Turns out all these holiday releases do more than give us all sore thumbs, they’ve inspired a slew of bloggers to critique the people who are critiquing all those AAA titles, especially when so many are falling in the love-it-or-hate-it bin. I’ve been on this bandwagon before, and I’m also at it again, but let’s [...]
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Category: Media
Thirty Hours in Thirty Seconds
Here’s another hypothetical review: Bill: I’ve really been looking forward to Mass Effect 2 for a long time, and now that it’s finally here I feel a little bit underwhelmed. The first game had its share of problems with the dialog options, despite trying something different from the typical branching conversations found in other RPGs. [...]
Game of the Month
What if all movie reviews were like this? After nearly 20 years of anticipation, George Lucas finally whets the appetite of millions of fanboys worldwide with the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to theaters everywhere. Although this latest installment has it’s share of issues, it proves absence makes the heart grows [...]
Review Scores Confidential
On the latest Player One Podcast episode, CJ, Greg and Phil discussed the news that Joe Rybicki, in his review for PS3′s Warhawk, noted if the price of the PSN version was above $30 to drop the review score one point. This turned into a debate about whether game reviewers should factor a game’s pricepoint [...]
Cut ‘em Some Slack, Jack
I admit I’ve been hard on 1UP in the past. And let’s face it – when your magazines are anemic to the risk of becoming pamphlets, your site loads ten percent of the time, your employees are foul-mouthed, attention-grabbing alcoholics, and you cheat legitimate prize winners out of their copy of Thrillville (really); well, you [...]
Brother, Can You Spare A Marketplace Point?
The recent David Jaffe gaffe was discussed on a recent PlayerOne Podcast episode, and the question was asked whether reviewers should take a game’s price into consideration when judging its content. The hosts said many times reviewers receive copies of games for free, and so they might not have the same perspective as the average [...]
0 Lives Left
It’s no secret I hate 1UP. To be fair, there are a few genuinely respectable people employed among the crew of “professional” bloggers, alcoholics, and general miscreants; if, by miscreants I mean people who don’t credit sources and call the kettle black for competitors doing the same, attacking interviewees without respect to them, and just [...]
The Bobs are Here
Boy would I love to be a fly on the wall during the Ziff Davis Game Group takeover and transition meetings. As anyone who reads this blog knows, I hate 1UP.com. Its conversational editorial style has been showing up in its printed publications more and more each month, to the point they lack any journalistic [...]
Thanks for the Memories
It’s always great to see something good happen to someone I genuinely admire, yet it’s equally tough to let someone go. This is the case with Gamespot Editor-in-Chief Greg Kasavin, someone with whom I’ve grown old during what has been the most influential and prolific ten years the gaming industry has ever seen. Greg has [...]
This Much Is True
There is a lot of conjecture regarding the negative press on the PS3′s launch in North America, and even Japan to an extent. And there have been those who have defended the PS3 launch despite the speculation because of the lack of substantial evidence in its favor. Well, it’s weird that over the course of [...]