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Stand Aside Yahtzee, Anne Diamond Stole Our Hearts

We're always on the lookout for the next entertaining review talent...even if it's not meant to be funny. These parental reviews from British TV personality Anne Diamond are absolutely perfect Friday reading. It's her sincere, unadulterated disgust for the content that makes her reviews so fantastic. Hit the jump for a bonus review. More »

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Game Reviewers Scientifically Proven to be Useless

Following outcry against similar results of a smaller study conducted last year, Susquehanna Financial Group's Video Game Journal once again took to the facts to try and find a correlation between game sales and the opinions of game reviewers. More »

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Firing Squad's Five Problems With Game Journalism

Firing Squad outlines some beef with game journalism in an article they posted today. The five problems (in this diagnosis) are Innovation Bias, Reviewers Have to Rush Through the Game, Not Enough Time to Think Before You Write, Selection Bias and a Distorted Sense of Value. Check out the Firing Squad piece, see if you agree or disagree with it and come back here and tell us what (if any) problems you think plague video game journalism. More »