The word is slowly creeping through the Internet, but it is now official, I guess. Computer Games Magazine and MMO Games are no more, killed by TheGlobe.com. It was a sudden death, but don’t believe people who say those are the easy ones. This wasn’t because the magazine was in any financial trouble, or was […]
Entries Tagged as 'Media'
Be at one with the hivemind
February 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Media
Apparently somebody thinks video game journalists need a style guide to keep things consistent from one publication to the next. David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinberg have teamed up to give the gaming media its own manual of style, including, it appears, deciding that, per the title, video game is one word, and not […]
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Things Heard While Watching the Oscars
February 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Industry, Media, Movies
All from my lovely and brilliant wife, who is sadly out of step with the Arts page of the New York Times. “Dreamgirls is a musical?” “What is Apocalypto? I’ve never heard of that.” “There was a movie about Marie Antoinette?” “Remind me what else Martin Scorcese has done.” “Who is that?” (Repeatedly when new […]
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Vox Populi
February 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Gamers, Media
The “user review” is standard at gaming websites now. This means you don’t just have an “expert opinion” argued by one of their writers or freelancers, you get a rating derived from how an army of gamers evaluated the game and a few brief reviews from some of these same people. 1up, IGN, Gamerankings…all have […]
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How a magazine is put together
February 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Media
I am listening to more and more podcasts as I work, and one of the better ones is done by the Gamers With Jobs. The newest one has GFW Editor in Chief Jeff Green as a special guest star and it has some insight into why a casual game made their Top Ten list, the […]
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Pro-G gets a do-over on EU3
February 2nd, 2007 · 6 Comments · Media, Paradox, Review
A few days ago, I linked to the Pro-G review of Europa Universalis III – a review that was unsatisfactory for its bare understanding of the game. After Paradox PR applied pressure to the editor, they got a new review with a more positive impression to be a “second opinion”. Then both reviews were averaged […]
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