New Games Journalism: Ten Unmissable Articles 50
The excellent gamesblog at the Guardian has been doing pieces of late on the phenomenon known as New Games Journalism (a topic we've mentioned here in the past). They have an article listing ten unmissable pieces of New Games Journalism, articles that help to define the genre. From the article: "This is a varied bunch, but I think what connects them is emotion, insight, and often a narrative rather than methodical structure. Whatever, just read and enjoy."
Good idea. (Score:1)
Re:Good idea. (Score:1)
Having said that I've certainly enjoyed many of these stories. I value them, but I also value "old" Gaming Journalism, the kind that presents facts and opinions in a structured format that's easily digestible and more, IMHO, credible.
Re:Good idea. (Score:1, Informative)
1. The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts.
2. Material written for publication in a newspaper or magazine or for broadcast.
3
The Great Scam (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The Great Scam (Score:3, Interesting)
It happens all the times in games, you get cheated a couple hundred (virtual)
Re:The Great Scam (Score:2)
Starting from scratch without even understanding how you are supposed to play the game I could generate a million isk in 15 minutes transporting some crappy trading goods.
The problem was it just isn't fun to click 'buy' type in a number, click 'set destination', drag something to you cargo hold, click 'launch', click 'autopilot', wait 15 minutes, click 'dock', drag something from your cargo hold, click 'sell'. And repeat.
Playing 5c poke
Re:The Great Scam (Score:1)
The problem I have is that he said he was making like 30 mil in some situations and it would only take a little while to hit 300 mil and he wouldn't have to be an ass in the mean time.
Maybe someone can clear this up if I'm wrong.
Re:The Great Scam (Score:2, Interesting)
He said it would take him 30 minutes to earn 500,000.
Besides, this was an incredibly good piece of writing. It's not journalism - it's short fiction that is better than 95% of what you read in the years best Sci Fi anthologies. It was EXCELLENT. Some of the lines in there are ones I will remember forever - "They came like the Persions into thermopylea."
Re:The Great Scam (Score:1)
Re:The Great Scam (Score:2, Interesting)
they're essentially just writing about their gaming experiences from a first-person perspective, throwing in lots of imaginary detail.
no, really. that's it. that's you're revolution in games "journalism".
i miss the days when gaming was the province of computer nerds only. it was a dark day for our hobby when the
Re:The Great Scam (Score:1)
For example, 'Bow, Nigger' could be about him playing any game online and seeing the same thing that ocurred. It really isn't game specific, it's just another anecdote from a different persective.
All this 'movement' really involves is good writers writing abo
Re:The Great Scam (Score:1)
"You would then sell these pebbles for approximately the same price that an illiterate slave would have received for an ounce of cotton."
Come on. I mean, I know about hyperbole, but this doesn't even make sense. At least slashsons check their idioms before they post, if only for fear of being ridiculed.
Well here they are: (Score:5, Informative)
A Rape in Cyberspace [juliandibbell.com]
Possessing Barbie [alwaysblack.com]
Dreaming in an empty room: a defense of Metal Gear Solid 2 [insertcredit.com]
Shoot Club: Saving Private Donny [quartertothree.com]
ZangbandTK: Confessions of a Dungeon Hack [alwaysblack.com]
The Great Scam [circa1984.com]
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [edge-online.co.uk]
Going Planetside [cream.org]
Red Eye #114 [thetriforce.com]
Sex in Games: Rez + Vibrator [gamegirladvance.com]To Be Specific... (Score:3, Funny)
From A Rape in Cyberspace
"A good many months ago -- let's say about halfway between the first time you heard the words information superhighway and the first time you wished you never had --"
I stuttered before I even finished this sentence, as, for o
Re:To Be Specific... (Score:2)
Re:To Be Specific... (Score:1)
But on the other hand, this is the first I've heard of Ian Shanahan's, work. I'm glad to have seen their links to his two stories, because they were both terrific.
"unmissable"? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:"unmissable"? (Score:1)
The worst part is that Slashdot bills them as "Ten Unmissable Articles". When I hear that I think about these [cornell.edu] you insensitive clods!
That said, I especially love the vibrator one which I could have sworn I saw bef--oh wait, it was linked from here. [slashdot.org]
Re:"unmissable"? (Score:2, Funny)
insert credit (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:insert credit (Score:2, Insightful)
(Dear God. I remembered my password.)
Re:insert credit (Score:2)
I use more commas.
Re:insert credit (Score:2)
Is there really anything new here? (Score:3, Interesting)
I mean, are these article and the rest of the "new" gaming literature really great, or just great by comparison? And will game criticism and reviews ever get a forum like the New York Review of Books or the prestigious film commentary journals?
Re:Is there really anything new here? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is there really anything new here? (Score:2)
I read a couple of them and I was left thinking about stuff outside of the game. Stuff like morals, reality vs. perception, online personas, and all that sort of stuff.
**RANT TO BEGIN**
This sort of "journalism" is useless. These stories would better serve as posts on a website as part of a conversation rather than a serious discussion about philosophical aspects of a game. If
Re:Is there really anything new here? (Score:1)
Re:Please... (Score:1)
Re:Please... (Score:4, Informative)
And the infamous Asheron's Call Beta Log [oldmanmurray.com]. This was amazing. Pretty much sums up MMMMMPORPPRPPRPPGS.
Re:Please... (Score:1)
A Helpful Tool (Score:2)
http://www.proliphus.com/yws/peywsnews.php [proliphus.com]
A poor attempt at NGJ (Score:2)
If you want a short poor attempt injecting some NGJ into a review, try Zonk's review of Burnout 3 [slashdot.org].
At the time, I thought the paragraph about the crash was a cringe-worthy attempt at NGJ. After re-reading it, I still do.
MGS2 is still a bad game. (Score:1)
Tim Rogers (Score:2, Interesting)
For one, the article single-handedly convinced me to play through MGS2 in its entirety, looking at what I originally considered to be a hopelessly mangled story from a fresh perspective, and it instantly went from being one of my least favorite games to my second favorite game of all time (right behind the absolutely uparalleled ICO).
Second, the article introduced me to Tim Rogers, who
Re:Tim Rogers (Score:1)
My favorite Tim Rogers piece was in - on-topicly enough - Journalism: the Videogame [insertcredit.com].
Though, the only bad thing about that is how he babbles about how his Animal Crossing review [insertcredit.com] was sooooo cool compared to that other writing. That article actually reminded me a lot about Doug the Eagle's anti-walkthroughs and silliness [it-he.org].
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There Article (Score:2)
A much better article on There is available here [neonowl.net], though it has been featured on Slashdot in the past [slashdot.org].
"they're just games, for f*ck's sake"? (Score:2, Interesting)
Some of these articles seemed* marred by overly confusing writing, some were a wee bit too self-indulgent (I don't really want to hear all about your living situation, and maybe I don't fully understand how gaming can be a lifestyle), but I do like the idea: depict one possible narrative out of the many that a game might provide in cooperation with its
If you liked "Confessions of a Dungeon Hack"... (Score:1)
Here's another interesting take on dungeon hacking. This one's based on nethack.
You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes [everything2.com]
You'll laugh. You'll cry. It's (arguably) postmodern. And it's only one page long.