Why Video Game Magazines Kill Me
by Zube (zube@stat.colostate.edu)
Created:  Feb 21, 2009
Updated:  Feb 22, 2009
http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~zube/vgkillme.txt

In the January 2008 issue of GamePro, Senior Editor Sid Shuman talks of
how the magazine ditched its "editorial personas", those juvenile
aliases whose whole purpose was to convey an obviously false image of
hip and cool.  Indeed, if you listen closely, you can almost hear the
cries for help in such names as "Major Mike", "Mr. Marbles", "Vicious
Sid" and "Zube".

Mr Shuman writes that the dropping of these personas, "... shows how gaming 
as a whole is getting a bit older and, hopefully, wiser."

Uh huh.  Now turn the magazine past the two two-page adverts.  We arrive at
a section called _Opening Shots_ and subtitled _Your Screen Shot Gateway
To Gaming_.  This is actually encouraging:  screen shots of games captioned 
with only the title of the game and the platform.  Perhaps things
really have chang ... oh, wait.  There is a screen shot of Tekken 6 with 
the following caption:

"I see London.  I see France.  I see Julia's underpants."

Yep, older and wiser.