Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
That is not Lauren Wainwright of MCV. Just a kid with the same name.
She looks the same as the picture on Wainwright's twitter profile. So... I'm inclined to believe that it is actually her.
That is not Lauren Wainwright of MCV. Just a kid with the same name.
The problem is the second anyone insults a womans appearance it turns into that sort of argument. Where people are automatically claiming "misogyny, patriarchy". You still are ignoring what I said and automatically assuming we're sexist.
I'd rather ask this: What does her appearance have to do with all this?
He also posted a list of people who used the hashtag to win the PS3
http://storify.com/andybeta/gmadefiance
No, it's still disgusting and horrific. Especially when they go on an dreview games that their friends work on without disclosing (like any Harmonix or Double Fine game).
Also funny how they don't review Dance Central 3 because it's a bad game, but felt fine giving great scores to DC1 and 2. Why? Because their friends work at Harmonix who are currently dieing right now.
stuart campbell just retweeted this
https://twitter.com/Valdestine/status/261494985952722944
i wonder how long she was working freelance for square-enix. did it go back to 2010 and beyond?
What was wrong with the way he wrote the article?
As much as they should never have been jailed, they were jailed for misrepresenting the risk, not of actually failing to predict a quake. There is a difference.
They were members of the national committee on major risks, so communicating and quantifying the risks was what they were being paid to do.
They were basically like the scientists in B-Movie disaster movies who don't believe the hero that the local volcano etc is gonna explode.
So is the problem that this Laura Wainwright character is a shill, or that someone called her out for being a shill?
Because it sounds like the latter is a bigger deal than the former in the clubby game journo world. This makes total sense, not to make it political, but you clearly see this same dynamic amongst crooks in government, finance, etc. the problem isn't that guy X is a crook, it's that people calling him a crook are besmirching his good name.
Here are her Square Enix related articles.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/4375406/Gamings-killer-double-act.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/4354817/Let-sleeping-dogs-lie.html
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2011/11/04/the-redemption-of-lara-croft
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/3769932/Lab-rat-revolution.html
http://www.vg247.com/2011/02/07/cloud-nine-mitsunori-takahashi-on-dissidia-012/
http://www.vg247.com/2011/02/02/the...bata-i-dont-believe-survival-horror-is-dying/
http://www.vg247.com/2011/01/17/interview-tactics-ogre-director-hiroshi-minagawa/
http://www.vg247.com/2011/01/11/interview-lord-of-arcana-producer-takamasa-shiba/
Gaming Journalism: With a Vengeance.
Reminds me of the situation where Future Publishing pulled a Paul "Mr.Biffo" Rose column over Phil Harrison's conduct at a Marrilion concert over a Sony Legal threat. Once Sony lawyers came in, Future just killed it. Rose pretty much quit on the games industry after that.
They were critical of journalism way back when, and never really claimed the journalism title but it's sad that so many ex-1up guys now work in the industry. When is the last time a sports writer got hired to work in the front office of a professional baseball team?
If only someone would look into the sorry state that the US Games press is also. THe whole buddy buddy thing with journos and devs is disgusting. GiantBomb sickens me all the time because of this.
Giantbomb elected not to review Bastion because of their involvement in the ongoing development diary coverage they had on the site. Full disclosure.
Jeff Gerstmann did not review Dance Central 3 because he couldn't get it to work under optimal conditions at his home and he would be out of town for the week which would affect a timely review so he declined to critique it for the site. This was all talked about on this weeks Bombcast.
Or maybe he is a big fat liar, whatever fuels your 'horrific disgust' about a videogame website where the writers happen to know most of the other people in the industry from over the years. Follow the money.
Looks like no one I actually like reading stuff from is on that list. Phew.
Is she pulling an Amir0x by covering her tracks?
Giantbomb elected not to review Bastion because of their involvement in the ongoing development diary coverage they had on the site. Full disclosure.
Jeff Gerstmann did not review Dance Central 3 because he couldn't get it to work under optimal conditions at his home and he would be out of town for the week which would affect a timely review so he declined to critique it for the site. This was all talked about on this weeks Bombcast.
Or maybe he is a big fat liar, whatever fuels your horrific disgust about a website about videogames. Follow the money.
Longtime Chicago Tribune reporter Sam Smith was hired to write the Chicago Bulls team blog a few years ago. But he was hardly angling for the job. Smith is best known for writing "The Jordan Rules," which is a fairly critical book about the early years of Jordan's career.
In discussing 1Up, it also can't be forgotten that it was a sinking ship for about a year, so I think a lot of people were taking their lifeboats when they could.
Doesn't remove the image of impropriety, however.
That list should go even further and have the site/mag they work for next to the name.
They've been expressing a lot of confusion over how to review Kinect games. Brad gave Fable a much higher score than he seemed to judge the game, forgiving it for the fact that it was completely broken, because the Kinect itself is completely broken. I think that's an awful way to review games, and personally would rather see them abandon Kinect reviews altogether than pretend that they work.
So is the problem that this Laura Wainwright character is a shill, or that someone called her out for being a shill?
I don't think Dave threatened to sue EG as she supposedly did. I don't think they work for the same company either do they? Is VG247 part of the MCV "network" or whatever? To be honest, Dave has always seemed like a nice guy, and he gives away quite a lot of stuff on his Twitter, presumably the PR stuff he gets given - i.e. he donated his PS3 from this to the sick kids charity.
That doesn't get away from sending the advertising tweet of course, but I don't think he's made anything like as much of a fuss over the situation as Wainwright did. In fact, looking at his Twitter he seems to have realised his mistake and be quite apologetic about it.
Point/counterpoint/nothing.seems to me youre just repeating the kool aid and being a sheep like what this article challenges you as. Good job lad.
AFAIK the MCV said they didn't start a lawsuit. I don't think they denied threatening Eurogamer with a lawsuit, however.
Ben Parfitt ‏@BenParfitt
@BenKuchera @Michael_French Intent at no stage threatened legal action
seems to me youre just repeating the kool aid and being a sheep like what this article challenges you as. Good job lad.
Rab Florence tweeted that there were threats of legal action, CVM guy tweeted there weren't any from their part. So the threat of legal action was from other involved parties in that article (Geoff, Dave Cook, Doritos, Mountain Dew, Microsoft) or, someone is lying or talking about hearsay. This is a complete mess now.
seems to me youre just repeating the kool aid and being a sheep like what this article challenges you as. Good job lad.
Nether really. She was used as an example of actions that could make the public question integrity. The article didn't say "hey take a look at this shill, omg" or "this person has no integrity because of this". It pointed out recent actions of 2 "journalists" who could be used as an example of why the public may question the system behind it all. The writer went on to explain that the two he mentioned probably had no connections to anything PR.
So, my question is, how do you name drop people, then develop a conscious about it two paragraphs later? Why not go after the really crooked ones, if you have the evidence to do so?
What was wrong with the way he wrote the article?
And didn't that Shane guy go on to become a Sony PR shill or something?
Why do you even care? Are you going to buy Fable The Journey? The entire industry is guilty of using the fucked up 7-10 scale.
Giantbomb elected not to review Bastion because of their involvement in the ongoing development diary coverage they had on the site. Full disclosure.
Jeff Gerstmann did not review Dance Central 3 because he couldn't get it to work under optimal conditions at his home and he would be out of town for the week which would affect a timely review so he declined to critique it for the site. This was all talked about on this weeks Bombcast.
Or maybe he is a big fat liar, whatever fuels your 'horrific disgust' about a videogame website where the writers happen to know most of the other people in the industry from over the years. Follow the money.
seems to me youre just repeating the kool aid and being a sheep like what this article challenges you as. Good job lad.
Geoff Keighley is the Billy Bush of video games. Ive always saw him as a hype man for all games. People getting pissed that hes standing next to Halo Doritos is kinda ridiculous. Hes been doing this kind of stuff since 2005.
He works in business development and developer relations. So not quite the same thing you're making him out to be.
Giant Bomb doesn't use the fucked up 7-10 scale, though. And they generally point out faults and review games with internal consistancy. Brad seemed pretty harsh on his experience with this game andthen gave it 3 stars with the reasoning being essentially "If the Kinect weren't broken and unreliable, this would be a decent game." I'm saying I agree with their decision to not review Dance Central 3 if the review would have made the same concessions. Why publish a review that pretends the game works when it just doesn't reliably?
Well the problem with that is that these costs are only awarded once the case is done
and the lawyers you hire aren't going to wait for a year or however long for you to pay them while the case is ongoing, so you have to pay and then wait for the court or other party to reimburse you (which can also take ages or be whittled down on any appeal).
So by the time you actually get the money, the damage may have already been done.
Just because you pretend GiantBomb are your "friends over the internet" doesn't mean you have to white knight them. What they do is shady and disgusting. It works for them but it is.
The problem comes in that Harmonix are having a really hard time right now and are laying people off their friends, so it makes it super shady that theyre not reviewing the game as they possibly don't want to put the well deserved deathknell in.
Honestly reminds me a bit of Jonathan Ross in the film world. Jonathan Ross hosted a film television show on the BBC, talked a lot about films, was a prominent figure I guess in the British cinema media coverage. But he's just a personality, you'd never really look to him for the cutting insights, the harsh reviews, because the BBC also had (and still has) Mark Kermode. Dunno who the gaming world's Mark Kermode is though.Geoff Keighley is the Billy Bush of video games. Ive always saw him as a hype man for all games. People getting pissed that hes standing next to Halo Doritos is kinda ridiculous. Hes been doing this kind of stuff since 2005.