Other Gaming Blogs Worth Reading
Been meaning to highlight a couple of other blogs I think you’d enjoy reading, especially if you’re interested in the game industry. What I particularly like about both these blogs is that they’re written by professional journalists, and bring a significantly higher quality of writing and opinion. In a world where Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is “You”, it’s worth highlighting some of the better writing and thinking on the web.
You may also find these interesting because I can’t say I’m always in agreement with their opinions. I’ve known both N’Gai and Dean for years, going all the way back to my Intel days, and we’ve always had spirited discussions. There are points of agreement, but I wanted to highlight that you’ll definitely find a different viewpoint here than many of my opinions. Hopefully you’ll take some of those and incorporate it into the overall conversation.
First off is Dean Takahashi’s blog. Dean writes for the San Jose Mercury News, and his blog seems to be a combination of extended versions of his newspaper articles as well as his own opinion. You may also know him as the author of “Opening the Xbox”. Dean definitely isn’t one to pull his punches when writing about the Xbox, but he does have some great sources in the industry and you’ll definitely find some fun stuff here. Worth watching.
Second is N’Gai Croal’s “Level Up” blog. N’Gai (other than winning the award for coolest name) writes for Newsweek. I’ve know N’Gai for a long time, and I’ve always appreciated his very strong opinions as well as the reasoned backing he has for them. I’ll be upfront and say that I often disagree with him, especially when it comes to Sony, but I also have to be fair and say that when we discuss different issues I can’t discount many of the points he brings up. It usually comes down to a mutual “guess we’ll have to see” sort of agreement… as well as a good excuse for dinner at the next trade show.
Take a read of both these blogs. Both N’Gai and Dean approach their blogs from a bit more of a journalist’s perspective, and I think you’ll find their perspective refreshing – even when they’re horribly wrong. (Yes, that was tongue in cheek!) 
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do you know if XB360 has reached 10million yet…
Thanks Ozy – and, as a bonus they both have an rss feed, so I could add them to my home page (http://www.tfd.com) right under you, and above the quickly slipping Major Nelson.
I don’t know about this N’Gai Croal, did you see what he posted about you Oz?
http://ncroal.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=387439
Unrelated to this post; I wanted to wish you a happy new year and hope to read much more on this blog in 2007 (and beyond).
I don’t care what N’Gai Croal said in that post of his, we’re all entitled to our opinions and just ’cause you found some bad things about the PS3 and decided to post them, doesn’t make you anti-Sony/pro-Microsoft. He made it sound like you were only searching for bad stuff to post, but isn’t that part of what every reviewer does? Post about good and bad aspects of whatever it is they’re reviewing?
Sounds to me like mr. Croal wouldn’t make a good beta tester if he doesn’t want to look for the negatives in a product and tell people about it. And it definitely makes his blog far less interesting for me to read.
Re: "I don’t know about this N’Gai Croal, did you see what he posted about you Oz?"
Yep – but as others have said, everyone’s entitled to his/her own opinion. You’ll note the primary thrust of his entry was asking where Sony was in the blogging conversation online. It’s a great question we’re all still waiting to hear an answer to.
As to N’Gai, we still talk and argue about the industry as we always have, and as is often the case, we’ll just have to wait and see who is right. A lot of his opinions have good reasoning behind them, even if I don’t always agree with his conclusions. Time will tell!
RE: Other Gaming Blogs Worth Reading
… with another fine steak dinner on the line. This time around my good friend N’Gai Croal of Newsweek’s