[English]
By Karl Lilje
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You haven’t heard of the upcoming megarealease of Battlefield 3? You dumb noob! Go put on your Gilly suit and watch GameSpot’s kickass behind-the-scenes interviews with the hardcore devs at Dice… megadevs like Lars Gustavson, currently the smartest dorkgod in gaming. There’s lots of sneak peek gameplay footage and never-before-seen tech demos. Drool! Battlefield3 is hard. Well hard. It’s also really, really beautiful in its gritty realism and gameplay. Go look: Gamespot.com
There, don’t you feel more L33T already?
Image courtesy of www.battlefield.com
Now punch yourself in the face from excitement and hop over to NAG magazine’s site (www.NAG.co.za) where Alice is under the scope. YES, there is a new Alice game! To be released on 17 June. In case you’ve forgotten, Alice is the wild and mad (no! mental) sleeper hit game from American McGee that is rated 17+ for violence, gore, and other fun stuff.
Then contrast that with NAG Magazine’s…umm…”review” of Battlefield3 in which the writers fail miserably at their assignment, choosing to slagwhine the game’s download system instead. There is promise of a full review of the game in March 2011, but in true NAG SA fashion only an empty space haunts the site. Battlefield3 is the biggest game release of all time and NAG are caught napping with their pants down. Go look. (www.nag.co.za).
Just look at how NAG hodge-podged their write-ups about Battlefield3:
The review that was not about the game but about how the game is distributed / the downloader
The review they copy-pasted from EA.com (Electronic Arts website) - Experts have a name for this type of tatty, churned out PR parading under the name of ‘journalism’ … They call it churnalism!
PS: If you didnt really understand what the hell was going on in this post, then clearly you’re in need of some geek-ucation. Look out for our upcoming Kultuur Gappy and Stylvol in die Stad stories in which we’ll give you the low-down on some frequently used geek speak gaming jargon as well as 10 hot Geek-chic T-shirts which are guaranteed to get you grinning. Don’t miss it!
