| Lauster said: Did you read his book "Opening the Xbox" ? It's a good job of journalistic investigation. You can be one of the best recognized journalists about the video game industry without being a skilled player. |
Being a good journalist on topic of videogame BUSINESS, or hardware or software engineering doesn't mean you're qualfied to write about games themselves. The problem is that "general status" is being used to qualify writes instead of actual direct competence of subject matter at hand. Having other professional or personal accomplishments isn't a reason why he should be commissioned for article instead of a more qualified person. Note I'm not saying only very skilled gamers should write game reviews, addressing casual gamer intro level gameplay is fine. But this guy can't even manage that level of competence, and he thusly lets article become distracted from actually relevant perspectives to the results of his dull-head minute-long banging into a column.
