“Still, this feels more like an opportunity missed than something that demystifies an industry that suffers from more than its fair share of working myths” -A review of Paid to Play in the latest Edge Magazine (November 206, #168, pg. 22). The issue comes with a 32-page guide to working in the game industry titled […]
Read More“Finally, given that your character in this game is human, and Sonic is an animal, do you think anyone is going to attack the game for promoting bestiality? Because people have said stupider things. Like when they accused Tiny Winky of trying to turn kids gay.” -GameSpy concludes an interview with Sonic voice actress Lacey […]
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Read More“By the time you read this, E3 will be a distant memory to most.” -Andy Mcnamara leads off his editorial in Game Informer issue 160 (Aug. 2006, Kane and Lynch cover) with some amazingly prescient words.
Read More“This just in: Blu-Ray is dead.” -Luke Smith kicks of an article discussing Phil Harrison’s comment that he would be “amazed if the PS4 has a physical disk drive.”
Read More“I hate when editors change things. Not to sound like the kind of pussy who reads books, but word choice is how a writer establishes his or her voice and it’s especially important in editorial or comedy pieces. I’m sort of a frat boy jock with a lot of nerd hobbies, and I think I […]
Read More“Is there any gaming oriented subject a games journalist, desperate to add some substance to his or her trade, can’t spend a few thousand words upon? I dunno — ask Wagner James Au.” -Kotaku’s Florian Eckhart plays it snarky in linking to a piece on The Armchair Empire on the origins of some game character […]
Read More“Okay! We give up! You win! I didn’t notice the wrist strap on Wii at E3, when apparently it was there the entire time, especially after some people started using the controller incorrectly.” -1up’s Patrick Klepek retracts a story about a “new” wrist strap for the Wii controller, shown for not-the-first time at a Spanish […]
Read More“Both are much smaller than a brick” -Ars Technica illustrates the relative sizes of the DS, the DS Lite, and a brick in the caption for this picture in their DS Lite review.
Read More“No.” -The entirety of a Game|Life post that tells you all you need to know about rumors of Apple buying Nintendo, started by this CNet story.
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