During the 1960s a new type of journalism was born. This journalism differed from the norm in that rather than listing objective facts about any given piece of news it offered a first hand account of a event or occurrence offering subjective reactions in place of the objective facts. It was inevitable that after the creation of video games that the medium would be turned onto video games journalism.
Many popular pieces of new games journalism have been created but new games journalism as a genre has received much criticism. A site known as UKresistance made a post named 'seven- point manifesto on why it’s shit' The post went on to say that 'The writer is not the most important person' and 'Then shut up and go away'.
Critics said that new games journalism was not a valuable news source because of it's high subjectivity however I am of the opinion that a subjective form of journalism can have it's place. New games journalism cannot compete in terms or pure information but it need not replace old games journalism. New games journalism can be taken as a separate entity that provides more entertainment and humanity for the reader.
Old games journalism I feel will likely stay the more popular of the 2 forms of games journalism. Though new games journalism can be more entertaining journalism itself is created for the purpose of giving information and that is what drives people to journalism. It is only from there that people are introduced to the less information heavy new games journalism.
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