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Eric Swain Recent Posts, Thoughts

I Called It

Well everyone else is doing their end of the year round up, and I thought I'd join the fun. Of course I haven't been around for a major part of the year, hell I don't think I've had an active posting site for a week, but I have been around for the last year and instead of giving my best 10 or whatever else, I'd like to state a few predictions I've repeatedly made to anyone who would listen (I'll do this here come next year) and see how I fared. I think you can guess by the title. | more

Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts

Zarathustran Analysis compliation

L.B. Jeffries is one of the best video game critics on the web right now, in my humble opinion. Back last April through June he wrote a 10 part series on how to critique as oppose to review games. He called it Zarathustran analysis. It is a little dense, but then the subject its working with isn't exactly easy to work with. These articles are a little old, but are a must read. (Only on the internet is 7 months old. | more

Eric Swain Critical Responses, Recent Posts

The Gaming Critique Symposium

For those of you not in the know, discussion on the nature of video game reviews has been taking place lately. So much so that Shawn Elliott has started a symposium to discuss the matter between about a dozen video game journalist, who I would more accurately describe as video game critics. He gathered a veritable who's who of gaming critics, that I'm sure most outside of this interest have never heard of, to embark on the project. | more