Gamearena, What is going on?

Gamearena, what are you guys doing? I was all fired up for a hard core year from you guys, but not much is happening. You provided us with the "holier than now speech" by Richie Young. Where he was critical of the gaming media and, in particular, gaming journalists. He accused the industry of being involved in a "cash for comments" type affair in general with gaming publishers. He was prepared to take the criticism from his peers as a result of this piece (and there was a lot of it). Gamearena has paid some artistic people a lot of money to revamp their website. Yet, they are just not providing the content. Why spend all of this money and then let the most important part (the content) let you down.

There is so much going on in gaming at the moment. There is so much to talk about. This year is a bumper year for releases. It is a massive year. I think it is one of the biggest years we've ever had in gaming. We have three excellent consoles which are fighting with each other for marketplace supremacy. Gaming is now viewed at political level and is a bigger industry than Hollywood with more gamers now than ever before.

But what are they giving us? No offence Justin, but your list of games was just another list of excellent games. Even though you prefaced it with, "It made me realise just how much in this egalitarian world of the web, how these kind of 'best of' lists tend to annoy more than anything."

Come on guys, you all consider yourselves to be journalists why don't you contribute something to the great body of work which is becoming gaming journalism? The Australian gaming industry is bigger than ever yet is embattled on a number of fronts. The gaming magazine industry is embattled. Internet readerships are up. There is more to write about than ever before and what are you actually contributing?

I couldn't think of a better time to be a writer in this industry.