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Fighting Games Weekly | July 15-21 | Post-EVO Pillow Talk

Lost Fragment said:
Don't pursue a journalism degree wtf. Get an English degree or something. Something you can use for other things if the journalism thing doesn't work out.
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Yeah and even then getting an English degree is like sketch too. In this day and age you can just open a blog up and talk shit and that's journalism
 
English degree probably isn't all that useful anymore, either, honestly.

full disclosure: I work for a newspaper. I don't have a journalism degree. Or a college degree at all.
 
I can tell you that as the family and friend of English majors, an English degree does not exactly open the door to many more careers than a Journalism degree would anyways.

Not my degree will end up being any better.
 
Karsticles said:
I would love to work as a FGC reporter full time, haha.
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Honestly: Pitch yourself. Email an editor at your website of choice with a sample of your work (or two) and let them know you wanna cover fighting game stuff if it pops up in their queue.

You will likely not get paid for this, however.

A lot of writers at gaming websites don't really have a lot of time to play the games they report on, much less play enough to have a very deep knowledge of the game's mechanics, much less the amount of knowledge needed to break down something like what happens in a high-level fighting game.

If you're able to cover that sorta stuff, make it readable, and you're essentially volunteering to do it, that's less stuff on their plate, at no cost to them. They'll probably consider it.
 
Karst trying to get FatboyRoberts fired.

Oh, you changed your name. Hey, Bobby.


Best bet as far as degrees go are probably any one of the STEM majors. Those never seem to go out of style. Of course, more important than any of that for getting a job out of college is who you know, your network, etc.
 
BobbyRoberts said:
Honestly: Pitch yourself. Email an editor at your website of choice with a sample of your work (or two) and let them know you wanna cover fighting game stuff if it pops up in their queue.

You will likely not get paid for this, however.

A lot of writers at gaming websites don't really have a lot of time to play the games they report on, much less play enough to have a very deep knowledge of the game's mechanics, much less the amount of knowledge needed to break down something like what happens in a high-level fighting game.

If you're able to cover that sorta stuff, make it readable, and you're essentially volunteering to do it, that's less stuff on their plate, at no cost to them. They'll probably consider it.
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In terms of samples, I've only ever written one web article (for IPW). But I have done this:
http://tinyurl.com/8x865ra

Do you think that is worth submitting?

El Sloth said:
Karst trying to get FatboyRoberts fired.

Oh, you changed your name. Hey, Bobby.
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I miss his old name.
 
BobbyRoberts said:
Honestly: Pitch yourself. Email an editor at your website of choice with a sample of your work (or two) and let them know you wanna cover fighting game stuff if it pops up in their queue.

You will likely not get paid for this, however.

A lot of writers at gaming websites don't really have a lot of time to play the games they report on, much less play enough to have a very deep knowledge of the game's mechanics, much less the amount of knowledge needed to break down something like what happens in a high-level fighting game.

If you're able to cover that sorta stuff, make it readable, and you're essentially volunteering to do it, that's less stuff on their plate, at no cost to them. They'll probably consider it.
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Congrats on losing weight.
 
That nickname was out-of-date about 6 or 7 years ago, really. Although if I keep gaining weight, I might end up earning it back.

Anyway - yeah, Karst, that should work. Or if you're worried that it might be too long/too detailed, include a shorter piece - it can be completely original, as well.

A lot of blog/web editors are basically playing this whole shit by ear just as much as the rest of the Fourth Estate is. If there's a niche, and you can convince them you can fill it, and that your filling it can bring extra eyeballs to the site? They'll probably agree to it. Entertainment writing/journalism (which is essentially what all games journalism is) is a little easier to break into than other forms of journalism.

Again - you're probably not going to get paid for it, and you're going to have to tailor your writing to hit an audience that is more than likely not anywhere near as well-versed in fighting games as you are.
 
Karsticles said:
That's because, in the current state of journalism, anyone can be a "journalist".

1) Receive a press release.
2) Copy-change the information.
3) Publish!

It's really sad. In games journalism, make it:
1) Read a GAF thread.
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As somebody who used to do news reporting for a videogame website that's only half true. Since every other website has access to the same press assets that you do, the only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is to:
1) Go for pure volume. I respect RawmeatCowboy because having to maintain 40+ RSS feeds for years is absolutely soul crushing and was the primary reason why I quit.
2) Fill a niche nobody else can. See the internet mourning when Anoop stopped updating Andriasang.
3) The opposite of 1). Pick and choose a few interesting topics and write longer-form reports. Schreier's in-depth Kotaku posts are always a good read.

It is a completely thankless position and the only time people tend to notice you is when you don't do a good job and start falling behind in the rat race.
 
In regards to KDZ. It seemed like he simply outplayed everyone. He had a solid zoning game and probably the best mix up game out of the players. Lastly, zoning was really strong in MK9 and given some of the testers (Reo, Tom Brady, Chris G and Art) it shouldn't be a surprise that zoning would be really strong in Injustice.
 
Lost Fragment said:
Don't pursue a journalism degree wtf. Get an English degree or something. Something you can use for other things if the journalism thing doesn't work out.
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There's always PR, human relations and teaching to fall back on. Those are my back up plans as a journalism major.
 
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";70708541]I'm rewatching the TVC EVO grand finals and god damn that game is ugly as sin.

Street Fighter EX status.[/QUOTE]

Hyperbole much? Just booted it up on my Wii with component cables and the game still looks really good.

Why is there no wave dashing though?:(
 
Enzo, I think you should add Mad Catz Unveiled to the OP. I think they might do exhibitions again. Spooky is streaming it on the Mad Catz Twitch channel. The event is on Thursday and start at 8pm PST.
 
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";70708541]I'm rewatching the TVC EVO grand finals and god damn that game is ugly as sin.

Street Fighter EX status.[/QUOTE]

:(

I think it looks great up-ressed on Dolphin but honestly it could look like Killer Instinct and I wouldn't care b/c it has Ken the Eagle.

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I give a lot of credit to Kotaku for covering EVO and helping us get to 140+k concurrent viewers.
They might not be a hundred on their info, but any positive news about the FGC is good for the community.
 
jbug617 said:
Enzo, I think you should add Mad Catz Unveiled to the OP. I think they might do exhibitions again. Spooky is streaming it on the Mad Catz Twitch channel. The event is on Thursday and start at 8pm PST.
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Please tell me it's not more killer instinct.
 
Banananana said:
I give a lot of credit to Kotaku for covering EVO and helping us get to 140+k concurrent viewers.
They might not be a hundred on their info, but any positive news about the FGC is good for the community.
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That destructoid article about the FGC was so positive its sunshine blinded me
 
JDdelphin said:
Man, I don't want to make work for you- but if there's no archive or anything, and as one of the apparently few who care- would you mind giving a mini rundown of how the sfxt tourney went?
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There's an archive. check out twitch.tv/karastorm for all the pools he streamed. i'm pretty sure he has them in the archive. If not, you can tweet him. Pool play was great though, tons of awesome matches.

alstein said:
Proud of Jibbo finally getting a top 8, he's been plugging away for a long time. I think he might be done now though.
He really had a ton of knowledge and shared it.
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Jibbo has said he's not done playing the game, as I recall. I think he was mostly mad at himself for letting Valle get the win on him.
 
-tetsuo- said:
This weekend just confirmed Justin as the best Marvel player.
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It confirmed in my mind that he "could be" if he really wanted to be and put in the work.

I don't think there is much doubt that if he used Flocker's team and practiced hard, he would be better than Flocker. But he doesn't so he isn't.
 
I love coming in the topic and every week and seeing people talk about a new VSav and Marvel patch like they're going to happen. You guys need to find something new to do.

Also, did FChamp reveal the "secret" tech he was talking about. I think I caught up on most of the matches but I didn't see anything different.
 
In the Gootecks interview Justin seemed really moved by the crowd rooting for him. Yeah, no way he's gonna switch teams....
 
EarlyEarly said:
I love coming in the topic and every week and seeing people talk about a new VSav and Marvel patch like they're going to happen. You guys need to find something new to do.
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For this week at least, a marvel patch is much more likely given the CapCup. At least if there is some success, you would expect them to keep supporting it.
 
Seasoned Badger said:
Does anyone still have the total entries for each game and the game entry fee??
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Math says this

SF4 1601 entries = $16,100
1. 5796
2. 3542
3. 1610
4. 1288
5. 1127
7. 805

Marvel 1297 entries = $12,970
1. 4669.20
2. 2853.40
3. 1297
4. 1037.60
5. 907.90
7. 648.50

Eventhubs has numbers, you have to go all the way to the bottom before the comment section.

1. SSF4 AE v2012 - 1,601 players
2. UMvC3 - 1,297 players
3. Smash - 696 players
4. Injustice - 582 players
5. SFxT - 545 players
6. KoF13 - 433 players
7. P4A - 400 players
8. TTT2 - 355 players
9. MK9 - 233 players
 
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