Games satire

I made a website for it. Subtle humour, yo. If you've ever read The Onion or similar satirical output you should get it.

Feedback would be very much appreciated, as long as it isn't related to Brit language or references you don't get. You can send that, but I'll send a thousand pictures of dicks in reply. RSS and Facebook like at your pleasure; Twitter coming soon.

I'm also looking for people to help out, either managing the social media output or posting similar news or satirical colums/reviews. I've been featured on RPS before, if that persuades anyone. PM here or contact me on site.


This is basically advertising, but a) I've made threads like this before, b) I make no ad money and c) you all fucking love me

God damn it, britfuck, give the actual link. I want to judge you.

[Refuses to link it so here's the full address] http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/05/14/the-monday-papers-2 - see "A history of VG narrative". Original link is dead though. Site team got relocated to a new webzine, I'll have a Dishonored review on there when it launches in a couple weeks.

Here it is in a magazine style PDF though - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?juclksgbit63j9u

At first I thought you were too ashamed to attach your name to it, but then I noticed the Bullock's brand. Good on ya, mate.

As for your new playground:


Unless that was a sarcastic quip, then by the power delegated to me by Phoenix Wright, I call objec-BULLSHIT. I've read all the articles and they're mostly meh. "Meh" as in "okay." The one on the extended cut was my favorite for obvious reasons. Reasons that we both appreciate. My only problem with the articles is the horrendous spelling errors. Fucking Vince Goldman. Speaking of whom, is that your pseudonym? Hard not to suspect when I see that britnig write this shit (in addition to every article): "You’ll find that Batman has reach, but Robin has flexibility."

I probably fixed that on the website, but I submitted the magazine version as a uni piece close to deadline, as if I was going to proof read it.



Subtle in the sense that they aren't packed with jokes. They aren't meant to be be uproariously funny, it isn't Cracked. They're based around one central premise and then written up in news style. It is basically the Onion for games at the moment. There's a balance between being unbelievably wacky and believable but still entertaining, which I'm still grappling with.

If you consider it as niche specific emulation I don't think I'm doing too badly. I'm getting another writer on-board so that should ease the workload and ensure a more consistent quality. I realise that purely news writing does get tiresome to read as much as to write, and I want to do features as well, but they are incredibly time consuming.

I'm totally open to suggestions on how to improve. I obviously want people to enjoy it, otherwise I wouldn't spend time every day brainstorming and writing. But I need constructive feedback to do that.

What I would say is this - how many games humour sites are there right now? Because if you don't support sites while they're average to decent, they'll never get good. A community provides a shield as well as affirmation of the idea.

Like I said: spelling. I thought I taught you better, Dos.








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You won't find any here. I only demolish. I do it with all my 'murikan love, britnigga.



Then you know what you must do. May your visitor stats treat you well, and a comment materialize on an article. Hold on, I'm checking your archives and it actually looks like Gary decided to leave a choice comment for EA's execs. I wish people would call it BiowEAr. It's perfect, no?

Nicely spotted. The " should be inside the full stop since it's an insert, not a full quote.

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Speaking of brainstorming, here are some ideas:

• The DRM-free software GoG.com peddles are pirated.

• Sony sues Nintendo for ripping them off, claiming to have thought of it first. Nintendo invokes the "you snooze, you lose" policy.

• Shigeru Miyamoto arrested on child pornography charges for having concept art of unclothed young vidya characters.

• Indie dev accused of not being indie because it published its game.

• Significant contingent of gamers pledged to buy good games. CoD sales expected to be meager. EA changes business strategy to quality over mass appeal.

Your move.

1. When you consider that a lot of their old games are packaged with DOSbox, they practically are. Could work.
2. Thought of what first? Ninty/Sony stealing each other's ideas goes all the way back to SixAxis. Too generic.
3. Shigsy is untouchable and not enough people would get it
4. Could work, I almost went down that line with the Unfinished Swan article
5. Premise is too complicated to lede an article on

Because of my uni work, right now I mainly just look at gaming news and go 'what can I react to' as opposed to thinking up more intricate concepts. So sometimes they're a bit shit just because there wasn't much news on that day.

There's also the fact that not every idea will come to fruition. I usually have about four or five a day, and only write up one, just because I don't know where to go with a piece past the headline and introduction.

It's pretty tough to keep something funny and relevant throughout. With another writer I should be able to bounce ideas around and have a bit more freedom to write more varied stuff.

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