blast from the pizast

[6x7]

Here's an essay I wrote two summers back. It's about the videogame industry, but I don't think I ever posted it to LJ -- if I did, please leave a comment to that effect.
I haven't re-read the whole thing, but will at some point Friday. It probably rambles at points. Ah well.
Read on, if you're interested in the videogame media...

The Pitfalls of

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[bokamba]

I didn't read the whole thing just yet, but I thought of something that counters the enthusiast press: gaming webcomics. Penny Arcade in particular, and Ctrl+Alt+Del to a lesser extent, mock and criticize bad games in both visual and verbal form.

[pcjunkie]

Very insightful as always. Ditto on what bokamba says. But then again, I think your point still applies because comics like PA and CAD have a single newspost 3 times a week, whereas the gaming press has entire websites/magazines to fill. So while CAD and PA can avoid the preview issue, the others cannot.