PandaBear

Christmas 2014 -- Typical mum -- I bought my kids a 3DS! They'll love it.

Mid-2015 -- I'll buy buy them some Amiibos or some shit, that'll keep them quiet. Fuck what they work only on a New 3DS?

Christmas 2015 -- Fuck the big games only work on the fucking "NEW" 3DS?! This is worse than the time I bought them a fucking Wii game that needed that special Wii U controller but I couldn't buy just the controller. I told the dickhead at the store I had a Wii!!

Mid-2016 -- Fucking hell the new Pokemon game only works on the NEW 3DS!?! Well fuck me. Stupid Nintendo... here kids have an iPad. It has games, they're cheap as shit and you can do more than games with it. I don't care if weekend daddy said you can stay up past 8pm. Did he tell you about how his whore of a girlfriend hates you? I'm sorry, mummy's been drinking.

Mid-2036 -- I can't believe I have to visit my moron son in jail. This is all Nintendo's fault.

Branding is important. I don't know why Nintendo suck so much at it.

Dark Souls.

Then dump her.

I still don't like Leigh Alexander and it has nothing to do with her being a woman.

Also, Twitter is alright.

Sliming? Like the gunk on Nickelodeon?

It's a hypotheical... of course it's vague. There has to a be slight leap of logic. You totally ignored everything else I said. The media is at it's best when it investigates stories and that's not happening in the games media. The real world example was people finally listening to abused children and investigating powerful organisations like the Catholic church. Some journalists had to risk their careers but knew the truth was worth it... game's journalists seem more content with sitting on their ass, ranting on Twitter and then proclaiming they're not going to get involved.

I told why recent events are worth investigating and why they matter... I just think there should be one mainstream media outlet who looks into this sort of stuff. Dude's on Reddit are doing more investigating than staff writers.

Dude... the Rolling Stone thing was a hypothetical.

You're saying that no accusation is worth investigating unless the source is 100% air-tight? You know that the guys who exposed Nixon at Watergate used the information provided by an anonymous dude in a carpark, Monica Lewinksy was just some young intern, hundreds of kids that nobody would listen to decades ago are now adults and suing the Catholic church over sexual abuse allegations.

The Zoe Quinn has become a figure-head of a feminist movement in games, a group of small-time venture capitalists started up a game jam for women. She accused them of sexism, they were hacked and their personal details exposed, they fought back and said they were trying to help indie devs. Look seriously, it's not a cut and dry issue... there's two sides to this story... and none of the big video game news sites bothered to chase up these stories. Why?

The source has to be reliable I get that, again I work at a newspaper - you think we don't have to weed through the crazies? But sometimes an unlikely source can break a huge story.

The point is the media is supposed to pick up the stories others ignore and find the truth. That's the whole fucking point in the fourth estate. This post was asking "What do you want from games journalism" and my answer is games journalists who do more than offer commentary and instead pick up the phone and call people. Find out the truth of the big stories and present it to their readers for judgement.

Journalists implicated in possible favourable coverage of games, online harassment of an industry figure, the reaction of the audience both good and bad, a group of people hacking an indie game jam lead by Zoe's comments, a relaunch of the same game jam with support of other industry people ... I mean fuck if you can't see a story worth reporting in there then I don't know what to tell you.

Imagine if a critic for Rolling Stone was accused of giving favourable reviews for money or sex OR a film festival was shut down by an angry mob of people over a difference of opinion? I'm not taking sides and I don't want the reporters toeither, I just want the reporting of facts. And we didn't get that on any level. There was illegal activities involved here, not just some TMZ gossip shit. Also on a side note TMZ do more in-depth, on the ground coverage than most gaming outlets.

Nah.

Speaking as someone who has worked at a newspaper for over a decade you just ruled out nearly every topic they can write about.

I want impartial journalists who write stories about what's happening without the need for commentary. The recent Zoe Quinn shit was so poorly covered by the games media I've lost a lot of faith in it. Pathetic Twitter rants and complaints that "we're not gonna talk about the trolls!!" is stupid. 80% of the people were told 50% of the story and instead of researching and presenting unbiased facts we were given nothing but a few public statements to deny any culpability. I had to search forums and small blogs to get ANY of the story.

Also people need to get off their high horse about what "journalism" is. It doesn't mean you have to work in a warzone... it just means you have to find facts and present them to your audience. There's room for features and opinion, but some fucking news reporting is sorely lacking.

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