Tag: Game Journalism

Eric Swain Game Issues, Recent Posts

A Reader’s Manifesto and why it could be A Gamer’s Manifesto

I finished a book a little while ago entitled A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose and I loved it. I loved it so much that I’ve started calling it my little black book. It’s a long form literary critique using examples from numerous books, both-what the author calls-good and bad. It’s not a dry academic stuffy read. It is a fast, concise to the point essay about a specific topic that is not a high-minded far away abstract topic, but about book reviews, reviews people readers rely on to tell them what is good. | more

Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts

L.B. Jeffries on Video Game Critics

I love L.B. Jeffries' writing. To me he is one of the most eloquent and hardest working in our field. And to my knowledge does it all for free. He has also described himself as the angry young man of game criticism. Last year he turned his critical eye towards the idea of the video game critic. He explored critics from other mediums and then looked back at what we as game critics could learn from them. Personally I've tried to take some of these ideas as base point to work from, but even then I don't think anyone has gotten a methodology that works to encompass the player's input. | more

Eric Swain Critical Responses, Recent Posts

N’Gai Croal moves on and other thoughts on Game Journalism

For those of you who haven't heard N'Gai Croal is leaving Newsweek effective the end of the week and becoming a consultant for the games' industry. You can read his final post and farewell here. For those of you now asking "who is he or why should I care," then I responded "why are you reading this site?" And for those of you legitimately ignorant, but would like to educate themselves I'm sure there are better places to understand him. This podcast comes to mind. | more