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[impirius]

Thought you guys might find this oft-discussed topic as viewed through the eyes of the Slashdot crowd interesting.

The summary:

Kotaku has a piece up today mentioning a style of video game editorializing called The New Games Journalism. This piece links to several others. State Wiki has a piece from early this year on what New Games Journalism is, and an examination of its goals. An example of the style is available on the Eve Online site in the PC Gamer article All About Eve. (large pdf) A seminal work referenced when discussing the style is Bow, Nigger, a sharply written and gripping piece about a duel in Jedi Outcast. From the editorial: "For one thing, my screen name has nothing to do with my ethnicity and for another, it's only a game and the fascist doing the typing is probably hundreds of miles away and far beyond anything you could call an actual influence on my life. But still... It's not very nice is it?"

Some of the comments are, predictably, taking the whole thing a bit too seriously, but there are several interesting insights into what makes game journalism different than, say, film or music journalism.

(forgive me if this has already been posted; a quick search came up empty)

 

[DDayton]

I might be blind, but I don't see a link to the article anywhere...

 

[alex2004]

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/media-criticism/hemingway-and-new-game-journalism-027320.php

 

[Mr Mike]

This is old. OLD. Posted in March pre-forum reboot OLD. Also, it's massively pretentious and just plain wrong.

 

[impirius]

I might be blind, but I don't see a link to the article anywhere...

Haha, sorry.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/12/10/1612217.shtml?tid=166&tid=10

This is old. OLD. Posted in March pre-forum reboot OLD. Also, it's massively pretentious and just plain wrong.

The Slashdot article and discussion are of 2:30 yesterday. My fault for omitting the link, of course.

Massively pretentious? Yeah, the articles are. ("OMG TEH SEMINAL WORK") Just plain wrong? Nah... we could use a different way of looking at and writing about the games we play.

 

[8bit]

The Jedi Outcast story is fairly old, but the Kotaku article can't be that old as the site has only been running in public for a couple of months.

 

[BuddyC]

The methods of "New Journalism" have been around for quite a while. Just ask Tom Wolfe.

...And I see that one of the links goes ahead and acknowledges that.