MasonicGamer.com: The other day the gaming community was flooded with reports of an alleged leak regarding information on the next Microsoft console. The anonymous email was whored out to several “reputable” gaming news outlets in an attempt at a response. As the author cast his line into the shark infested waters it was only a matter of time before someone took the bait. Of course not only did he get a bite, they broke the line as practically every site contacted proceeded to post the speculation immediately.
However, are the games journalists to blame? In a word, yes, but nothing is ever that black and white.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Massively broken if stories like this one ( http://n4g.com/news/1160644... ) head to the top notch of the weeks list.
I dont have any idea about journalism for Nintendo, MS and PC systems, but in my opinion there are just few blogs left which are actually enjoyable, like PSXExtreme, PSU, Joystiq and vg247. The rest? Dunno... N4G? Too much rumor and opinion without any further proof. The worst? Kotaku for trying to be cool without beeing.
games journalism is just a joke, just like any other journalism i really dont see how anyone can believe these so called journalist especially the mainstrem journalist.
you have so much incorrect information in gaming journalism as much as diet and nutrition journalism.
Confusing! Get to the facts!
Gaming journalism anymore is people using each others stories, add their own twist, then post it as fact from "unknown" sources. Sites like this give them the hits/revenue they need and later produce more junk articles just to have more people hit their site based off "what if" and "might/maybe" situations.
I hate to say this but N4G has lost a lot of ground from the majority of people with their fanboy articles that get approved, and the important articles "might" get front page.
There's another site I've been visiting lately that has way more important gaming news, very, very limited fanboy articles, and even more limited fanboy comments (some get moderated out). You come to N4G its mostly Fanboy articles and unless there's some sort of console/game basing it might hit 500 Degrees, and a brief time of front page. I actually try to dig through the first 10 pages to see what other stories come up, and there's a lot of articles some other sites have that's legit news that N4G never even gets submitted, or even approved.
If you want to know how bad games journalism is, just look at the previous headlines that covered the Devil may Cry Reboot. Games journalism is a god damn joke! Granted, there are some good journalists who can cover news without using some idiotic controversial click baiting headline, but they are drowned out by the mass of "journalists" who don't know a thing about a given game and quite honestly don't care either. Just as long as their site keeps getting hits.
Its unfortunate that the mainstream sites are the worst offenders of this; even more so when they hold a fair amount of influence when it comes to public perception.