{"id":757,"date":"2007-09-06T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T16:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/06\/just-what-game-journalism-needed\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T19:01:23","slug":"just-what-game-journalism-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/06\/just-what-game-journalism-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Just What Game Journalism Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that gaming journalism wasn&#8217;t doing enough to serve the already dominant 16-25 male demographic. How can we do more to attract this underappreciated audience?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2007\/09\/the_triumphant_return_of_pcxl.php\">Why not revive the failed PC Accelerator magazine<\/a>, the lad-mag for nerds that stuck <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PC_Accelerator\">Stevie Case in sexy schoolteacher poses in 2000<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Because if there&#8217;s one thing this business has a desperate thirst for, it&#8217;s more frat boy humor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT<\/strong>: This issue in question is apparently a one-off, not a revival. Norman Chan, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\">PCGamer homepage<\/a>, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]his magazine is our report on gaming\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current cultural climate. This includes exposes on internet memes, game cakes, conventions, competitive gaming leagues, and as you can deduce from the cover, girls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chan does promise another issue if this one is well received, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that gaming journalism wasn&#8217;t doing enough to serve the already dominant 16-25 male demographic. How can we do more to attract this underappreciated audience? Why not revive the failed PC Accelerator magazine, the lad-mag for nerds that stuck Stevie Case in sexy schoolteacher poses in 2000? Because if there&#8217;s one thing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-cd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}