My pesky category selection finally drove me to the point of some moderate restructuring, and now I’m finally happy about it. Here’s what I did:<\/p>\n
I did this because firstly, classifying my writing on the textual analysis of games as solely begin critique is too limiting. I consider what I write about games as being more of \u201cthis is something interesting that maybe others haven’t talked about, let’s poke at that a little\u201d<\/em>. I guess it’s sometimes more like criticism of one aspect of a game, or comparatively tying a game to something external, like culture. In this regard, discussion is a better choice of words, anyways, using the noun critique to classify my writing contains a certain degree of bigotry in this current climate, so I think I’ll only use it as a verb occasionally.<\/p>\n Editorial = one dude giving his opinions, industry issues is strictly industry related. It was recommended to me maybe a year ago to remove the word ‘editorial’ from the site slogan because it denotes seriousness and perhaps boredom. It’s good advice, but truth is, I write a whole bunch of this stuff, and if anyone finds the commentaries boring then they’ll likely find the rest of the site boring too. So rack off!<\/p>\n The other categories more or less explain themselves. Although I want to note that analysis does not involve games themselves (that’s game discussion!) rather issues, videos and so forth. Phew, all of that is sorted out.<\/p>\n I’ve also added a few more links to the blogroll over the past few weeks. I may as well point them out here: The Artful Gamer<\/a>, Game Critics<\/a>, Eurogamer<\/a>, Crispy Gamer<\/a>, 1UP’s RPG Blog (The Grind)<\/a> and 1UP’s Retro Gaming Blog (Retronauts blog)<\/a>. These are all some of my favourite sites, whose linkage is well overdue. So check them out. I’ve also been back using delicious<\/a> for random bookmarks, some that I share here in Link Out<\/a>, some not. So if you’re interested in better things to read, try there. And that’s another shallow site update.<\/p>\nIndustry Issues -> Editorial<\/h3>\n