Diablo 3's Launch Fiasco Proves Video Game Journalism Fails

I have been thinking the same for a while, in fact since before the Mass Effect 3 ending became a bit of a cause celebre. I've become increasingly disillusioned about the general quality of games journalism, both in print and on the web. It seemed to me increasingly reliant on just republishing press releases with no analysis whatsoever and it's relationship with the publishers has become far too cosy and incestuous. The analysis it does provide seems almost universally to be from the perception of the industry rather than it's customers. It's become almost impossible to tell 'journalism' from 'PR'.

Jon

This seems to be how a lot of journalism works these days. If you read any news story that includes the grade "xxxx, Managing Director said 'insert bag of air quote here'," then you know it's been a copy/paste job.

I think you'll find a lot of the news pages of all computer magazines will be regurgitated press releases.

I have to say Gamesradar is pretty good, as is Gamesmaster magazine. However there's few publications, including those above, that will give you an honest CoD review for example. 'Controversial' opinions are generally kept for articles after release,as opposed to included in-review, no matter the author.

I always thought PC Zone was a good mag. Too bad it's gone now, IMO PC Gamer just doesn't hit the same mark. Not sure what PSM is like these days, but I'd venture it's miles better than the Official PS3 rag.

I quite like Gamespot, the reviews are normally fairly in-depth and they even do video reviews these days, so no cut and paste there.