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Jarrod Mawson
17 Mar, 2011

Third screenshot for Mass Effect 2: Arrival DLC

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21 Comments
1 year ago
ok I can't even fanwank anything for this. It's a building... it's rainy.

What the **** bioware?
1 year ago
Talk about ekeing out more press coverage... =P
1 year ago
If that wasn't marked with the ME2 logo I would have assumed it was a shot from Halo: Reach.
1 year ago
What? Why? Huh? WTF?

Why are there daily posts about someone releasing a screen shot? EA/Bioware is trolling the entire gaming community here and the media is falling right into it.
1 year ago
moonhead wrote
What? Why? Huh? WTF?

Why are there daily posts about someone releasing a screen shot? EA/Bioware is trolling the entire gaming community here and the media is falling right into it.
Because it is our job to post media, news, and reviews, and this is media, thus it gets posted.
1 year ago
I think you can show some discretion. Like maybe not post one screenshot a day for 3 days.
1 year ago
don't listen to em Jarrod, I'm hanging out for these screen shots as pathetic as they are.
1 year ago
Wow. PALGN is either too slow at posting news, or now too fast...

Gamers, there's no pleasing them.
1 year ago
Nietzsche wrote
I think you can show some discretion. Like maybe not post one screenshot a day for 3 days.
Or I could post them when they come out because it really makes no difference.

I mean, if you're that susceptible to blatant advertising and marketing, it's really not my job to hold your hand. Either look at them or don't.
1 year ago
Blame EA, not PALGN =P
1 year ago
Well, the multi-million dollar developers/publishers have the poor-as-hell games media over a barrel. If you don't cover their p!ss-poor PR stunts and lame photos, they complain and will lock you out of exclusives, giveaways, early access to their games and so on.

What you get is an industry populated by people who have to copy and paste the developer's PR just to survive.

It's a criticism of an industry that is now so big and powerful that it has outgrown the media that in other industries would keep it in check and from being the bloated monster it is now.
1 year ago
JP2daMC wrote
It's a criticism of an industry that is now so big and powerful that it has outgrown the media that in other industries would keep it in check and from being the bloated monster it is now.
You say that like the same thing doesn't happen with most other forms of media. Look at most movie blogs.
1 year ago
If you only look at blogs perhaps. But there are many more profitable magazines and newspapers that employ actual entertainment journalists and trained writers to do more than just copy and paste.

Magazines like Empire, Rolling Stone etc will - to a degree - actually expose any corruption or lame/dirty PR tactics. Apart from magazines, lots of newspapers and TV stations also have entertainment reporters paid to actually find the good AND the bad. That simply doesn't happen much from the games media because it is poorly paid and not investigative in nature. Plus there is no celebrity angle.

If they cover games, most newspapers and entertainment mags doa really basic job.

If a movie doesn't get coverage in the top few major media outlets, it would probably tank, so they depend on the media and the media depends on it. It's a lot harder for them to manipulate a media that has its own powerful and recognisable people. Even in Australia we have David and Margaret, Angela Bishop and the like who no smart studio would threaten.

I'm not sure that a game would tank if the top few game sites and magazines offered minimal coverage because the power is spread out so thinly. The target market for games is also generally more tech savvy and not traditional consumers of TV and nerwspapers. We get our game news from many different places, including straight from the games company websites themselves. Plus there are no real celebrity game writers who hold much power.
1 year ago
touché, kind of sad I'd forgotten there was media reporting that isn't done on the net.
1 year ago
Ha ha because we're young (ish) and tech-savvy.

But the negative effect is that we as consumers aren't giving anyone in the games media a lot of power (or money) to put the pressure back on the game PR agencies. TV and newspapers still have that power. Plus it helps that most major media outlets also have a stake in a movie company, so they try and dig dirt on each other which keeps the industry balanced.
1 year ago
Guys. It's a screenshot. The article title says that it's a single screenshot. If you don't want to see it, don't open the article.

Crisis averted?
1 year ago
I wish to also contribute to the Bioware bashing. *bash bash* lame PR stunt *bash bash*
1 year ago
Of course we could all be missing the "bigger" picture so to speak
1 year ago
I'm not that angry, perhaps a lesser word, annoyed, no, that's still too strong. Something less than annoyed, I think it's smart on EA's part and if Palgn does suffer if it doesn't post than by all means I like a site with content than not.

Also it's just a screenshot, I don't really care.
1 year ago
Folks, you realise that we're not a priority for review code, don't you?

This applies to EA just as much as a smaller publisher. I reviewed three of their biggest games over the past twelve months; Medal of Honor, FIFA 11 and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Did we give them coverage before they were released? Yes.
Did EA acknowledge us? No.

That's life, get over it. We report news because we like news and we love games even more. Judging by some of these posts, you'd swear that there's a whole lot more going on behind the scenes. Let me tell you, there isn't.
1 year ago
KP - it's a broader issue we were discussing than this one screenshot, but point made.

Just for the record, I wasn't talking about PALGN particularly Cian, but raising the broader issue of how games media are forced to be an extension of a publisher's PR firm and be pressured in covering games. I didn't count PALGN in the top games media outlets, as good as the site is. Although I know it has happened to PALGN too.
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