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First-Graders Are Learning How To Write Video Game Reviews Now

Kotaku - My friend John found this hanging in a first-grade classroom here in NYC. It's for the kids' writing workshop. I think we're going to start using it as the Official Kotaku Review Guide from now on.

mandf4071d ago

Half of kotaku writers write like a first grader. One negative article after another. Kotaku can't write one article without writing something negative about Sony.

mandf4071d ago

Facts are the facts. I didn't say anything fanboyish. Kotaku earned the reputation, they can live with it.

Rockefellow4071d ago

First graders could do a better job than everyone writing for Kotaku.

BanBrother4071d ago

First graders are at least being taught standards, which is better than most average Joe fanboy review with crappy website. Gaming Journalism needs to have standards in place. It seems as though you can make a website and get on metacritic, which is not very professional at all.

admiralvic4071d ago (Edited 4071d ago )

While I've seen some lame Kotaku articles over the past year, this one takes the cake.

First off, what's so funny about there being no mention of scores? Several articles / writers have expressed interest in letting the words speak for them-self, so it's not like everyone loves scores. I personally understand why they exist and just wish more people tried to figure out WHY it scored whatever, over debates about how whatever score is right or wrong.

As far as the actual paper goes, writing a review is a nice way to teach kids critical thinking. It makes sense for a teacher to make the project interesting to them, since they would actually learn said skill. Perhaps if some writers at Kotaku did this, we wouldn't see so many worthless articles and hate filled replies.

Soldierone4071d ago

I always tell the site I write for I prefer having no scores. It always get over ruled for two reasons. 1 People don't read....they just scroll to the score then leave. 2 You needs scores for sites that archive a games reviews.

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5 Of The Best Narrative Twists In Video Games

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Rebel_Scum1d 3h ago

With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?

Not clicking on your article otherwise.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.