The first stop in Shawn Elliott’s Game Review symposium is up at N’Gai Croal’s Level Up blog. EDIT: Full transcript at Shawn Elliott’s blog.
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This Week in Bad Opening Sentences
December 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on This Week in Bad Opening Sentences · Media
From Charles Oynett’s review of Rise of the Argonauts at IGN: The fusion of elements from the role-playing and action genres isn’t a new one. It’s part of the foundation of the ancient Greek epic poetry on which Liquid Entertainment’s Rise of the Argonauts is based. Why do people write things like this? I mean, […]
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Best Games Writing of 2008
December 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Best Games Writing of 2008 · Media
I always debate whether I should do an article like this, especially now that the Pulitzer committee will accept online journalism for consideration. Simon Parkin at Chewing Pixels, however, has no problem highlighting the pieces he has enjoyed this year. Part 1 is up today. I’ll let you know when he’s done.
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The Symposium is On
December 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Media
A couple of days ago, I pointed you to some questions Shawn Elliott was going to pose to a symposium on game reviews that never quite got off the ground. Well, it’s on. And he has gathered some of the best and most interesting writers in the business. My respect for Tom Chick, Kieron Gillen […]
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Reviewing, Criticizing and Games Media
December 1st, 2008 · 12 Comments · Blogs, Media
This year has seen a lot of chest baring and sackcloth wearing about the differences between reviews and criticism in game journalism. I’m from the school that says not all reviews are criticism and not all criticism is a review, but that the best of both have elements have each. In other words, a great […]
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Red Alert 3 Smackdown
November 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Media, RTS
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has linked to a debate between a hardcore RTS player and PCGamer/Gamesradar RTS reviewer Dan Stapleton. The short version is that Stapleton gave Red Alert 3 a very positive review but AGMLauncher at Game Replays finds the review too short and uninformative. From what is written, AGMLauncher judges that Stapleton is unqualified […]
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