Required Reading, Nick Rox Approved

[dave is ok]

Games journalism is a joke.

[jyoung]

Games journalism is a joke.

This is why the best article TNL ever published was:

"Ikaruga: Modern Subliminal Racism"

[Compass]

The NDA sadly for a big title is also pretty standard, score the game a 9 and you can publish early March and lower scores have to wait till May.

This is such bullshit. Can't all the major journalism outlets form some kind of Fuck Off alliance where stipulations such as these are concerned? Or would that still not work because of rags like Game Informer never coming aboard.

[Josh]

I could share more recent shit but why would I if you guys are going to behave like this?

Do it or don't. No one is going to jerk you off for making a post on a message board. Millions of motherfuckers post on message boards every day.

[Joust Williams]

Sounds like games journalism is more dependent on revenue from the publishers than revenue from the consumers. And that revenue ceomes in the form of "minibars"

[Almaci]

Compass, bingo.

Dave, have you even read the Gamasutra article I wrote and linked so no Games Journalism is NOT a joke. It can be as in depth and good as anything produced by a real and independant newsdesk.

Josh, check the update.

Joust, its like that no matter what you cover: Its the 80s and Playboy magazine decides to start a Dutch language version for the Holland and Flemish markets and market research has shown that demand will be between 20k and 30k magazines so for the first isseu they charge publishers a price with 25k in mind.

The initial run of 32k magazines sells out immediatly and all outlets order lots more.

Thing is the cover price is not enough to cover the printing cost and costs associated to licensing content in the magazines.

Playboy thinks advertisers will pay extra for the extra exposure and prints an aditional 80k magazines which almost all sell out.
Advertisers then say sweet we paid for 32k and got over a 100k thanks, result the first isseu of the local Playboy magazine nearly bankrupted the company.

[FirstBlood]

Dave, have you even read the Gamasutra article I wrote and linked so no Games Journalism is NOT a joke. It can be as in depth and good as anything produced by a real and independant newsdesk.

He meant that gaming journalism as an industry is a joke.

Which it is.

[Almaci]

Ah ok

[Joust Williams]

I meant game publishers.

[Almaci]

OK this is gettig confusing now.