Video Game Journalism: Contributing to Gaming’s Bad Image?
Thanks to the mainstream media, most households know the terms “Hot Coffee”, “Columbine”, and “seXbox”, and their relationship to video games. Gamers suffer a poor reputation from the distorted images painted in the news or on television. But have our own journalists done their job in defending us…or are they tossing more kindling to the flames?
In this week’s Robot Punch!, we explore a recent example in how gaming media continues to fail in lifting the stigma associated with video games.
Over the past few years, readers of Electronic Gaming Monthly may have noticed that their video game magazine of choice was losing some weight, that its page numbers were dropping lower by the month. Given the dire state of print journalism, we knew it was only a matter of time before EGM went the way of The Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Games for Windows, and dozens of other discontinued gaming mags. What we didn’t expect, however, is that most of the 1UP Network would go down with it.