Where’s Dan Hsu?
Remember with Dan Hsu was calling game journalists on the gifts and junkets they received from publishers? Remember when he actually asked Peter Moore a few tough questions?
That was back in 2005. How come I haven’t heard anything like that since then? Have I missed the news? Are tough questions now so unremarkable as to not create a stir? Did the attempt at making game journalism respectable just not pan out?
July 24th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I have no idea what happened to Dan Hsu in particular, but yeah I think this just sort of died down after a minor blip. I don’t think I really go to the mainstream game publications at all anymore… or at best, I end up on fileplanet to download some patch or preview movie, after being directed there from some other site (generally speaking, penny-arcade, maybe blue’s news or evil avatar… your blog… game rankings…)
The sad thing is, of course, that these sites don’t get to ask tough questions either - or at best, they get to pose the question without having too much hope of an actual answer.
-geoff