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Twitter news is a stupid new phenomenon, that as far as I can remember, has practically turned gaming press into tabloid news overnight. Notch said something mean on twitter? It's somehow news. He tried to explain it, but can't well in under 100 letters? Its an update to the non-news "news". Dice said they hated their competition's trailer? *Gasp* Must be on the front page of our news site! Twitter is like the satire of Tabloid, but it forgot the humor, with people rushing to report on what internet celebrities say in under 140 characters. All they basically do now is slap the link to a tweet in, some word fluff, and then boom it's a new page that generates hits. It's lazy, stupid, and not in the slightest news, and I'm kind of sick of it. Don't get me wrong, news on twitter can happen, and that's why every professional has a twitter. Every game company and youtuber I know runs one, and they relay quick bits, or gloats through them. Sometimes interesting stuff also goes through it, like the No Man's Sky hack debacle that happened recently where... I'm not sure people still know what went on, but it was interesting and could indicate trouble at the company. That's relevant and news. Someone leaking a game detail on twitter, or putting up new screenshots, its news. Someone says they're fired or quitting? Could be a big deal. However for every one of those, we instead get a few tabloid fluff pieces. Meanwhile somewhere out there an underdog or even popular indie team is actually relaying something of relevance that goes missed. Like, this.
Yeah, absolutely nobody I know of reported that a Linux demo was now available, something niche gamers might greatly value since Linux goes a little underdeveloped for, and yet one of the biggest upcoming indie releases just proved they're porting to it and have a demo up and ready through GOG. You'd know that if someone fed you through GOG or Playtonic news, but instead you get "Someone still hates Konami!" at the top of your page. Oh and nobody I know of has reported on Kitfox's brand new upcoming game! Yeah, a whole game out there by a proven indie team is just unreported for months, and so to is their expansion to Moon Hunters. The new game is called the Shrouded Isles, there, a blogger just did more journalism for that game than the journalist sites I visit often. So can we please stop this and focus more on real news? It exists you know. Hell, go check out the Youtube channel NoClip, started up by former GameSpot employee Danny o' Dwyer, he's doing more of actual game journalism through the use of Youtube and patreon than entire teams of staff, editors, and writers for gaming press sites. He actually goes in and interviews game developers, talks about their processes, and splits up hour or so worth of video content in neat presentation with game clips and awesome professional documentary type interviews. Its fantastic. Meanwhile... what we call game journalism is just spreading twitter news and info they're fed by publishers. They do this by taking things they could simply retweet on their own damn twitters, but pass it on the news site as news. No wonder written press sites are supposedly dying to stuff like video content and grass root creators. Well to that... I'll just leave this yawning fox to explain how I feel about twitter news...
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