Games Journalism Prizes http://gamesjournalismprize.com Recognising the best writing about videogames. Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:20:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The Final Shortlists Revealed. http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-final-shortlists-revealed/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-final-shortlists-revealed/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:19:10 +0000 admin http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=285 Investigative  / News Death by gaming: an investigation into the Taiwan café fatalities by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer End Game by Jason Schwartz at the Boston Magazine The Rise and Collapse of Yoshinori Ono by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer How…
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End Game by Jason Schwartz at the Boston Magazine
The Rise and Collapse of Yoshinori Ono by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer
The Truth Behind Shag A Gamer by Steve Hogarty at PCGamesN
Free Radical vs. the Monsters by Rich Stanton at Eurogamer
Who Killed Rare? by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer
Feature / Other
Allow Natural Death by Jenn Frank at Unwinnable
Oceans Away! by Chris Dahlen at Unwinnable
Confessions of a middle-aged games writer by Keith Stuart at Hookshot Inc.
I was a Teenage Sexist by Jenn Frank at Unwinnable.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Shooter by Tom Bissell at Grantland
Night and the city by Christian Donlan at Eurogamer
Reviews / Criticism
No piece attracted enough votes to make it onto the shortlists. We will not be giving a prize for reviews this year.

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]]> http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-final-shortlists-revealed/feed/ 0 Shortlists http://gamesjournalismprize.com/shortlists/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/shortlists/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:12:41 +0000 admin http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=283 Okay, the judges have finished voting on the longlist. I’m going to try to see how they’ve voted and take a fair topslice which will be our shortlists. They should be up within the week. Dan

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]]> Okay, the judges have finished voting on the longlist. I’m going to try to see how they’ve voted and take a fair topslice which will be our shortlists. They should be up within the week.

Dan

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]]> http://gamesjournalismprize.com/shortlists/feed/ 0 Voting Update http://gamesjournalismprize.com/voting-update/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/voting-update/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:27:36 +0000 admin http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=274 I’d hoped to be able to reveal the winner by now, but the large number of submissions means that the judges are still ploughing through them. I’ll put an update here as to the likely announcement date when we finally…
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]]> I’d hoped to be able to reveal the winner by now, but the large number of submissions means that the judges are still ploughing through them. I’ll put an update here as to the likely announcement date when we finally get the shortlists sorted.

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]]> http://gamesjournalismprize.com/voting-update/feed/ 0 The Last of the Longlist: 10/10 http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-99/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-99/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:59:16 +0000 Dan Griliopoulos http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=171 The Unfinished Swan Review by Alex C at The Sixth Axis Conflict Minerals and the Game Industry: The Problem by Robert Rath at The Escapist The Life-Changing $20 Rightward-Facing Cow by Leigh Alexander at Kotaku Borderlands 2 might be funny but it’s no…
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  • The Unfinished Swan Review by Alex C at The Sixth Axis
  • Conflict Minerals and the Game Industry: The Problem by Robert Rath at The Escapist
  • The Life-Changing $20 Rightward-Facing Cow by Leigh Alexander at Kotaku
  • Borderlands 2 might be funny but it’s no comedy by Tom Auxiere at Nightmare Mode
  • Creation Under Capitalism and The Twine Revolution by Porpentine at Nightmare Mode
  • No Exit: How Games Can Change Us by Mattie Brice at Nightmare Mode
  • Saving Zelda by Tevis Thompson at his blog.

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    ]]>     http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-99/feed/ 0     The Last of the Longlist 9/10 http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:01:19 +0000 admin http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=206 My Unfinished Swan by Jill Scharr at Unwinnable The Importance of Ugliness by Stu Horvath at Unwinnable Nomen Ludi by Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing Dad, I Sacrificed the Babysitter by Chris Dahlen at Unwinnable In The Name of the Father: Metal Gear Solid by…
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  • My Unfinished Swan by Jill Scharr at Unwinnable
  • The Importance of Ugliness by Stu Horvath at Unwinnable
  • Nomen Ludi by Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing
  • Dad, I Sacrificed the Babysitter by Chris Dahlen at Unwinnable
  • In The Name of the Father: Metal Gear Solid by Sean McGeady at Pixels or Death
  • Gaming Made Me: Fallout 2 by Patricia Hernandez at RockPaperShotgun
  • It Made Me Want To Drown Things by Cara Ellison at Unwinnable
  • Game Over: How Sanctions and Violence Doomed Syria’s Gaming Industry by Andrew Groen at Ars Technica
  • How Game Design Works / Doesn’t Work: A Lesson From the ‘What Would Molydeux?’ Gamejam by Ludwigg Kietzmann at Joystiq
  • Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line by Brendan Keogh at Stolen Projects

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    ]]>     http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist/feed/ 0     The Last of the Longlist: 8/10 http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-89/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-89/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:46:57 +0000 Dan Griliopoulos http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=158 Why Horror Games Aren’t Dead and Buried by Daniel Krupa at IGN The search for a perfect Battlefield by Will Porter at Continue Walking with the dead: how war shaped Day Z’s zombies by Emily Gera at Polygon Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: How ScummVM’s…
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  • Why Horror Games Aren’t Dead and Buried by Daniel Krupa at IGN
  • The search for a perfect Battlefield by Will Porter at Continue
  • Walking with the dead: how war shaped Day Z’s zombies by Emily Gera at Polygon
  • Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: How ScummVM’s unpaid coders kept adventure gaming alive by Richard Moss at Ars Technica
  • The sky isn’t falling: Why game retailers aren’t headed for disaster by Tracey Lien at Polygon
  • Backlash to reality: Should war games be based on real events? by Andrew Laughlin at Digital Spy
  • Indie Game: The Movie: The Review  by Liz Ryerson at Midnight Resistance
  • To Protect or Serve by Rick Lane at IGN
  • Designing Rapture by Jason Killingsworth at Edge
  • Untold riches: the brilliance of Half-Life’s barnacles by Hamish Todd at Destructoid

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    ]]>     http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-89/feed/ 0     The Last of the Longlist: 7/10 http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-79-borg-special/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-79-borg-special/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:43:31 +0000 Dan Griliopoulos http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=160 For Women Like You by Patricia Hernandez at Bit Creature Retrospective: Habitat by Joe Martin at Eurogamer Three Words I Said to the Man I Defeated in Gears of War That I’ll Never Say Again by Patricia Hernandez at Kotaku The Rise and…
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  • For Women Like You by Patricia Hernandez at Bit Creature
  • Retrospective: Habitat by Joe Martin at Eurogamer
  • Three Words I Said to the Man I Defeated in Gears of War That I’ll Never Say Again by Patricia Hernandez at Kotaku
  • The Rise and Collapse of Yoshinori Ono by Simon Parkin at Eurogamer
  • The Mass Effect Is Not What You Thought by Ryan Kuo at Killscreen
  • Have We Simply OutGrown the MMORPG? by Leif Johnson at Gamespy
  • What the Mass effect 3 Endings Mean To Me … by Robert Ottone at Chud
  • Ludum Dare #23 – The Report by Sebastian at SuperLevel.de
  • Alone Together in Journey by Brendan Keogh at Unwinnable
  • How Realistic is Videogame Swordfighting? by Rick Lane at IGN

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    ]]>     http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-79-borg-special/feed/ 0     The Last of the Longlist: 6/10 http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-69/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-69/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:45:59 +0000 Dan Griliopoulos http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=162 Press X to Not Die by Mary Hamilton at Killscreen Game Changer by Katherine Cross at Bitch Media A Future of Polygonal Friends: AI & Emotional Attachment (Part 1) by Nathan Blades at Specs N’ Headphones Spec Ops: The Line – This Changes…
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  • Press X to Not Die by Mary Hamilton at Killscreen
  • Game Changer by Katherine Cross at Bitch Media
  • A Future of Polygonal Friends: AI & Emotional Attachment (Part 1) by Nathan Blades at Specs N’ Headphones
  • Spec Ops: The Line – This Changes Everything by Grant Howitt at The Escapist
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Moral: An Exploration of Ethical Questions in the Gaming World by Stephen Beirne at PopMatters
  • Death and Gaming by Stu Horvath at Unwinnable
  • Dad, I Sacrificed The Babysitter by Chris Dahlen at Unwinnable
  • In The Name of the Father: Metal Gear Solid by Sean McGeady at Pixels Or Death
  • Rolling with the punches: An indie dev’s struggle to be the best at Beefjack (database down)
  • A Psychedelic Abyss of Disappointment – Dyad Reviewed by Scott Nichols at Unwinnable

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    ]]>     http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-69/feed/ 0     The Last of the Longlist: 5/10 http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-59/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-59/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:35:22 +0000 Dan Griliopoulos http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=164 Death and Gaming by Stu Horvath at Unwinnable The Men Who Stare at Mountains by Rick Lane at The Escapist Pursuing my true self by Mattie Brice at Nightmare Mode notgames: notagoodidea by Rainer Sigl at Video Game Tourism Goodbye Liberty City by Dan Apczynski…
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  • Death and Gaming by Stu Horvath at Unwinnable
  • The Men Who Stare at Mountains by Rick Lane at The Escapist
  • Pursuing my true self by Mattie Brice at Nightmare Mode
  • notgames: notagoodidea by Rainer Sigl at Video Game Tourism
  • Goodbye Liberty City by Dan Apczynski at Unwinnable
  • Running On Empty by John Teti at Gameological
  • Higher calling: The new gospel of Christian games by Patrick Stafford at Polygon
  • I was a Teenage Sexist by Jenn Frank at Unwinnable
  • How Journey’s composer ended up working on Leisure Suit Larry by Jeffrey Grubb at VentureBeat
  • In defense of short games by Steve Hansen at Awesome Out Of 10

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    ]]>     http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-59/feed/ 0     The Last of the Longlist: 4/10 http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-49/ http://gamesjournalismprize.com/the-last-of-the-longlist-49/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:30:48 +0000 Dan Griliopoulos http://gamesjournalismprize.com/?p=166 The judges are reading through the final longlist right now. Over 130 longlist entries is proving a struggle though… One woman’s battle against the anxious masculinity of the fighting-games scene by Maddy Myers at The Phoenix Allow Natural Death by Jenn Frank…
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    1. One woman’s battle against the anxious masculinity of the fighting-games scene by Maddy Myers at The Phoenix
    2. Allow Natural Death by Jenn Frank at Unwinnable
    3. Triggers by John Peter Grant at Unwinnable
    4. The Long Way Is The Short Way: The 30 Year Legacy Of The Gamesmen by Mark Serrels at Kotaku
    5. The Imagination Engine: Why Next-Gen Videogames Will Rock Your World by Stu Horvath at Wired
    6. I Shouldn’t Have Gone Back by Cara Ellison in PC Gamer UK issue 246 (print)
    7. Reader, I Dated a Gamer: Discussions on Love, Sex, and Games by Cara Ellison at Gameranx
    8. The Gaming Pulse: Dissecting Dishonored’s Heart by Paul Walker at RockPaperShotgun
    9. I’m Sick of the Disturbingly Neat Lives Video Games Expect Us To Enjoy by Patricia Hernandez
    10. Playing the Cartel War by Robert Rath at The Escapist

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