The links just keep on coming

Since I find these links interesting, I thought you might find them interesting as well. Imagine that.



1) Remember when I told you "stay tuned for news" about a video game style guide. Well... that news is here! Along with the IGJA, I have taken it upon myself to start a collaborative, video game style guide. Basically it's just a message board where we'll discuss various style entries that people can propose, and in doing so eventually work out some official style guidelines. It'll only work if we get a lot of people interested and posting on it, though, so help out! The actual style guide forum is here. Read the Style Guide Style Guide first so you know the format for posting, and feel free to consult The Big List for ideas on what to write about.



2) Ombudsman reader Brian Crecente over at the Rocky Mountain News has informed me that he has a new blog about gaming, appropriately called red-assed babboon (don't ask me why it's appropriate, but I'm assuming it is). He takes an interesting look at many important game issues, but what will especially interest readers of this blog is his discussion of AP style guidelines for computer/video games (fourth story down on the page).



3) An e-mailer referring to himself as "The GameCube Guy" has pointed me to his website -- GameCubeGuy.com -- as "a site devoted to Nintendo humor/satire/entertaining articles."



The beginning premise for this site is based off my own personal hatred of what modern gaming websites have become. From one site to another, the news stories are identical. Every site either gets their news from a common press release or snatches it like vultures from the first site to carry the story. In an effort to seem like supreme content bearers, every site also posts anything they can get their hands on, despite the fact nobody on Earth gives a damn.



The thing that struck me about the site is how similar it reads to many real GameCube sites. Deadpan parody at its best.



Midterm week is coming up, so real posts are going to become more scarce for a while ("More scarce then they are now?" you ask incredulously. "How is that possible?") Why not use the time to post some thoughtful threads on the Style Guide!