Show me a better video game journalist. Protip you can't.
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Paul Tassi, Jason Evangelino, and Oliver are all better than him
Erik Kain is the fucking worse of Forbes, holy shit. Just get out.
>>345277235
Erik Kain's pretty alright.
The only other good dude in game journalism I can think of right off the bat is Chris Carter from Destructoid. Funny that a crew as crap as them has someone like Carter on board. His reviews are among the few I trust.
>>345277235
Why the fuck is he wearing a hat inside
Faggot hipster
>>345277529
kek. That's kind of fucked.
>>345277235
Jim Trinca and Steven W Burns. Videogamer uk in general is great.
>>345277529
>Not remembering Stevie "I cant see shit but im sure its a hit' Wonder
Casuals
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The entire staff of Play outside of fucking Dave Halverson.
Shame that Heather Anne Campbell isn't a journalist anymore, but her comedy career is probably better anyway. Also, her nose is cute. CUTE!
>>345278012
probably bald
He became an SJW. Even the best can fall.
>>345278686
When?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/02/29/apparently-the-trick-to-video-game-writing-is-making-straight-white-gamers-angry/#262582811cd6
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/02/22/is-it-time-for-gamers-to-just-grow-up-and-play-street-fighter-v/#52350fd348b3
Did it just happened or something cause he still seems pretty based in 2016.
>>345277235
Journalism is about reporting facts.
Those who do their job well don't get to stand out. They build a long and stable career by doing the right thing and providing proper info about companies and game releases, detailed well-informed reviews and so on.
Kain is "famous" because he latches onto the newest outrage and gives his well-written two cents about them, which makes anti-sjw fans cream their pants in excitement as their idol joins the fray.
Of course it's good for any journalist to have some kind of notoriety, but that's through a job well done, not because he behaves like a saturday morning cartoon character. If you go too far down the rabbit hole then you stop reporting news and instead become one yourself: a celebrity who draws attention by clickbaiting the fuck out of his precious opinions over the boring everyday news everybody else is reporting anyway so he clearly doesn't need to.
Not saying Kain does exactly this btw, just saying that it's a consequence of the misrepresentation of "game journalism" suffers nowadays. Polygon is evidence of that, where people don't go there to actually see a gameplay preview or a release date, they go there because it's the GO TO place for how hard they'll shit all over the next popular thing coming up.
Look at the shitshow Pokemon Go went through, with all the headlines even at your local newspapers being all about how some black dude ran across the street to get a pikachu and got ran over by a truck, so this clearly means the game is racist and Nintendo is against BLM.
>>345279535
>Those who do their job well don't get to stand out.
>Of course it's good for any journalist to have some kind of notoriety, but that's through a job well done
I know this might sound contradictory, but I believe competence and knowledge will eventually make people know you. The audience will surely look forward to your input as time goes by and you stand firm in your moral guidelines in things like lewd/violent content in videogames, personal taste in specific game genres being compatible with your audience's and so on.
As with plenty of other things in life, doing stuff the "right way" is way harder to do and takes a considerably longer time, but the rewards aren't ephemeral.
>>345280636
Of course, this is all coming from a salty greenhorn who listened to so many fairy tales all the way through grad only to see massive pageview counts being given to cheap lewd stuff and controversies.
It's not "some" people who just want to watch the world burn. They are actually the majority. Normies REEE
