News, Updates, And Random Stuff

As you know, I'm going to cut back on my game reviews a little bit. The Independent magazine I work for printed my editorial, which caused some unexpected feedback: the publishers demanded that my editor force me to apologize to reviewers, fire me, or they stop publishing and funding us. My editor chose plan "D:" Find another backer and publisher, and keep me on staff. This means that the magazine is changing, which also means that we won't be doing many reviews. In fact, we aren't writing for gamers anymore, and are currently trying to get programmers and developers to buy subscriptions to the magazine. The purpose is to tell publishers and developers what gamers like and hate in games, so that they can get as many specifics as possible to improve their craft, instead of general flaws that are pointed at in most reviews (including my own).

That also means that our reviews on new games will be cut back to a few big names, but chances are that we'll have to play smaller names for research. Thankfully, this means I won't have to review a movie-based game, unless I get assigned an article about movie-based games. Which is very possible, especially with as much of a set back the Thor game was. Also, with my luck, I'll have to review the inevitable Saw III: Tobin Bell Has Bills To Pay, Bitches! At the same time, this gives us some good starting points as well. It's also a good excuse for me to go back to some old PS2 games I've been meaning to play.

One of the series of articles I'm planning is a series on bad games with good qualities, but done poorly. What I mean is this: the games are so bad that they're good, or they're playable and cheesy. I'm not shooting for anything that's impossibly hard or long, gamewise, here, either, so no RPG's. These games are the bottom of the barrel, your Evil Deads and Plan 9 from Outer Spaces of games. They suck, but you have to enjoy them because of it. Instead of focusing on gameplay, I'll focus on the stories more than anything. This is also supposed to be humorous.

On that note, Here's a list of where I'll be starting on it:

Brain Junkfood articles:

1: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
2: Dick Marcinko: Rogue Warrior
3: Soldier of Fortune: Payback
4: Mortyr: 2093-1944
5: Most Wanted: Bonnie and Clyde
6: A Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge
7: Reservoir Dogs
8: The DaVinci Code
9: Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
10: The Suffering: Ties That Bind

These aren't in order of when I'll do them, but the 50 Cent game is first up. Just a sample of what I'm working with here, at this point in time, after hearing 50 Cent say "Bitch!" no less than 2000 times, I'm pretty sure he may in fact be whiter than James May. Stay tuned!