Is it me, or is the state of games news reporting absolutely terrible? All these so-called journalists ever seem to do is rewrite press releases. I remember a recent example involving a popular games site, where a previously unannounced game had appeared on a publisher's website. People were even talking about the release of the game on that site's forums. But the site's "news" section didn't even mention it until a month or so later, when the publisher issued a press release. It seems like they don't investigate anything beyond PR agencies.
What can you expect? Their audience is 12-25 year-olds that often have a very poor grasp of journalistic credibility.
Although sometimes they overreach themselves, The Escapist is pretty good for non-news game journalism. The major magazines and sites seem to have largely left the job of reporting latest news to blogs.
Needs more EDGE magazine.
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Edge is too far up its own arse these days. Anyway, as a magazine, all they're good for is reviews and features - magazines became obsolete for news a long time ago.
Games journalism is heinously anus
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I feel like most entertainment journalism is crap, like music journalism, or wrestling or food journalists. It seems like they are just people who maybe have a deeper interest in their hobby than most, and think it would be a good idea to get paid to write about their favourite hobby, rather than coming from an academic background, so it's often badly written, full of clichés and shallow observations
I sometimes get Retro Gamer magazine if there's a feature on a game I liked, but sometimes the writing makes me put the magazine down and roll my eyes and sigh
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I actually have the opposite view. I think games journalists are mostly those who come from an academic background (recent graduates who studied, like, journalism or something). Although I'm focusing mostly on reviews here - I tend to ignore gaming news.
I like to compare them to independent games reviewers like Matthewmatosis, Sseth or TheGamingBrit. They may not be professional journalists, but they're passionate about games and make an effort to understanding what makes them good/bad.
In one important way the independent reviewers are more trustworthy, since they often buy the game and play it through to the end while the journalists receive the game for free and play it for an hour or two at most.
You often get the sense the journalists don't play games much or even like to play them.
>games journalists are mostly those who come from an academic background
I'm not saying they don't exist, but I think it's a stretch to say "mostly". Maybe I'm just reading the wrong journalists.
If you're determining that by writing style, then they definitely are. The style they write articles in has changed – an attempt at staying relevant – but it's not unusual for more recent (past 10 or so years) graduates.
It is possible that I'm mistaken though, I am mostly going off of what I read/hear after all.