Interview The End of the World & Future of Fallout

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I assumed that the developers of games like these have never read a real book in their lives (or if they have then they misunderstood it) and so their insipid mentalities are at least understandable - but, jeepers creepers, when journalists (presumably acquainted with quality literature as part of their education) whose profession it is to inform us on the state of world culture start writing this kind of trash I think we get a few steps closer to a real apocalypse.

Games journalism doesn't really exist as a discipline, so it's impossible to apply actual journalistic standards to it. Writing about games could have evolved into actual journalism, reviewing, criticism, critique etc. at some point, and it was maybe even on the verge of doing so, but unfortunately the internet happened, so nothing ever came of it. The industry and its relation to the press is structured in such a way that it discourages a serious approach to the subject matter, and any attempts at it are marginalized and culturally irrelevant.