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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks It’s great and all getting the games media to pay attention to your indie title, enough so they’ll dedicate a couple of kilobytes of database data to pass the news to their readers, but I feel that’s only part of the journey. Someone’s writing about your game, that’s awesome, but what if the readers don’t engage with that news? Is it the writer’s fault? Is there something the developer could have done better to improve their chances with the outlets they’ve targeted?
Mistakes happen all the time in the world of reporting news. That’s what you get when dealing with humans telling you stories. It’s one thing to make a mistake, though, and another to completely make shit up.
Uncharted 3 has done pretty darn well, going by the hive mind judgement of Metacritic. All but three outlets gave the game a score of nine or above. Of the sites to assign the game an 8 or less, Eurogamer is arguably the one with the highest profile — a profile significant enough for the game’s lead designer, Richard Lemarchand, to speak about it.
Irony of ironies, here as we are celebrating the 10 years of Grand Theft Auto III terrorising parents everywhere, IGN has shuttered What They Play which analysed video games from the perspective of parents concerned about violent and sexual content.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media empire has bought into the gaming business, purchasing not a global powerhouse, but… a tiny social games developer called Making Fun.
I’ve played the demo for EA’s upcoming Fight Night Champion and, having spent many an hour pounding on fools in Fight Night Round 4, I was a little bit confused – thankfully the team has released some tutorial vids that help highlight some of the new mechanics, whilst teaching us how to adapt to the new controls.
