I myself like the fact that gaming is mainstream and there's a lot of people to game with, but reading this I can now understand what's causing dislike for this recent trend. But here's something that I've learned from journalism: The media sensationalizes stories to garner viewers.
This is why I think some review sites give different games different scores, because since Gamepro is one of the few sites that gave Too Human a 4/5 review (at least compared to the many others), that site got views.
I still blog on Gamespot, but I don't try to sensationalize everything I talk about unless I try to do so in a poormans-humorly way. Of course the only reason sites and magazines want more views is because it generates more revenue. So I don't think it's necessarily gone fanboy, I think gaming "journalism" has just gone the way of mainstream news sources like CNN and Fox News.
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