Game Devloper Editor Article
by Anthony Rosenbaum · in General Discussion · 04/03/2007 (7:51 am) · 2 replies
I was upset with this months Editor's article "Rise of the Game Engine" in Game Developer. It is obvious the editor reserved the majority of the article for companies which throw lots of advertising money at Game Developer magazine. The article's reserved several paragraphs for Unreal, which always has a several page spreads each month. Additionally other noted engines were Vicious Cycle and Valve's Source, both of which are also highly advertised. In fact Torque's only reference was
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At any rate, I have had direct experience with far worse than that when it comes to the relationship between the industry media sources (magazines specifically).
And I have heard of much worse from friends in the business then I have experienced. Stories of money and other favors changing hands to get coverage and to buy positive reviews.
I am sure the truth about the industry press as a whole falls some where between the very unfortunate things I have heard, and a perfect integrity.
04/03/2007 (8:20 am)
Is that the April issue? I have the March issue laying here but have not read it yet. I see that the editor article is "Serving Duty".At any rate, I have had direct experience with far worse than that when it comes to the relationship between the industry media sources (magazines specifically).
And I have heard of much worse from friends in the business then I have experienced. Stories of money and other favors changing hands to get coverage and to buy positive reviews.
I am sure the truth about the industry press as a whole falls some where between the very unfortunate things I have heard, and a perfect integrity.
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