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Ex-EGM editor details seedy side of games journalism
By Gieson Cacho
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am in culture
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Game journalists Dan Hsu and Crispin Boyer may have left the video game magazine EGM, but they haven’t abandoned the biz. In point of fact, the two have started up the Sore Thumbs blog that offers and inside look to their experiences covering games for the past couple of years.
Folks who want to review games or just get into the business of talking about the industry should take a look at it. Hsu does sound cynical from the first post of the Behind the Scenes series, but it’s also frightening that this is perhaps the reality in the enthusiast press. Here’s how he starts it off:
1. No matter what you do or don’t do, you will get accused of being bought off at one or several points in your career.
2. If you can be bought off, you will get plenty of opportunities.
It’s not as cool or inspiring as the Lester Bangs quote in Almost Famous but he gets his point across.