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 Send to email | Making the Case for Games Journalism [Journalism] in Journalism Criticism Industry |  By Maggie Greene
el 23-Nov-2008 |  Game journalism is a pretty maligned corner of the journalism world as a whole — sometimes for good reason, but as Gus Mastrapa argues, we're not really deserving of the broad brush we get painted with. Why, he even points to Kotaku as a 'sure sign that we've arrived'! Games journalism doesn't lag behind many other enthusiast presses, he says, despite their advantage of age:
When I browse my RSS reader everyday, I'm consistently impressed by the quality and originality of the reporting being done by the video game press. I say this not only as a member of the gaming press but as a fan. In addition to all the games reporting I read as part of my job (and to sate my love of games as a hobby) I also read tons of news about movies, music and television. I can honestly say that games are covered just as well, if not better, than other forms of entertainment. Don't go thinking that those guys writing about movies are that much more serious about journalism just because their medium has been around fifty years longer. My RSS feed was rife with rumors and speculation about the casting and plot of the next Batman movie, despite the fact that not a single iota of work has been done on the sequel. Rumors that Johnny Depp would play the Riddler were carried by respectable newspapers around the world. Games aren't the only medium that feed this kind of reporting. If anything, the fact that we have an organization as capable and agile as Kotaku to keep tabs on this kind of thing is a sure sign that we've arrived.
Of course, the first comment on the article heartily disagrees (surprise!); I think it's healthy and necessary to do some self-criticism of where we do go wrong, but it's always nice to read well-reasoned pieces on what we do right, as well. The Case For Games Journalism [GameDaily via GameSetWatch]
 
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| Making the Case for Games Journalism [Journalism] | | Game journalism is a pretty maligned corner of the journalism world as a whole — sometimes for good reason, but as Gus Mastrapa argues, we're not really deserving of the broad brush we get painted with. Why, he even points to Kotaku as a 'sure sign that we've arrived'! Games [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Nov-2008 by Maggie Greene in Journalism Criticism Industry
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| 'CliffyB' on How to Save Game Journalism [Criticism] | | The blog Hardcasual is back with a bang after a lengthy hiatus, channeling the voice of Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games (which, if you can't parse that statement, means Bleszinski didn't actually write this) to discuss some of the current problem with game journalism and reviews. [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Dec-2008 by Maggie Greene in Criticism cliff bleszinski Cliffy B Culture Journalism Parody
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| The Undergrads Are Our Future [Note] | | To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Neat or Not? I drove up to Boulder today to speak to a journalism class about new media and old media and media in general. Mostly it was a walkthrough of how I got from point A to point B. Point A being a career in dead tree publications and point B being Kotaku. Lots of questions about what a person should do to get a job in journalism, to which a [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Dec-2008 by Brian Crecente in Note day note
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| Do Games Really Qualify As 'Escapist'? [Design] | | Ian Bogost and his students have a new project underway looking at the intersection of journalism and games; their new blog is full of interesting stuff. This week saw a thought-provoking post on the issue of escapism and games by Simon Ferrari — do games reall [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Nov-2008 by Maggie Greene in design Cinema Film Game Design Industry
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| Is LBP Web 2.0 For Games Fulfilled? [LittleBigPlanet] | | Simon Carless, publisher of Gamasutra and one of my favorite people in the world of gaming journalism, contents that LittleBigPlanet is Web 2.0 for games fulfilled — and makes a pretty persuasive argument for why it may be so. Of course, he's basing this [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Oct-2008 by Maggie Greene in LittleBigPlanet media molecule Playstation 3 PS3 User Generated Content Web 2.0
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| Considering the BusinessWeek Arcade [Indie Games] | | We mentioned the somewhat odd BusinessWeek Arcade back when it launched; now Ian Bogost has taken up the whys and wherefores over at the Journalism & Games Project blog. The titles selected for BusinessWeek Arcade had little to do with business, being a collecti [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Dec-2008 by Maggie Greene in Indie games Businessweek Culture Journalism Serious Games
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