Tag Archives: criticism

Dec
18
2008

The Game Review Symposium: Review Scores

The first part of the game review symposium is now up and covers the topic of the scores attached to game reviews. You can find it here: http://shawnelliott.blogspot.com/2008/12/symposium-part-one-review-scores.html.
If there was any doubt about the usefulness of the symposium before I think the responses to this first part alone should quiet those — though I’d be [...]

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Dec
12
2008

The Game Review Symposium

Before he left his post at Ziff-Davis’ gaming publications (namely Games for Windows Magazine followed by EGM/1Up) Shawn Elliott was one of the best journalists in the game industry. His works at GfW Magazine were always some of the most well-articulated and reasoned pieces to be found in the industry. Elliott’s “claim to fame” in [...]

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Dec
05
2008

The Death of the Death of Game Criticism

Supposedly, there’s a problem with game journalism (part one). It’s worth pointing out that if you have an article entitled “The Problem with Games Journalism,” then the tagline of your site best not be “Independent game journalism.”
Yesterday, Kotaku published a piece by the site’s Managing Editor, Brian Crecente which is entitled: “Death of Criticism: The [...]

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