Simon Parkin at the excellent Chewing Pixels has a roundup of some of the year's best game-related writing. There's some great stuff here, enought to keep me busy for the afternoon. Included is an insightful piece about the oft-reviled Luigi's Mansion, courtesy of Edge Magazine's Time Extend column. David Wong's Cracked article about the coming video game crash is both delightful and chilling. Well, I'll just leave you to it, then.
It seems to me that 2008 has brought more serious games journalism than any year before it. I spend a lot of time at 61FPS complaining about the industry's media, but I have to admit that I am consistently impressed with the quality of game journalism from dozens of smaller sites. It's good to see here that several of the bigger sites like Eurogamer and Edge can be successful while providing quality content. Despite the downturn in the economy, the flood of garbage casual games, and digg-driven internet culture, I really do believe that this is the best of all possible worlds. It's a great time to be a "thinking gamer", if you will. Never before has their been so much readily available brain candy. I'm thrilled to be a small part of it.
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