SubscribeUPDATE: Apparently bad news doesn’t come in fives, they come in threes x 2. Kudos to 1UP for going forward with a story that started out as a potential gag on NeoGAF. The story involves “Da Man” Jeff Bell, Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing, Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft (let me repeat that for [...]
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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 [...]
1UP Needs a Chaperone
I had made a comment how 1UP.com, the web entity of the Ziff Davis Game Group, seemed like “the inmates are running the prison”. After making 1UP a daily read, especially in the past week, I can now say for certain that my comment is correct.
I initially gave 1UP too much credit (no pun intended). [...]
The Lester Bangs of Video Games is Under Our Noses
I’ve been kicking around a response to the uproar that was Chuck Klosterman’s article, “The Lester Bangs of Video Games“. Poor Chuck. He was misunderstood. All he wanted to do was jump on the video game criticism bandwagon. Hell, if Hillary Clinton can put it on her agenda, and with legislators carrying out their witch [...]
Hey Cool, Someone Agrees with Me!
I just wanted to give props to myself for having the foresight to request a next-gen continuation of the Colony Wars franchise. 1UP’s 1UP Yours Podcast this week said the same thing.
Next time I’m in town, you guys are buying!
Journalism or Plagarism?
Okay, call it a coincidence but I’m really starting to suspect my blog is acting as fodder for “original” news stories on other blogs and online pubs. For instance, I wrote yesterday how this summer is a drought for videogaming, and surprisingly Joystiq, a day later, echoes the same sentiments without naming their source of [...]
E3 2006 – Leftovers and Wrap-up
Everyone is talking like Gears of War is going to be as good as it was intended, which ends up being good for gamers, but does anyone else think that Cliff Bleszinski gets a free ride from the gaming press? Sure he hangs with porn stars, highlights his hair and acts like a rock star, [...]
E3 2006 – Musings from Day 1.0
I’m surprised we didn’t see any announcement from Microsoft regarding a larger hard drive. If the last couple days are any indication, we sorely need it. Especially those poor users who have Final Fantasy IX installed on their hard drives. All two of them.
Another surprising no-show is the alliance between Microsoft and DirecTV. Maybe Microsoft [...]
E3 2006 – Thoughts from the Pre-Show
Lumines Live will be the next Geometry Wars.
Did anyone catch that the Halo 3 demo was done with Xbox 360 hardware? They actually had the demo realtime behind closed doors. Pretty sweet.
G4 sucks. Officially. Again. Kevin Pereira is an annoying talking head that needs to be fragged, Doom-style. His smiling mug wants to make me [...]
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