As you may be aware, we just started a little thing called “Media Outlets” on the top of the page. This is going to be step one in the metamorphoses of this site.

We are going to change our focus of the site from reporting gaming news into reporting about those that DO the reporting. In other words, the news ABOUT the news. Since the Media Watch has been a hit one way or another with a lot of visitors, I considered expanding it to the basis of the site, and instead do here what TV Newser does with cable news outlets like MSNBC: talk about the personalities that write for them, and analyze the reporting of various stories. Opinions will still be here, including my DP Thoughts, Special Comments, and Worst Persons, but this, to me, would be a much better way to serve the gaming community at a time where such a site is needed.

Stay tuned for more developments on this change of focus.

Gauntlet has been thrown down. Or at least, it sounds like it.

As you are probably well aware, Valve angered about 30,000 plus (and at this rate, it’ll grow to a hundred times that before the game launches) when they announced Left 4 Dead 2 at E3. They all formed a Steam Community Group saying that they were boycotting the game: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2boycott.

Now, apparently, someone has decided to counter. According to Blend Games (which the author of its story seems ready to agree with the latter, even refusing to link you to the boycott page, calling THEM “whiners” and that they “don’t deserve anymore hits”, along with them hoping that other outlets pick this story up. Too bad they didn’t say how other outlets would react), about 500 members have joined a “L4D2 Enthusiast Group”. This is basically a “PRO-cott” group to counter the boycott one. Democracy is here, right: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2Enthusiasts

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I’m having a big problem with trying to get my head around this Ghostbusters Ps3 vs. 360 issue. Quite frankly because I’m having some issues with how the media is taking this. I’ve read the Ars Technica article, and from what I’ve seen, they were trying so hard to dissolve Terminal Reality (TR) of any blame, making it all about the PS3 hardware (and this had absolutely nothing to do with the hardware until the AT article came up…well, that and TR trying to pass off the blame). We have TR trying to make excuses, and we have fanboys making a battle ground out of a game no one gave a shit about until this all started.

So yeah, I’m left with a few possible reasons why this is going on. Either this is something the “let’s bash the PS3 anyway we can” crowd is using because it has nothing else to use, Terminal Reality didn’t know how to program, or this was a well-crafted way to sabotage the PS3 in the worst way possible.

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