Everyone likes prizes. Even the silly ones like “Best Mainstream Magazine Games Writer, Sponsored by Ubisoft”. Yes, the British Games Media Awards are still sponsored by the people that the media covers. Congrats to Tom Francis of PC Gamer UK who picked up Best Specialist Writer – Print Division, i.e., “best writer who works for […]
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Improving Wargames
October 4th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Design, Media, Wargames
IGN’s Steve Butts is one of the last wargamers at a major game media site. (Before his departure from 1up, Jeff Green and I were in negotiations over how I could contribute there since Grognard God Geryk is too busy for that sort of thing. That may be a dead letter at this point.) In […]
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The Media Loves Spore
September 22nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Electronic Arts, Maxis, Media
I’ll have more to say once my review gets uploaded, but I wonder if Spore isn’t the biggest PC title ever released. It will certainly be dismissed by a lot of hardcore gamers, but it has been written about in all the major newspapers, many important newsblogs, and has been getting extended coverage in all […]
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Spore Aftershocks
September 8th, 2008 · 16 Comments · Electronic Arts, Maxis, Media
I was going to write a bit about the confusing world of Spore as seen through the gaming media, but, as of this morning, it looks like I’ll be reviewing it. So, I regret reading as much as I have about the game, from Seth Schiesel’s distinction between toy and game (a familiar distinction the […]
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The Old Man and the EA
September 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · CGW, Electronic Arts, Media
Jeff Green has been writing about computer games for a very long time. But given the closure of his magazine last year and the continual flood of journalistic talent running to the development side of the industry, his leaving Ziff Davis to join EA and work on The Sims shouldn’t be surprising. He’s always been […]
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I Think This is the Wrong Word
July 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Industry, Media
People who know me know that I love words and language. I’m not one of those people who gets all uptight about the misuse of the word “ironic” or who loves archaisms, but I do mourn the transition of meaning for “begging the question” and I read Fowler’s English Usage for fun. When Variety uses […]
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