See, this is exactly what I was talking about in that other thread. Some of you guys take video games too seriously, whining about Wombat being "unprofessional" in a video game podcast is just absurd. Have you even heard a podcast that tries being professional? It's like sitting through a...
It's not that news is a bad addition to a podcast, but that's pretty much all the Hotspot has, outside of five minutes of listener questions. They don't even have a "watcha' been playin'?" segment added in, that's the least they could do with a gaming podcast. I'm not saying the Hotspot is a...
I understand that and I certainly wasn't defending the Destructoid podcast. I actually agree with everyone in this thread, they went a little too much in that direction. But podcasts like 1up Yours and the CAGcast have a nice blend of news and non-news gaming discussion in it, while a podcast...
The Hotspot is a snoozefest compared to 1up Yours. I agree that IGN's podcasts are a huge waste of time, though. But some of you really need to lighten up a bit, not everything involved with gaming has to be serious business.
:applause:Brilliant logic there, champ. So you found a couple of previews you disagreed with so they must ALL be wrong now, huh? Let me guess, editors at websites/magazines are robots who can never possibly make a mistake once in a while? I didn't realize perfection came along with being an...
A journalist doesn't have to be a person who seeks out news. A journalist is a person who collects or reports/writes the news. That's all it takes to be a journalist by defition of nearly any dictionary out there.
And that does happen, but it's almost always presented as things we like to call...