August 6, 2012 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts Political Correctness in Video Games I was thinking about doing a line-by-line take down of this article from IGN a while back. Now I just don’t care. Part of that were the responses others wrote before I could get my act together. While they all have overlapping points, the four posts that I saw in response to this piece didn’t come at it from the same direction. Upon reading the first three I felt I could still add something because my particular angle when it comes to these sorts of posts hadn’t been thoroughly explored. | more
September 9, 2010 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts The Counter-Arguments to Why Video Game Are Bad This is not an essay by me. I'm sorry if you got that impression and clicked your way here. There are a few posts I've read recently that articulate the debate very well. As with most posts like this it's really for me to have them at my fingertips should I ever need the link. However, with the Supreme Court case coming up soon deciding whether or not video games are protected speech under the first amendment they are good articles to pass around. If you haven't read them before, I thoroughly endorse them, if that means anything. | more
March 18, 2009 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
December 18, 2008 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
