Anime The Games Journalism Prizes

[Kane]

In my opinion game journalism occupies the small niche between "utter bullshit" and "an awful joke", however apparently some people agree with me, so they made this:

http://gamesjournalismprize.com/

The Games Journalism Prizes are a pretty serious thing and there is lots of money behind it, backed by various luminates of the "gaming media". The irony is of the charts but hey, have a look at those nominations anyway!

 

[dnf]

Bro, put the content here in the dex plz

 

[DwarvenFood]

I wanted raw news, but all I got was a lousy URL.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

• The Mirror Men of Arkane by Russ Pitts at Polygon.
• Tropes vs Feminism vs Misogyny: Who’s Right? by Wesley Copeland at VGI
• The hypocrisy of western gamers and sex by Matt Sainsbury at Digitally Downloaded
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings review by Cameron Lewis at OXM Online
• Mass Effect 3 review: the sharp edge of hope by Arthur Gies at Polygon
• Opinion: Sex, Lies and Tomb Raider by Audrey Drake at IGN
• A tale of Orange: Dragon’s Dogma’s unwanted daughter by Leon Hurley at Official Playstation Magazine UK
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Shooter by Tom Bissell at Grantland
• A Rant: Enough Of Single-Player MMOs by Richard Cobbett at RockPaperShotgun
• Alone In The Kitchen by Dennis Kogel at Kill Screen
• Free Radical vs. the Monsters by Rich Stanton at Eurogamer
• Paging Dr. Wasteland: One man’s crusade to heal DayZ’s zombie victims by Charlie Hall at Ars Technica
• Let’s Not Lose Track Here: DLC Is A Good Thing by John Walker at RockPaperShotgun
• Is Metacritic Ruining The Games Industry? by Keza MacDonald at IGN
• Music To My Thumbs: Transcribing Braid by Julian Benson at RockPaperShotgun
• Chasing the Dragon by Lee Bradley at Eurogamer
• Life After Zynga: Slade Villena and Vigrior by Owen Faraday at PocketTactics
• In games, love is just a lie, made to make you blue by Rainer Sigl at VideoGameTourism
• Jenova Chen: Journeyman by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer
• 38 Studios and the Dunkin delusions by Alexander Sliwinski at Joystiq
• Are Porn and Games Basically the Same Thing? by Colin Campbell at IGN
• Banning E3 booth babes isn’t good manners, it’s good business by Ben Kuchera at Penny Arcade
• Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War by Karl Parakenings at Medium Difficulty
• Donkey Kong’s failing liver: What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines by Jeffrey Grub at VentureBeat
• Finding The Fun: Medusa Heads In Castlevania by Hamish Todd at Kotaku AU
• Love And Chaos by Yannick Lejacq at Kill Screen
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Gaming’s Greatest Con Job by Jeremy Parish at 1UP
• MOTHER/ Earthbound Zero Manifesto by Pat AKA ‘Pitchfork’ at Socks make people Sexy
• Ms. Effect: The Rise of FemShep by Richard Cobbett at Eurogamer.
• Objectification and Lollypop Chainsaw by Jim Sterling at Destructoid
• PANDORA’S LUNCHBOX: DEREGULATING DECENCY WITH DORKS’ DOLLARS by Kyle Carpenter at Medium Difficulty
• Quit your bitching and listen to mine. Why it sucks to be a gamer in India at SlackerNinja
• Reintroducing Maximum Payne by Richard Wakeling at Thunderbolt
• Reversing the Design: Final Fantasy 6 at the Game Design Forum
• Sad But True: We Can’t Prove When Super Mario Bros. Came Out by Frank Cifaldi at Gamasutra.
• The Banking Game by Julian Benson at Eurogamer
• The Binding of Edmund McMillen by Nathan Grayson at Eurogamer
• The Dota 2 Experience, Part One by Quintin Smith at Eurogamer
• The Great Big Puzzle Box: A Close Look at Dark Souls’ Ingenious Difficulty as Witnessed by One Dead Guy in Sen’s Fortress by Chris Dahlen at Save The Robot
• The perfect crime: Inside the minds of the Scottish creators of Grand Theft Auto by Martyn McLaughlin at the Scotsman
• The reality of the OUYA console doesn’t match the hype: why you should be skeptical by Ben Kuchera at Penny Arcade
• Who Killed Rare? by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer
• Playing God: On Death, Motherhood, and ‘Creatures’ by Jenn Frank at Unwinnable
• Mass Defects by Taylor Clark at The New Yorker
• The Art of in-game Photography by Rainer Sigl at VideoGameTourism
• On The Fringe, Part Two: Robin Arnott’s ‘Deep Sea’ and Anna Anthropy by Danielle Riendeau at Joystiq
• A Horse Named Gizmondo: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Failed Console by Ellie Gibson at Eurogamer
• The Perils, Challenges, and Uncertainty of Collecting and Preserving Video Games by Richard Moss at Archive.vg
• “Flash of Greatness” by Rich McCormick at PC Gamer
• RIP: Vile Rat by Alexander Gianturco at The Mittani
• The Final Hours of Mass Effect 3 by Geoff Keighley
• Why Kickstarter ‘can’t’ and won’t protect backers once a project is funded by Emily Gera at Polygon
• Hironobu Sakaguchi: Fantasy Man by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer
• Football sims and the fallacy of realism by Keith Stuart at Hookshot Inc.
• Fragging Bambi’s Mum: Photo-realism and the misguided quest for more emotional games by Richard Cobbett at PC Gamer
• Death by gaming: an investigation into the Taiwan café fatalities by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer
• Confessions of a middle-aged games writer by Keith Stuart at Hookshot Inc.
• Practically impossible: The quest to decipher Fez’s cryptic final puzzle by Sinan Kubba and Kyle Orland at Ars Technica
• End Game by Jason Schwartz at the Boston Magazine
• What Happens to Your Used Games? by Colin Campbell at IGN
• Saving the Monster: what the ending of Papo & Yo can teach us about abuse by Sophie Prell at PA Report
• Front Row Videogames Special by Naomi Alderman on BBC Radio 4 (audio)
• What Video Games Can Learn From Board Games by Harry Slater at Bitgamer
• Battlefield 3: How Fan-Run Servers Are Ruining DICE’s Game by Jon Denton at Eurogamer
• I like Kane & Lynch by Joel Loynds at Tumblr
• The Truth Behind Shag A Gamer by Steve Hogarty at PCGamesN
• The Mirror Men of Arkane by Russ Pits at Polygon
• What if you got paid to play games at work? by Fiona Graham at BBC News
• Night and the city by Christian Donlan at Eurogamer
• You Want to Make a Boyfriend by Mattie Brice at The Borderhouse
• The Hollowed Killer of Lordran by ‘alex’ at Nightmare Mode
• So Far Away by Tanner Higgin at Unwinnable
• If Gamers Are The Educated Elite… by John Brindle at Nightmare Mode
• I’ll Never Be the Queen of Ferelden by Mattie Brice at CtrlAltDefeat (pgs 12-13)
• Oceans Away! by Chris Dahlen at Unwinnable
• I Play For Fun: The Four Dumbest Words in Video Games by Michael Lowell at Learn to Counter
• Max Payne 3 review: Nature of the beast by Ludwig Kietzmann at Joystiq
• The Family That Built A Video Game Together by Mark Serrels at Kotaku

Raw delivers ctrl+d worth material.

 

[Cassidy]

http://gamesjournalismprize.com/

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