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The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism

Posted by Zonk on from the struggling-for-relevancy dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "TG Daily has its weekly videogaming column up, and this week the author is attacking what he terms The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism. From the article: '...the formulaic, child-minded writing-for-the-lowest-common-marketing-denominator style that encapsulates 99% of the mainstream videogame press is a load of crap ... Rather than being critics who add to the industry as film and music journalists arguably did back in the heady days of the 50's - 70's... videogame journalists are mere extensions of the marketing machine, pushing even the most mediocre of games into a good light with the public in previews and then trashing them for sport to see how many good puns can be dredged out of the 500 words which the author really doesn't want to have to write.'"

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  1. Oh the sweet irony by koreaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Posting this on Slashdot, of all places...

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  2. Considering. by cornface · · Score: 3, Funny

    My first exposure to gaming magazines was Nintendo Power and Sega Visions when they first came out. Now _that_ was marketing influenced games journalism. hehe.

    1. Re:Considering. by Cutterex · · Score: 2, Funny
      I remember the moment when I decided to let my Nintendo Power subscription lapse. I had never really connected the dots until I opened to the "letter of the month", and the entire thing was:
      "Mario for president!!!!!"
  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. Re:Is this new? by SIGFPE · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a recovering audiophile

    So it's curable then? That's good to know. May your recovery be a complete one.
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  5. Re:has it always been this way? by Tim+Browse · · Score: 3, Funny
    Youll have to code them first, because they dont exist. Ditto the Half life 2 demo.

    You're so right. Luckily I'm a fucking red hot coder and have put together a Half-Life 2 demo for you here:

    http://www.ati.com/halflife2/index.html

    Don't mention it.

  6. Re:Almost got it right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Meet my friend. His name is Question Mark. He looks like this. ---->?---- When asking a question, be it rhetorical or not, he can usually be found at the end of it.