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Page Flippin’ : January 22, 2009
Welcome one and all to the first Page Flippin’ of 2009. Only one more year to go until the spaceship Alexei Leonov reaches Saturn, but I digress…
I received the February 2009 issue of Game Informer yesterday. GI continues to impress me with its editorial decisions. Not one page in this magazine feels like filler. And [...]
The New Print
Magazines are not dead, contrary to popular belief.
People think this because EGM died a tragic, horrible, unexpected death, but that’s just not the case. In fact, it was a sick old publication that had seen better days and suffered for years before the official, certified date from the coroner. It’s no secret I was never [...]
Videogame Hall of Fame Criteria – A Call to Arms
You know the section in Gamer Informer where they have a developer and reader list their top five games of all time? I’m always interested in reading not the games they select, but rather the range (or lack thereof) of eras in their selections. The January selection from reader Joshua Lopez was especial heavy on [...]
A Review Experiment
Today I was listening to the latest Giant Bomb Bombcast (which if you don’t already, you really should give it a listen), and I was struck by Jeff Gerstmann’s take on the new Sonic game, Sonic Unleashed. To paraphrase, he didn’t like it, and his reasoning behind that opinion was the game might not have [...]
Page Flippin’: December 22, 2008
For those who say, “print is dead,” I reply:
“…really?”
Just because Ziff-Davis is shuttering its remaining publications like CGW and PC Magazine, and the once-great Electronic Gaming Monthly, or EGM to you young-ins, is anemic to the point of flatlining, doesn’t mean it’s all doom-and-gloom for the rest. Page Flippin’ is going to be a somewhat-regular [...]
A PR Nightmare
Well if this isn’t the neatest idea I’ve seen in quite some time…
TechCrunch has waged war on PR firms and their increasingly disturbing trend of news embargoes. I applaud them for their position, but unless other blogs and publications band together for this, I see it as a lost cause and only hurting them in [...]
I May Not Even Understand What I Am Feeling When I Tell You
Shawn Elliott posted to his brand-spankin’ new blog a discussion with other members of the gaming press on the subject of reviews:
Prior to departing 1UP.com, I prepared two sections for a symposium that never got off the ground. Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal, WhatTheyPlay.com’s John Davison, and I agreed to generate questions for eight episodes.
I see what [...]
For Whom The Bell Curves
Leigh Alexander of Sexy Videogameland had a couple of choice nuggets to chew on:
When a title attempts to explore uncharted areas, it risks stumbling into areas that have been neglected for a good reason — because they don’t work as well. But when we fault them for trying, without recognizing that the game might have [...]
Doctor, Doctor, Give Me The News I’ve Got A Bad Case of Sequelitis
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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