Another Games Journalism Editorial

Aaron McKenna writes on the pointlessness of video games journalism.

This is interesting only because of this:

I don't like what I'm reading one bit. And consequentially and rather unsettlingly, I don't much like most of what I've written in the video game press in the past, particularly in the area of reviews and previews.

A word from the cog in the wheel of the machine. I've heard from better cogs.

Honestly, he sounds more like he's trying to "fess up". In his article, he basically regurgitate everything that everyone else has written about games journalism: generic, structured reviews, writing for the masses, childish jokes, and even being marketing machines (by the way, in his article, the source auto links "machines" to an ad by Microsoft, you can't make that shit up).

In the end, no one really cares. People will still read anything they can get their hands and pointers on. We like reading opinions as a human genetic trait. It's the backbone of today's internet (I love you Brian Crecente!).

So will this new crop of gaming ouroboros pave the path for "new games journalism"? Will Wikipedia become self-aware and define itself? Will Halo 3 involve going back in time and defeating the creators of that annoying 343 Guilty Spark?

I've completely lost where this article was going. But I still give a 8.5.