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Negative Gamer - Videogame Journalism Doesn’t And Can’t Exist.
Perhaps labelling most videogame writers as sell-outs is a bit much. You can’t sell out of something you never bought into. Most writers claim they are doing what they do because they love games. They don’t long for lasting industry improvements, they don’t lament a lack of transparency and they sure don’t want to see gaming scale the IQ pile. They do it for a love of games, more accurately free games.

Edge Online - Death Of The Author.
For me it feels fairly inevitable. The importance of the author is diminishing and the importance of the collaborator in the story, the social framework in which it’s happening and the simulation of the world in which it takes place are increasingly important. The question is, do we ever reach a threshold where the author becomes zero? In the immediate short-term future, I see improving the ‘movie games’ we have. Telling better stories in our scripted events is very marketable. But in the mid-term, in the next decade, I don’t see how the lone author can stand up against this wave – an increasingly massive player-base that’s able to participate in a story. I think that’s going to overwhelm the importance of the author. Maybe I’m wrong.

Koku Gamer - Video Games Are Art. Thanks Ant via Digg.
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