PALGN staff resign following internal dispute
Staff for Australian gaming site PALGN have resigned from the site, although will continue to work on the site until end of play this Friday. The confirmation, according to MCV Pacific, came in a mail from site vet site executive editor Jeremy Jastrzab, which noted the call ” stems from an inability for the editorial ... Read More»
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Posted: Feb 7th, 2012
GI.biz to relaunch in UK and US, drop forced registration
Trade side GamesIndustry.biz will drop its requirement for registration this month, and is to relaunch with editorial and sales in both the US and UK. GI will merge with IndustryGamers.com, recently bought by GI-owner Eurogamer Network, “to create the world’s largest website for the games trade,” it was claimed in a press release today. In ... Read More»
Eurogamer Network hits 5.7 million unique users
Eurogamer Network traffic rose 10% year-over-year for November 2011, the company said today, quoting figures from its latest ABC audit. ABC’s confirmed that 5,778,816 unique browsers visited Eurogamer’s sites in November, clocking up 42 million page impressions. Eurogamer launched into its latest state in late October. The numbers do not include traffic to Eurogamer’s other ... Read More»
Lay-offs and budget cuts strike Future, IGN Network
Future US staff have been culled in a wave of lay-offs, while IGN has scrapped two entire sites. Future US has let 19 staff go, although its catalogue of brands remains stable, with no magazines falling by the wayside. The publisher told Joystiq the cuts are part of its digital transition. “Future US is currently ... Read More»
Kristan Reed named new Pocket Gamer EIC
Pocket Gamer’s parent organisation Steel Media’s announced this morning ex-Eurogamer editor Kristan Reed will become Pocket Gamer’s new Editor-In-Chief. Reed will overlook PocketGamer.com, as well as the trade-based PocketGamer.Biz, noting he was “looking forward to helping the team to take the Pocket Gamer sites to the next level.” Reed’s hiring comes on the back of ... Read More»
SOPA blackout: RPS, Gamasutra, SavyGamer go down in protest
Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Gamasutra and SavyGamer have all blacked out in protest to SOPA this morning. RPS‘s John Walker announced last night on the site it was to join the protest today, which has seen several big websites, including Wikipedia, Mozilla and Google, take part in some form. A message now greets users attempting to ... Read More»
Ex-Ars Technica editor joins Penny Arcade
Ars Technica gaming editor Ben Kuchera has bid farewell to the site in favour of a new role at Penny Arcade. Although details are yet to be locked down, it appears the site, which harbours a solid community and runs Child’s Play in addition to the eponymous comic, will soon play host to a games ... Read More»
VentureBeat acquires Bitmob, Dan “Shoe” Hsu named GamesBeat editor-in-chief
VentureBeat has acquired Bitmob, and its founder, as well as former Ziff Davis Media editorial director, Dan “Shoe” Hsu, has been brought on as GamesBeat’s editor-in-chief. Ben Popper, one of the founding editors of The New York Observer’s Silicon Alley blog, Betabeat, was also hired on as VentureBeat’s east coast editor. VB’s goal with the ... Read More»
Edge gets The Last of Us cover for next issue
Edge has promised a cover story for The Last of Us as part of its February issue, due next week. The mag, which features new artwork not seen before, will have an “in-depth” preview of the upcoming new Naughty Dog action IP. Also promised are features on Plants vs Zombies, Zen Pinball dev Zen Studios, ... Read More»
All change: James Binns quits Future, Keith returns
James Binns, head of Edge and PC gaming at Future, will leave the company on Friday to concentrate on other projects, reports GamesIndustry. Binns is well known within the company, having been there for 18 years. His role expanded early last year to include GamesRadar.com, CVG and sites for Official Nintendo Magazine and Official Xbox ... Read More»
aggrocast episode eighty six the one where brian hates everything
AggroGamer: "Brian simply hates everything in this podcast - from Game Stop to analog sticks to Kotaku. Well, maybe not everything, but just about... Read More»
waging war for integrity the curious case of benjamin paddon
There is a war of words brewing between independent bloggers like Ben Paddon (Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits) who desire a more honest view of the games industry - and writers at establishe... Read More»
game journalism needs a silver age
Games journalism isn't dead or dying. In fact, it may be about to hit a renaissance. Like comic books before it, something is a-brewing in the industry... Read More»
pleading the fifth i submit games journalism jerks
Rob's convinced that loudmouthed jerks are ruining games journalism, and he's not afraid to make a few enemies telling us how... Read More»
yakuza 4 sold big in japan more anti japanese games nonsense ensues
Yakuza 4 instantly jumped to the top thee between Japan's best selling PS3 videogames of all time, selling 526,093 copies in less than a month and ranking third behind Final Fantasy XIII and Metal Ge... Read More»
opp the freelancers podcast
The Freelancers is a highly enjoyable podcast dealing with a topic that many journalists have often blown off: getting into games journalism... Read More»
game journalism from dimension x
But even in this environment, some articles stand out more so than others as head shaking examples of some of the most ignorant stories the gaming media has ever perpetrated and oddly the majority of ... Read More»
the ps3 hate press campaign continues
Little more than a month ago I wrote about the fact that several "gaming" journalists scrambled at the launch of the PS3 slim to try and downplay it's effect on the market... Read More»
the ps3 slim hits big in japan despite the press
Today Famitsu reported that last week (which means actually in four days) 150,000 PS3 slim found a new home Japan... Read More»
spawn kill editorial watermarks a go go baby
Spawn Kill's Molotov Cupcake laments the overuse of watermarking in videogame journalism.
Video games are visual. That’s quite obvious, or at least it should be... Read More»
spawn kill i write about games better than you nyah
This isn’t a piece about my history as a gamer or anything of the sort. It was only little over two years ago that it ever occurred to me that perhaps I should give writing about video games a try... Read More»
burned by friendly fire amateur game critic rants
lwelyk of The Gaming dungeon takes a look at the "Burned By Friendly Fire: Game Critics Rant" panel at GDC; examining what was said and giving his opinions on the issues... Read More»
