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He's taken shots at Polygon for what he sees as its failure to actually love the medium it's covering, singling out an excerpt published on the site from Phil Owen's book, WTF Is Wrong With Video Games?: "One conclusion is that I wish the book were re-titled WTF Is Wrong with Video Game Journalism: How Gaming Critics Refuse to Grow Up".
Bill Kunkel, who helped invent video game journalism and create the first video game magazine in the United States, died on Sunday at his home in White Lake, Mich.
When I started writing about these things in 1995, video game journalism was still in its infancy – most magazines were like a cross between fanzines and catalogues; they guided fans toward the games they should purchase.
They argue for "ethics in game journalism" while claiming to not be journalists themselves.
As for quality video game journalism, I 100percentt without hesitation recommend Edge, a UK publication that reads like Vanity Fair or the New Yorker; I downlaod it every now and then.
In speaking to Joystiq, he also tried to defend video game journalism (that is, journalism about video games) saying, "to mean that game writing is ethically bankrupt, I don't feel that's the case".
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