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Although it might not come up as often as it should in the day-to-day of a working journalist, it helps to know that videogame theory exists.

Researchers and game designer Jesper Juul maintains a handy resource that deserves a place in your reference bookmarks:

Half-Real: A Dictionary of Video Game Theory

This dictionary of video game theory is a companion to my book, Half-Real. With the dictionary, I hope to provide a resource for students, researchers, teachers, and game players looking for terminological clarifications and pointers to further reading.

While many of the terms remain specific to the academic or theoretical domains, the guide can also help clear up misunderstandings when you feel the need to scribe about “emergent gameplay.” Juul can at least point you in the right direction.

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Although it has been available for months as an ebook, wiki and directly from the publishing service, no book feels real until it is available on Amazon.

Amazon.com: The Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual: Books: Kyle Orland,Scott Steinberg,Dave Thomas

Now that the Videogame Style Guide has graced the pages of the world biggest online retailer, it’s open season on public comments,  wish listing and all manner of input from the masses.

Enjoy.

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Kotaku writer Mark Wilson chimes in on the topic of videogame reviews:

Reviews: Video Game Reviews Are Broken, Please Fix

(I)t’s become more and more obvious that the video game review system is dated, limiting and even, at times, unintentionally condescending.

While the article is a shorthand summary of arguments that have been boiling for the past several years, what is more interesting is the feedback in the comments section. Never shy about wearing their hardcore cred on their sleeve, the Kotaku commentors seem generally pleased to see Wilson whipping the current game review process and culture. That’s good news. Because as almost any editor can tell you, changing the way games are reviewed is mired primarily in fan expectation. We know about about fixing the problem. But at this point, publications and Web sites that make their bread and butter selling game reviews don’t have a real interest in educating their audience. Until the audience demands more than a component breakdown and a score, game reviews will remain saddled with serving up pablum.

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Another voice weighs in on the topic of numerical ratings for games:

Nintendo World Report - Editorial: On Ratings

This is a crisis moment for modern art, where the melding of consumerism and artistry has created a group of movie-goers, musicheads, and gamers who believe that art can be rated on an objective scale. The idea of applying ratings to paintings or sculptures (even modern ones) is pretty unthinkable. Though it has taken thousands of years, no one today would question the cultural validity of paintings or sculptures as a medium.

While writer Evan Burchfield doesn’t say it, his argument boils down to another plea to pull art back from the clutches of the positivist forces of science. You can’t put love under a microscope and you can’t say anything meaningful about a game with the numbers 1-10.

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As the Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual continues to filter into new spaces, places and communities, it was only natural that eventually it would garner some academic interest.

Sociologist Mike Moleworth took the time to read, and comment on the guide.

CEMP Interactive media community: The videogame style guide

Could it be that the generation of such a guide is an example of a trend to legitimise videogame playing activity that results from the original game generation now finding themselves in significant positions of authority?

His brief analysis provides interesting insight into the larger meaning of the guide as cultural artifact.

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A few recent events highlight the trouble with schwag.

Dean Takahashi: Halo 3 press kit “nothing less than a bribe” - Xbox 360 News - QJ.NET

Microsoft has been sending out Halo 3 press packages worth US$ 800 to various gaming journalists. San Jose Mercury News game journalist Dean Takahashi, who received one of the packages, pointed out that this move was “nothing less than a bribe to try to get me to be favorably inclined to accepting the idea that Halo 3 is ‘the entertainment event of the year.’”

Meanwhile, a Kotoku reader asked a reasonable question after a write accepted a free ride on a plane to simulate zero gravity at an event promopting the new MMO Tabula Rasa:

Zero G Flight: Flight of Anti-Gravity - Kotaku

I’ve got an honest question: Is there a limit to the type of “swag” that you guys are allowed to accept before you feel that your opinions might be swayed as an organization?

The easy answer is that plane rides worth a reported $3500 or $800 bundles of stuff are obviously too much. But when is a gift small enough not to matter? $50? $5? Fifty cents?

One answer is that anything is too much. But that bounces up against the reality that purchasing review copies of games would most likely chill the interest in certain types of games (how many My Little Pony games get reviewed in the first place?). Besides, relationships with companies and press people probably do more to influence opinion and editorial direction more than any freebies.

Another answer from the other end of the spectrum is that anything is OK, as long as you are honest with the readers. But this ignores that at a certain point, you can’t even feign fairness if someone has flown you and your family off to a vacation to review some product.

So, is there a happy medium? Maybe not. But as the landscape of media and journalism shifts in the rush tide of new technology, revisiting the notion of ethics seems like something worth doing.

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Big news sometimes slips in through seemingly innocuous stories:

Business Casual: GameStop COO Says Casual Fans Are New Priority - Kotaku

Daniel DeMatteo, vice chairman and COO of GameStop, tells the New York Times that non-hardcore gamers are “playing a more important role” in the current video game buying demographic and that the company is “having to retool the way we think of things in our stores in terms of merchandising, layout and also customer service because it is no longer only the hardcore gamer walking in who knows exactly what he wants.”

The game journalism world is built around the notion of the “hard core gamer.” People who make games are expected to be serious gamers, the people that buy them are expected to be serious fans and the people that cover them are, likewise, expected to represent the hard core.

What happens when the hard core isn’t the most important part of the market?

As the game consumer profile develops, the idea of gamers writing about games for gamers starts to soften. Sure, there will always remain an enthusiast market and, therefore, and enthusiast press. But the notion of “game journalist” will have to evolve to include “casual game journalists.” Yes, the day of game writers who play BioShock for a couple of hours before reviewing it for other people only interested in playing it for a couple of hours, or who drop into ‘t World of Warcraft for a couple of days in an effort to explain to people what their loved ones are doing all day in front of the computer, is here.

Of course, we don’t need a flood of poorly informed writers picking up the games as second hand beat. Rather, the game journalism community must continue to push for quality and and professionalism in game coverage while simultaneously dropping their nerd agenda. For more and more game writers, the task of game journalism will turn from hyping fellow fans to breaking down and interpreting the fun of gaming, to sharing the joy of tearing the cellophane off a brand new copy of  Halo 3 in terms other than, “Ohmygod Master Chief is sooo fricking cool in HD.”

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You might not think that the Cheap Ass Gamer is a a legitimate journalist. But recent events tell another story.

A recent flurry of legal activities pits Circuit City against the CAG in an effort to get the Web site to disclose user information so that CC can track down the person responsible for leaking store fliers.

For those not familiar with the practice, early release of big box store fliers has turned into a routine mechanism for online game sites to get info about price breaks, hardware and software specs and more. Because these fliers must be prepared in advance, in many cases leaking this information breaks an promised embargo to publishers, distributors and manufacturers.

Whether or not CC is successful, or if CAG can manage to oppose the retail giant’s demands remains to be seen.  But sense of humor and irreverent attitude aside, CAG finds itself in the center of a well-worn journalistic dilemma–the protection of sources.

This identical issue has raged around news and politics blogs. And it’s no surprise that it has found its way to gaming sites.

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Kotaku reports a gaffe in the New York Times that puts Ubisoft under the ownership of EA:

NYT: EA Owns Ubisoft

As we have mentioned before, one of the purposes of the Style Guide is to share “common knowledge” with reporters who don’t usually write about games. A quick peek at the “notable companies” section of the guide would have cleared up this claim.