July 20th, 2011

gamejournos:

You may remember Joel Johnson tweeting the above at the start of June. I certainly do. At the time I seem to recall making a sound not unlike the release of air from a small inflatable chair - kind of an “Ehhh” sort of noise.

Three months is a long time. We’re a month and a half away from the end of that self-imposed embargo - how are Kotaku doing?

Now Not very well, it seems:

Wow. July 5th? Did they really last just over one month? No, of course not. They lasted one day:

I have to applaud Kotaky for sticking to their guns for a full twenty-four hours. That can’t have been easy for them. Kudos to you for having the balls to show Warner Bros. that you can’t shove around an outlet like theirs. You bite them, they’ll go ahead and bite right the fuck back. But not too hard, of course - they’d still like to get review copies, if that’s quite alright with you, Mr. Warner, sir.

Good old Kotaku.

June 12th, 2011
Do you really want to play a blockbuster title on the small screen? Handheld systems compromise certain types of gameplay by design — [their] controls are cramped, oddly placed and there just isn’t the same amount of real estate on the screen for big, 3D action.

Though Resident Evil Revelations currently features the best character models and graphics out of any 3DS title on the floor at E3, it’s still kind of a downer to play it on a system ill-equipped to simulate big console titles.

IGN editor Samuel Claiborn arguing that blockbuster titles like Resident Evil Revelations shouldn’t appear on handheld systems, and are hindered by the 3DS. :o/

Preorder: Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

(via tinycartridge)

More cutting-edge games journalism from IGN.

Reblogged from Tiny Cartridge
June 5th, 2011
I’m not without sympathy: I know it’s hard. You have to make ends meet, and CoD headlines rake in the ad revenue or the subscribers or the freemium iPad app dollars or whatever doomed monetization fix you’re jonesing for these days. But maybe you should stop reporting exactly what their marketers ask you to report. Maybe you should tell them to fuck off until they give you something worth reporting. You might lose a “friend” in ATVI’s marketing department. You might gain a little dignity as a press outlet.

QUOTED FOR TRUTH - Tiny Subversions, Darius Kazemi: Embargoes: the enthusiast press is not special [June 1st, 2011]

Read the entire article. Brilliant assessment of game journalism’s reaction to Activision’s decision to give the Wall Street Journal a Call of Duty exclusive.

Huge thanks to Dean Bowes for the link.

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