Funambulism » media http://funambulism.com The remnants of a burgeoning ego. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:01:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Death of the Non-Gamer http://funambulism.com/2010/09/the-death-of-the-non-gamer/ http://funambulism.com/2010/09/the-death-of-the-non-gamer/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:37:14 +0000 Grill http://funambulism.com/?p=1761 As a PR and journalist, I’ve been frustrated by the non-gamers and anti-gamers – the people who haven’t played or would never play games – and how they control the media. As the years have gone by, their hold on the mainstream has been eroded and the review sections of most national media are now games-friendly but the main news pages are still run with an ethos that is often anti-games. I’d argue this is because the people running these pages are either older people who’ve never seen the point in trying [more...]]]> http://funambulism.com/2010/09/the-death-of-the-non-gamer/feed/ 0 Solving MMO review problems http://funambulism.com/2010/05/a-solution-to-mmo-review-problems-the-intereview/ http://funambulism.com/2010/05/a-solution-to-mmo-review-problems-the-intereview/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 16:37:39 +0000 Grill http://funambulism.com/?p=1461 To the tune of: Nina Nastasia – Our Discussion

As an MMO reviewer, I’ve felt both privileged (at occupying a niche few are equipped to explore) and also terrified (at a reviewer’s complete inability to perceive the whole game). As Quintin Smith found last week, and Ed Zitron found previously, reviewers, no matter how professional, can’t just hop back into an MMO when it’s been updated and hope to review it. Especially not, as those two found, when the audience they think they’re talking to isn’t the audience that actually reads and responds to the article. Here’s a putative structure for [more...]]]> http://funambulism.com/2010/05/a-solution-to-mmo-review-problems-the-intereview/feed/ 15