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A few weeks ago there was a post on Bitmob regarding the hardships of "breaking into" the game industry and how it finally got said person to finally call it quits. This is about why I still have hope in this one day being a viable way to make a living for me.

Games have a history and legacy like any medium - reviews should respect this. Our individual reactions to games are all that matter. Reviews are not press releases!

Click to find out why there is such a disconnect with video game journalism with other mainstream journalism fields and with gamers.

I always believed journalism required extensive research and objective views, but even CNN has thrown this out the window for fanboyism. In the spirit of "journalism nouveau" let's also invent words, such as 'fanboyism'. Insert troll face thumbnail here.

Is it necessary to be passionate about videogames in the industry?

A review embedded within a life lesson. A gamer struggles with his need to write.

What a review should be as a oppose to what most want them to be.

I discus the problem in gaming journalism, and how it effects the readers.

British tabloid The Daily Star published and has since pulled and apologized for an article regarding a fake Grand Theft Auto video game based on real shootings and will pay damages to the series’ publisher which will be donating the money to charity. Writer Jerry Lawton’s article was based on a mock-up of box art he found depicting a GTA game based in Rothbury following the events of the manhunt to apprehend Raoul Moat, a man who shot three people including a police officer, killing one, and eventually committing suicide. Lawton presented the game as being real despite only having a mock-up of box art to back up his story.

Are we doing our jobs as critics? Maybe. Is the consumer doing his part as a consumer? Likely not. See how a simple sentence can change a consumer's view on video games, their reviews, and possibly more.

Another one? How many more of these guys are coming here? (A shameful attempt at an introduction.)

Gerren LaQuint Fisher shares a very rare personal account of not going through on a story and the resulting guilt and personal lessons learned from trying to determine a personal purpose.

Could the quality of video game journalism have anything to do with how self-contained the field is? When a small number of sites and publications comprise the entirety of game journalism, and they all compete for audience, is there room for true growth or risk taking, especially when no one can afford to rock the boat?

Covering games on the Internet my words are often the first thing people see of me. I am constantly aware that, for a new visitor reading my work on this site (or any of the others that I contribute to), expressing myself as clearly as possible is a priority. Dyslexia makes this process hard.

"Is Print Dead?" A panel of game journalists with experience including both print and online tackled the subject Saturday during a PAX East panel aptly titled "The Death of Print."

In the current explosion of journalistic activity, thanks to blogging, twitter, etc., the whole idea of journalism class seems less than useless.

Michael Lenoch describes the lack of solid topics in writing about video games.

Does the enthusiast press have a sexism problem? Or is it the audience that's sexist?

While film critics are easily impressed with striking visuals, video game critics focus on gameplay to offer more substantive reviews.