Notch on Twitter: "remember game journalism?"
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yes i do, it's as decent as ever.
then again, i only read a german printmagazine that employs gamers that happen to have studied journalism, not kotaku. they even sometimes have articles debunking the most retarted crap that the american media puts out.
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Not really. Tell me more.
Well we had these things called "magazines" that were printed on something called "paper" that would be sent to you through something called "the mail". The people who wrote for these "magazines" didn't get paid very much, so they tended to be people who really liked to play video games as a way to get paid to do so. And maybe some of them had higher aspirations to get into games design or development.
This love of the hobby tended to show in the production of these "magazines", and you tended to feel as though the people writing and editing them were similar to you. And when people like Jack Thompson attacked video games, the "magazines" gasp defended the hobby instead of shitting all over it.
Of course some "magazines" were in the pockets of the larger publishers, but it was usually pretty obvious which ones those were
Is something wrong with Leigh?
Ah obsolete. Surprised they're still around.
To be honest I feel a little disconnected from the news of gaming, even before GG kicked off proper. Polygon and Kotaku were already pretty insufferable by then.
On the upside, I don't get dragged along any hype trails for disappointing games anymore, which saves me money and attention when I have a limited supply of both. Games like Fallout '76 and LoU2 doesn't make me particularly bullish on any new high-profile games for the foreseeable future anyway.
Sadly, no.
Awww Notch getting a nudge from the OG Richard Garriot, I can practically see the weeb blush on his avatar as he writes "Big fan :)"