Games Journalism Is Broken

The freedom and enthusiasm involved in the magazines of yesterday was obvious. Good games would be praised with schoolground enthusiasm, bad games ripped apart with malicious glee – and yet the words would always (in the good magazines, of course) be chosen wisely and manipulated skilfully. It was like being told which games to buy and which to avoid by your most intelligent friend.

Employee Wives Accuse Rockstar of Unfair Working Conditions

The wives of Rockstar San Diego employees have published a letter in which they accuse the company of enforcing unfair working conditions on their husbands. They threaten legal action if no changes are made.
The letter, which was published Thursday, January 7 on Gamasutra, details declining conditions which supposedly began March of 2009. The letter [...]