Games Journalism (202 Words)

Games journalism today is slowly killing journalism as we know and expect it to be. The articles lack of structure and content, not to mention the whole simplicity of the review. Which I blame as laziness meaning time hasn’t been made to fully understand what the game offers and time to research the background of the game.

Another thing that needs to be revised in the way games are reviewed today is the constant budding up to the game developers. Writing reviews on games that they know are bad but somehow the game gets a good review. If this is the future of games journalism let us see a little criticism in the reviews.

To conclude if publishers (even websites) what people to read what they have to say and buy their magazines every month. There should be a restructure in the way they write their articles. Perhaps look into the way films and music was critiqued in the early days when a well written review whether the film / song was good or bad was required. Of course writing in this way would need modernised to some extent, but the basic structure and more detailed content is all that we ask.