FortNinety
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Here's a pretty interesting editorial on video game journalism....
http://www.statelovesyou.com/wiki/?ViewStateItem&item=a95
It's a bit long, but I encourage everyone to read it. Here's an excerpt:
http://www.statelovesyou.com/wiki/?ViewStateItem&item=a95
It's a bit long, but I encourage everyone to read it. Here's an excerpt:
There's also all sorts of games writers who don't give a toss about the craft of what they're doing, either having completely forgotten why they were doing it in the first place after being stomped by their superiors or never really had a clue in the first place. In many ways, it's these people rather than the money-men who are the enemies. The money-men as their name suggests are only interested in money. That's fine. It's like objecting that a Tyrannosaurus Rex doesn't chomp down on tofu. The mediocre hacks filling positions that could be taken by people wanting to write brilliantly are what will kill the British games magazine. Not that they're bad people, you understand many are utterly lovely. It's just that they're wasting the potential of the form with their total lack of commitment and/or talent.