Game Politics

In a fit of nanny state paternalism sure to put a grin on the face of big government elitists everywhere, GamePolitics.com is reporting the ESRB has forced the removal of Fallout 3 game trailers from all sites. Bethesda's VP sent an e-mail notifying all sites to remove the trailers "immediately." The removal was forced by ESRB officials according to Edge Online and GamePolitics.com.

Not content with this vulgar display of bureaucratic tomfoolery, the ESRB then decided it had the authority to regulate third party content made by gamers and game sites, independent of the ...

EA is apparently fed up with people acting like idiots on the official EA forums and has plans to hit these gamers where it hurts--by banning them.

Originally Posted by EA Games eaapoc

Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned.

Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you'd actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums

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Here's an article that's currently getting a lot of attention from the gaming press, for reasons that will become obvious once you read it. The article is attributed to "Anonymous Guy from Big Publisher."

Ordinarily, I tend to look at articles without proper attribution with a very skeptical eye, as the Internet teems with frauds looking to do a quick and dirty hit piece and grab headlines. However, this article has an intro from Dan "Shoe" Hsu where he vouches for the anonymous author and says he is who he claims to be. That's interesting. Hsu then goes on to ...

An interesting article has surfaced over at ShackNews (thanks ShackNews) in which AIAS president Josesp Olin is quoted as stating that game journalism's current problem is that game journalists are lazy. Indeed.

Originally Posted by Joseph Olin

"My pet peeve is that game reviewers are lazy," he said. "Not all, but in terms of the reviews [something like] 'This game isn't as good because let's compare it to that game over there and that game was great.' Who gives a, you know, bleep?"

"How can you review a game, how can you give a comment about a game like Grand Theft Auto IV,

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Game sites and magazines often via with one another to secure deals for exclusive content of various sorts, previews of upcoming titles being the most obvious. Exclusive sets of screenshots and movie trailers are also pretty common. But what about exclusive reviews?

Unfortunately, some game publishers are beginning to warm to the idea of exclusive reviews. Now game journalists are no different than any other type of journalist, in that we all want to be the first to land a big story. Nothing surprising about that. And it's also understandable that publishers release exclusive content ...