Michelle

The idea of the need for video game criticism sounded familiar, then I remembered why - Chuck Klosterman already wrote about it in Esquire magazine months ago.

quote:
"And that, ultimately, is why the absence of video-game criticism is a problem. If nobody ever thinks about these games in a manner that's human and metaphorical and contextual, they'll all become strictly commodities, and then they'll all become boring. They'll only be games. And since we've already agreed that video games are the new rock music, we'd be facing a rather depressing scenario: This generation's single most meaningful artistic idiom will be—ultimately—meaningless.

There is a void, but there is still time to fill it. Somebody needs to become the first significant Xbox critic, stat. If nothing else, I'm sure he'll get rich. "
from:
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/060610_mfe_July_06_Klosterman.html