Op Ed

Hellforge - Why MMORPGs Suck- The Community. Thanks Mike Martinez.
"So what's the deal here? We get that WAR is this PVP-centric game that focuses on large scale battles, but this also means that any attempt at organization inevitably devolves into mindless swarming as most players just hang around to farm renown points (PVP experience). Needless to say, if you try to play the game seriously, you're going to get frustrated. Likewise, if you don't play the game seriously, you're going encounter the frustration of the self-described elites who troll the upper level of PVP renown with hundreds of hours logged to their characters."

Feeding The Machine- Shut Up About Game Reviews.
"The problem is that game reviewers want to be a part of the worldwide discourse on popular culture – in this case specifically video games – but they alienate themselves by catering to an extremely niche audience. Game reviewers talk to the people who have their Google Reader feed them from fifteen different gaming sites rather than the millions of people who would benefit from the review. The issue is not how to review a video game, which is a simple matter. If game reviews are to ever be taken seriously in the way movie, TV, and book reviews are then they’ll have to put away the self indulgent tripe and focus on the job at hand."