Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay | This Week in Business
www.gamesindustry.biz
external-link
This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a…

More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.

mihnt
link
fedilink
12
edit-2
1Y

I still look to Yahtzee when I’m curious about a game that’s either new or I’m too broke to buy at the time.

Fuck a * out of * score. Tell me what annoyed you about the game, or what you enjoyed. So much more worth my time than seeing numbers and not looking into why those numbers exist.

Too many reviews just go through talking points from the publisher/dev anyway so they’re useless.

At least Yahtzee gets to the fucking point of it all and in short time.

rich
link
fedilink
2
edit-2
1Y

Never heard of Yahtzee but that sounds great.

A lot like Digitiser here back in the day…might write up a good post about Digi when I get the time.

mihnt
link
fedilink
21Y

Other poster is correct.
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw.

I think he’s the guy who does Zero Punctuation

You are correct

Create a post

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it’s gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming’s sister community Tabletop Gaming.


This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

  • 1 user online
  • 119 users / day
  • 187 users / week
  • 482 users / month
  • 1.87K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 2.5K Posts
  • 40.5K Comments
  • Modlog