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Designer Looks at Wiis Shortcomings

2008-10-30 22:56:51 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...GameSetWatch theres an article today from game designer Brice Morrison, who takes a look at the Wii and its successes and failures. Its the second of a two part series. The first part focused on what the Wii did right, and the second part takes it to task for its shortcomings. The initial article is your typical pro-Wii fare youve read...
 
Tags: play wii tennis, wii tennis, wii, wii remote, typical pro-wii fare, initial article, article, incredible exploratory experience, influential games console
 
 
 
 
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Police Search for Gamer Ends

2008-10-29 23:58:59 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...gamer Brandon Crisp up to speed. It seems the police have decided to end their search for the runaway 15 year old after roughly two weeks of searching Weve exhausted our search in the area. Were going to look through our tips and make a determination of where else to look We didnt find [Brandon] and that means theres a potential likelihood...
 
Tags: police, gamer brandon crisp, brandon, xbox live account, enable police, foul play, hard drive, microsoft canada, potential likelihood
 
 
 
 
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Hey, Game Festivals - Target the Consumer!

2008-10-29 23:55:01 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...GamesIndustry.biz recently dropped a piece examining the state of games festivals, specifically decrying the fact that these conventions are typically industry-only events that dont speak to consumers, representing a failure by the industry to grow up and look outside of itself. He lists some exceptions to the rule (PAX, TGS), but goes on to...
 
Tags: interactive entertainment industry, industry, industry-only events, festivals, london games festival, festival, london, fahey, rob fahey
 
 
 
 
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Journalists Speak on Games and Hype

2008-10-28 21:44:43 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...Gamer drops his latest installment in his Press Pass column, in which he rounds up comments from games journalists who discuss their feelings on the impact pre-release hype has on review scores for blockbuster and heavily promoted titles The general consensus is that pre-release hype does affect game review scores, with some games affected...
 
Tags: hype, impact pre-release hype, pre-release hype, intense hype, games, release, press pass column, crispy gamer, game
 
 
 
 
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Game Politics Analyzes Missing Gamer Story

2008-10-28 20:21:13 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...Gamer Watch here for a minute, for the sake of missing young gamer Brandon Crisp The 15 year old youth recently disappeared from his home near Toronto on October 13th, following a bike ride to what he told his mother would be nearby Oro-Medonte Township. Since then, Brandon has not shown up, and his bike was found 8 km northeast of his home....
 
Tags: brandon crisp, brandon, gamer brandon crisp, xbox, story, xbox live fan, barrie police service, recently, youth recently
 
 
 
 
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Consumers, Writers Speak Out on Games Journalism

2008-10-24 17:57:07 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...Gamer or members of the press Heres an excerpt from one such Perspective I think its safe to assume and Shoe and Crispin are getting some sense of personal satisfaction out of their blog. They should feel good; theyre asking people to actively think and question the world around them. What theyre doing on their blog is real journalism:...
 
Tags: sore thumbs blog, blog, sore thumbs, reader, reader perspectives, media, crispin, shoe, media interacts
 
 
 
 
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Tecmo Admits to Pampering Press With Girls, Brings Out More Girls to Make Point

2008-10-15 23:57:56 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...game studios. And those studios and their respective publishers will usually entertain these editors dinner, drinksthe usual. But I guess flying into strange, alien lands deserves high-end hospitality, so Tecmo in the past has treated their American journalist guests to evenings out at Japanese hostess bars, watering holes where women are...
 
Tags: tecmo, tecmo cheerleaders, press, editors, editors dinner, party throwers, sore thumbs, american editors, publisherpress relations dirt
 
 
 
 
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GameCritics Revises Reviews Process, Adds Disclosures

2008-10-14 23:45:41 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
Games review site GameCritics has contacted VGMWatch to inform us of modifications to their reviews structure that reflect their concerns over the state of the games industry in the wake of such highly-publicized debacles as Gerstmann-gate. The site will now include a disclosure concerning the origin of the review copy they received and the...
 
Tags: sore thumbs, sore thumbs blog, media, gamecritics, video game media, video game industry, questionable business practices, random site, anonymous account holder
 
 
 
 
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Shoes Behind the Scenes Part 5

2008-09-29 23:58:56 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...games industry, and this latest continues the trend of some swell revealing tidbits and accompanying thought provoking considerations about how journalists should conduct themselves, and what constitutes crossing the line of professionalism In this edition of the series Shoe speaks again on press perks provided by publishers. specifically how...
 
Tags: baseball game, free baseball game, baseball game invitations, game, sore thumbs blog, journalists, current journalists, sore thumbs, presspublisher relations
 
 
 
 
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Games Industry Not Recession Proof?

2008-09-26 23:58:10 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...Gamesindustry.biz more than a couple times, largely because he tends to provide timely pieces that reflect on the games industry and the outside forces working upon it. His article Recessive Traits today is more poignant and timely than ever, as it examines a very real and current problem and its potential effect on the industry: the economic...
 
Tags: games industry, industry, alcohol industry, industry recession, current games industry, current, fahey, worst economic crisis, mind fahey
 
 
 
 
 
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