Burying the Lede « The Game Beat

29Jul/100

Burying the Lede

Whoops, forgot to post this yesterday. Here's an extra-long edition to make up for it.

IGN takes a page from Giant Bomb's playbook -- and it's a pretty smart page to take!
Destructoid's Nick Chester discusses why our job inevitably leads to owning a ton of night shirts that you can never wear in public.
Presenting volume 42,768 in the continuing series: "Press ignores games without big marketing budgets."
I love this bit of User Review fan fiction way more than I probably should.
That Rockstar three-volume book I mentioned here a few days ago has been cancelled, but apparently a similar one is in the works.
Speaking of awesome-sounding books about games, this French book on Nintendo's early history sounds awesome. And and AND it'll soon be available in English!!!!11oneoneelevensies
The incredible story of a Rare fansite that got snubbed by the object of its fandom.
"Some 30 years after video games became a popular form of mainstream entertainment, we're still liable to hear less about games' positive impact on kids' lives than sensationalistic accounts of their hidden dangers."
As if to prove that last quote true, ladies and gentleman, let me present Raoul Mote.

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Kyle Orland has been writing about video games (and video game journalism itself) professionally for a wide variety of outlets for nearly a decade. He's the author of Wii for Dummies and the co-author of The Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual. His favorite game of all time is Super Mario 64.