Video-game blogs are a bizarre entity in gaming journalism. Since they're merely blogs, they don't necessarily follow the same standards for journalistic integrity and responsibility as print and online publications would. Still, what if an actual magazine used their style of reporting? It would probably look something like this [via Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits]:
Clever.
No subjective list of top/best/most/least?
haha ! well isn't that just precious
The Future Publishing logo on the bottom-right is a little below the belt, but not entierly undeserving.
This magazine needs more fanboy articles, and a Call of Duty vs. Halo expose.
I love it!. Gaming blogs consist of too much non-news.
Love it.
There are times when I wish I could have the salary of every Kotaku writer published for all to see, so that I could accurately gauge whether or not, even in the face of parodies like these, whether I would still write for them given half a chance. It sure might beat my day job.
But then, I also learned that one of the video game journalists who I respect the most, and who I had the priviledge of drinking beers with last night, has a day job. I never would have guessed it...but it also was a very heartening thing to realize. It means that some people do write about video games for the love of the medium, and of writing, and not just to pay the bills.