There's a bit of a stir in the interwebs about a e-mail symposium Shawn Elliott is hosting [http://shawnelliott.blogspot.com/2008/12/commencing-countdown.html]. The participants include N'Gai Croal, Kieron Gillen, Leigh Alexander, Tom Chick, etc. etc. Each one will be discussing the following:
Review Scores
Reader Backlash
Reviews in the Age of Social Media
Reviews in the Mainstream Media
Casual, Indie, and User-Generated Games
Review Ethics
Reviews vs. Criticism
Evolving the Review
Optional: Response to Symposium Readers
It's gotten a lot of different reactions from people. Some are excited, some are pissed. A lot of it is knee jerk anger at having a perceived "elite group" get to talk about games and we're all expected to listen. blogged [http://www.snappygamer.com/2008/12/02/the-problem-with-games-journalism-part-one/] that reviews are fine since they're just consumer reports. They should stop yapping and just start writing good criticism instead.
So what do you folks think? Are you going to follow the write-ups? Do you care about that these folks have to say?
Review Scores
Reader Backlash
Reviews in the Age of Social Media
Reviews in the Mainstream Media
Casual, Indie, and User-Generated Games
Review Ethics
Reviews vs. Criticism
Evolving the Review
Optional: Response to Symposium Readers
It's gotten a lot of different reactions from people. Some are excited, some are pissed. A lot of it is knee jerk anger at having a perceived "elite group" get to talk about games and we're all expected to listen. blogged [http://www.snappygamer.com/2008/12/02/the-problem-with-games-journalism-part-one/] that reviews are fine since they're just consumer reports. They should stop yapping and just start writing good criticism instead.
So what do you folks think? Are you going to follow the write-ups? Do you care about that these folks have to say?