Garcian Smith on 26 March 2008
Both are a joke, really. IGN's editing is horrible, and they often cave into hype for big games. Gamespot lost all of their good reviewers after Gerstmann-gate, so any pre-2007 review from them is still good, but new ones aren't.
I prefer 1UP and Eurogamer myself, mostly because they're harsh reviewers who "tell it like it is," but I might be alone in that respect.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
