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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! VGM Watch http://www.vgmwatch.com/ Category: Blog Directory » Gaming Blogs » Gaming General Hits: 2 Date added: 2006-03-30 21:51:18 Alexa traffic rank: 1,136,683 Site average load time: 2.937 Second(s) Medium Faster than 34% of websites Site language: EN Site encoding: UTF-8

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Games, Games Writers Grow Up
Rob Fahey, formerly of GamesIndustry.biz, branches out into the world of the mainstream with his article with Times Online, located here. Fahey writes about how the industry has changed, growing up and reaching a much broader audience. Likewise, he himself is proof positive of how the... Read more...
Published 5 hours ago

GTA IV = Scarface, The Godfather? WSJ Says ‘No’.
Pulitzer Prize for fiction recipient Junot Díaz writes for the Wall Street Journal that Grand Theft Auto IV may be a damn fine game, may even be art, but it isn’t the achievement that some in the media have made it out to be, lacking the emotional gravitas that cinematic masterpieces or... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Entertainment Weekly Ranks “New Classics”
Entertainment Weekly has taken it upon themselves to rank the Top 50 modern classics across the mediums of cinema, television, books and, yup, video games. They compiled the 50 from the last 25 years - 1983 through 2008. The Top Ten Game Classics are: 1. Tetris PC (1985) 2. Legend of... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Games Journalism on Games Journalism
Mike Walbridge of GameSetWatch has a piece of journalism covering, well, journalism. He interviews several notables in the field of blogging on what they do, why they do it, where they think the profession is going, and even why they feel compelled to blog - for free - outside of their normal... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

PETA Takes Umbrage with Lobster Catching Game
Alright, so this may not be a video game, but its status as an arcade-style game and the unique surrounding controversy warrant mention. GamePolitics is reporting that a “Lobster Zone” game in a Colorado sports bar is drawing the fire of animal rights association PETA, who believes the... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Video Games Teach Your Kids Not to Smoke
Huh? That’s right. It seems Tobacco Free Florida’s campaign to cut down on youth smoking has turned to our venerable entertainment medium for a little help, specifically targeting the 11-17 demographic. Recently the body released a video in the style of a science-fiction first-person... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Vs. Mode Offers Up Reader Interaction
I’m a big fan of offering readers the chance to speak up, seeing as how the Web easily allows for such interaction. N’Gai Croal of Newsweek’s Level Up blog and Stephen Totilo of MTV Multiplayer regularly host a “VS. Mode” feature in which the two pontificate on profound gaming... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Working in the Industry in a “Golden Age”
Matthew Jeffrey over at GameCareerGuide opines on working in the industry today, the challenges that prospective job and career seekers continue to face, as well as the misconceptions associated with the industry climate - getting “lost in the crowd”, pandering to a limited demographic, etc.... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Mistaken Identities
Here’s something you don’t see every day - a game journalist not covering games, but writing about gamers as people, and the incorrect perceptions made about them and by them. It’s something vastly different from your standard fare and has a genuine, admirable human touch to the writing... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Blacksburg Tragedy as Game Material?
GamePolitics brings the goods again, this time reporting on a highly sensitive issue making an impact of sorts on the gaming world - the Virginia Tech massacre. Designer and Virginia Tech alumnus Manveer Heir has proposed a game that will see players going through the grieving process following... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago