Sites For You To Check Out
Posted by Kwip on July 19th, 2005 3 Comments 
There’s a couple of sites you need to check out (if you haven’t already!).
The first is AbleGamers.com, which may not appeal to all of you, but I know there’s a few people out there it’d be of interest to. It’s a site for disabled gamers.
No, I don’t mean people that suck at Half-Life.
They just re-launched, and they’re in need of some more eyeballs, so if you get a chance, stop by.
The second site is The Escapist. It’s a gaming magazine site that I previously mentioned as having contributions from such noteworthies as Tycho (whom you better already know), Kieron Gillen ( whose piece on The New Games Journalism should be required reading of every gaming-site ‘writer’ out there), and Jim Rossignol (a very clever bastard writer that I’m insanely jealous of).
Anyway, the second issue is up. No, the first one wasn’t a fluke – it really IS that brilliant.
We wannnnnttttsssss it, my precioussssss….
Oh, and if you get a chance, check out A Few Good G-Men. Because wow. Just wow.
July 20th, 2005 at 11:27 am
I find this line highly ironic:
“While none have quite dared say it to my face yet, an increasing number are opining in smoky boardrooms that the quality of writers simply doesnt affect a games magazine sales so they might as well turn to recruiting armies of kids who dont know better straight from college, burning them out in a year, and then getting another set.”
…funny. That’s EXACTLY what the video game industry does when making actual video games. It might as well read:
“While none have quite dared say it to my face yet, an increasing number are opining in smoky boardrooms that the quality of
writersprogrammers & artists simply doesnt affect a game’smagazinesales so they might as well turn to recruiting armies of kids who dont know better straight from college, burning them out in a year, and then getting another set.”Sad, but true.
July 20th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
A site for disabled gamers, but not people who suck… lol. That part cracked me up.
July 20th, 2005 at 3:04 pm
OK…the New Gamers Journalism article had a link in it to yet another blog/article that actually made me want to cheer and brought a tear to my eye. http://www.alwaysblack.com/blackbox/bownigger.html