TangoAlphaLima
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Awesome news for Jose. This is probably his dream job working for Nintendo.
I wonder who will take over as host of NVC.
I wonder who will take over as host of NVC.
This is certainly the conflict and honestly it's not the best look for IGN at this point. Either they've made a habit of hiring people who would rather work in games than in journalism or people who work there get put off the industry altogether.
Not a specific comment on Jose Otero, honestly I always found him very critical of Nintendo but even-handed. IGN has had a few other people who were fawning in praise until the objects of their adorations hired them and that doesn't serve the readership.
Damn, why does Nintendo keep stealing these guys away?
As others have mentioned, working in the gaming industry means that you are surrounded by other people in the gaming industry. It makes a lot of sense why people at IGN would be good fits for positions at companies that make games too. I don't think it's a conflict but rather a natural progression of networking and an industry where people tend to switch jobs frequently.
It would be worse if we had former devs coming to IGN to work as journalists.
The problem is if your reporters are spending more time networking than reporting, the publication will suffer for it. More to the point, if your reporters are treating every interview as a job interview, they're not likely to ask questions that will make them unpopular, nor are they likely to write much that can be construed as criticism.
People leave journalism for other fields related to their expertise and that's fine, but undeniably there's a pattern at IGN and it doesn't benefit IGN or its readers.
There's nothing to suggest any of this is an issue.
As others have mentioned, working in the gaming industry means that you are surrounded by other people in the gaming industry. It makes a lot of sense why people at IGN would be good fits for positions at companies that make games too. I don't think it's a conflict but rather a natural progression of networking and an industry where people tend to switch jobs frequently.
It would be worse if we had former devs coming to IGN to work as journalists.
Nintendo keeps on stealing those IGN employees. I guess the best way to get a job at Nintendo is to work at IGN first.
Congrats to Jose, I enjoyed NVC. Wonder who is going to replace him.
He was the weakest as far as criticism of Nintendo went, always an appologist.
I guess what I mean is that this is the job for him.
Rich George works (worked?) for Golin-Harris, Nintendo's PR firm.People have mentioned several IGN staffers left IGN for Nintendo. Can anyone fill me in on what they ended up doing at Nintendo? Is it PR?
He was the weakest as far as criticism of Nintendo went, always an appologist.
I guess what I mean is that this is the job for him.
He was the weakest as far as criticism of Nintendo went, always an appologist.
I guess what I mean is that this is the job for him.
People have mentioned several IGN staffers left IGN for Nintendo. Can anyone fill me in on what they ended up doing at Nintendo? Is it PR?
Rich George works (worked?) for Golin-Harris, Nintendo's PR firm.
Audrey Drake works in the Treehouse (localization, among many other things); you may have seen on on recent E3 streams.
The GOAT Matt Casasassassamamasina heads up gaming for the Apple App Store along with his man-servant BOZON. I think "Cranky" Craig Harris is over there now too.
The rest were ground into a paste to sustain Peer.
I believe some of his tweets mentioned he was real sick during E3.Damn...he's the 3rd IGN Nintendo person to do this in a row...
Explains why we saw no content from him over E3. I kept wondering where he was and why he wasn't on ANY e3 stuff, especially with such a huge showing.
This sucks for NVC and IGN fans, but I'm happy for Jose. Dude is awesome and now working for the company he loves.
Mitch Dyer is co-writing Battlefront II iircHow many IGN employees have gone onto Nintendo? And for that matter, how many hobbyist /journalist made the move into their dream job?
Luke Smith worked for MS for like a hot minuteSo Jose Otero now works for Nintendo, and Shane Bettenhausen works for Sony. That means former 1UP crew are now rivals!
What's next? Jeremy Parish working for Microsoft?