First off, sorry for the late-night updates today. I'm sure a few of you are already in bed. This won't become a trend or anything; I just ended up working on other stuff all afternoon.
The "mainstream media" is usually the evil enemy for hardcore gamers; more often than not, an article written on video games from a general-interest publication will be riddled with inaccuracy and uninformed opinion. I grew up thinking this, and the irony that Wired News is technically a mainstream media publication is not lost on me. It's as if I became the thing I hated, like Darth Vader or something.
At any rate, here are two recent mainstream articles on games. One I like, the other not so much. First, the one I don't like: a piece from the Albuquerque Tribune on a private high school with a game development program, that is sadly titled:
This of course reminded me of the part in Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics where he bemoans the fact that too many newspaper articles about comics felt the need to begin their headlines with sound effects from the old Batman TV show. Like how you'd see a story about Maus titled "Bam! Pow! Comix Go to Auschwitz!"
I don't even know what the hell sound effects from the old Batman show have to do with video games, anyway.
Well, on to the piece I liked. Joel Stein at the LA Times delivers a refreshing opinion column on Rockstar and people who sue Rockstar:
This comes just as rumors begin to spread that Connecticut, my home state and all, may be suing the Grand Theft Auto makers as well. I'm just waiting for those jerks at thetruth.com to start making snarky television commercials about "Big Videogames."
