Column: The Game Anthropologist: ‘A Community That Writes About Games’

[The Game Anthropologist chronicles Michael Walbridge’s ventures into gaming communities as he reports on their inhabitants and culture. This column is a summary of Michael’s interviews with six prominent and prolific game writers and one professor who all have one thing in common: they spend a lot of time blogging, too.]
A Changing Industry
It’s no secret that game journalism and writing about games is dramatically changing, but what’s not so simple is describing or naming those changes. Even more difficult is determining whether personal, alternative writing spaces can be considered communities, and how they function.
Chris Dahlen’s Save the Robot and Leigh Alexander’s now retired The Aberrant Gamer are two of my favorite GameSetWatch columns. I have since followed these writers to their blogs, Save the Robot and Sexy Videogameland. I noted that in the blog chain they are a part of, sites such as Dubious Quality and Giant Bomb […]

Original Post By Google News editors@gamesetwatch.com (Mike Walbridge)