Gaming Magazines... What's the deal?

[elprincipe]

SilentWolf said:

@elprincipe

The problem is that most internet sites are just as biased(if not more) as the magazines. More often than not, I have found that magazines are easier ways to get the truth about current events(or at least the closest to the truth).

This is true.  I've read some horribly biased reviews on purportedly reputable sites such as Gamespot...so many, in fact, that I no longer even look at their reviews at all since they are worthless.  I don't think magazines are any better (for an excellent example realize that Game Informer, a magazine owned by Gamestop, a store dedicated to pushing the next big game, rated State of Emergency an 8.5/10).  However, the news portions of these sites are just as good as magazines, although usually what goes with the territory of video game "journalism" is poorly written tripe that does a passable-at-best job of describing said news.  So I'd say don't get your news from one source, and take everything written on sites like IGN or Gamespot with more than one grain of salt.