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Earlier last year, video games journalist Kieron Gillen made the rally call to change games journalism from less focused on graphics and scores to experiences that could only be experienced in the virtual world. He called it New Games Journalism. New Games Journalism has infected the internet more than it has print mags. Sites like insertcredit with writers like Tim Rogers GET IT, and it's good reading.
I have never heard of the game Eve until I read the Big Scam, but I want to. The article makes the word probably more compelling than it actually is, with the promises of high stakes swindles and pirateering. I'm surprised that print journalism doesn't do more stories like this. With the advent of more massively multiplayer games and non-linear sandboxing, it seems to me that gamers have a lot more to say about their gaming experience.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
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That was pretty cool, but I also think the print review of Eve in this magazine made the game sound good as well. Not quite the same epic story, but I enjoy reading reviews like that.
Just to note that that GAMER feature wasn't actually a review - more of an overview feature, and ran about a year or so after Eve launched.
KG
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