There’s two types of journalism – access journalism and accountability journalism. People say they want the latter, but seem pretty happy most of the time with the former… Continue reading
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Ethics in Gaming Journalism and Sir, You Are Being Hunted
When a games journalist uses his games site to raise money for his game development, the ethics of it should be looked at closely. Continue reading
A Short History Of Players Versus Gaming Journalists
Players and games journalists are natural enemies, forced to live together in a land that time forgot… Continue reading
A (Video Game) World Without Politics
In which I quote Clausewitz, just to prove my university education wasn’t a total waste. Continue reading
The Unbiased Games Journalist: A Fiction
A poor fiction at that. Continue reading
GamerGate: It’s All About Zoe Quinn
A look at trending issues around GamerGate. SPOILER: Zoe Quinn is the focus, not gaming journalism. Continue reading
The Yogventures Collapse: A Case Study in Kickstarter Video Games Failure
When Kickstarter-backed projects like Yogventures collapse, it’s important to look closely at them to see what the lessons are. In this case, it appears a key lesson is, “The backers are screwed”. Continue reading
The Trade-Off For Female Pro-Gaming: Visibility versus Meritocracy
I want to see equitable treatment of men and women in the gaming scene. Unfortunately I don’t think puting male and female pro-gamers in the same open-for-all tournament structure is going to help achieve this. Continue reading
Kickstander: Pre-Funding and A Question of Trust
Pre-funding titles in alpha, beta, etc is an act of trust… and there plenty of reasons why that trust is being eroded. Continue reading
From Vicarious to Evil
Around the start of the year I changed the name of this blog from Vicarious Existence to Evilasahobby. Here’s why. Continue reading
