Posts tagged Ben-Fritz

Variety: Sony may be 'too artsy for its own good'

by Andrew Yoon (Jan 15th 2009 8:45PM)

Variety's Ben Fritz ponders why Sony's PS3 hasn't been able to become more of a mainstream success. Obviously, price comes into play, but he offers another option: it may be "too artsy for its own good." What does that mean? Fritz looks at a few examples. He looks at LittleBigPlanet, arguably ...

Variety judge disagrees with majority of E3 award winners, loves public drunkenness

by Kevin Kelly (Aug 12th 2008 4:00PM)

Ben Fritz writes about video games for Variety and was one of the E3 judges this year -- and he's not too happy with this year's winners. He calls Mirror's Edge "gimmicky" and the Gears of War 2 improvements "minor." He was really pulling for Resistance 2, which he felt offered up a lot more than ...

IGN responds to concerns over exclusive GTA IV review

by Kyle Orland (May 2nd 2008 12:15PM)

Earlier this week, Variety's Ben Fritz expressed concern over IGN's exclusive first review of Grand Theft Auto IV, asking rhetorically, "How can we trust a videogame review when the outlet running it has been given a major commercial favor ... from the publisher of the game?" Well, GameDaily Media ...