PixlBit

Tomorrow is the big announcement from Microsoft regarding their next generation console. I expect this to be very similar to the Sony press conference from February, where they will unveil some facts but keep some other stuff under wraps until E3. Regardless, I expect this PC to feature much of the same propaganda that people such as Aaron Greenberg and Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb have been using for the last 8 years. I don't happen to know who will be on stage tomorrow but I expect the pro-Microsoft video game media and their so-called "journalists" (who are really nothing but weak-minded, greedy hardcore gamers who got in good with somebody) to eat up these announcements like the people Joseph Goebbels brought in for his Sportpalast Speech in 1943.

Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister for the National Socialist German Worker's Party, was a master at twisting situations to get people to believe that everything was going well for the Germans in WWII. He used his vast powers to push his agendas and beliefs on their people.

Microsoft, in cahoots with today's joke for video game journalism, is all set to deliver a performance that regardless of content, will be praised simply because they have paid off these supposedly unbiased game journos to tell the teens, tweens and basement dwellers to announce that Microsoft has done it again. Who cares if the console is always-online or has a goofy name? Microsoft has never done the consumer wrong because the authority and final word, these "video game journalists" have said it's all good.

It saddens me that many people my age outside of a site like Atari Age have forgotten about those great video game magazines where professionally written articles by men and women who had degrees in journalism, ethics and a love of video games were the norm. They gave video gaming the respect,. honor and dignity it deserved. Today, well, go read IGN, Gamespot or any other major site and tell me if it compares.

Maybe these older people are trying to look hip and feel younger next to their brethren but more and more people need to find scans of these classic magazines and then question why our hobby is poorly represented by these poseurs. More video gamers are 30+ than 30-. Why do we have grown adult journalists acting like horny teenagers and comments written by many people who failed English class?

Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.

No reason to give my comments about the actual PC since they aren't going to matter to anyone. I'm not a video game journalist and people are afraid of criticism in 2013. I'm going to go into it tomorrow afternoon with a mindset that it's another staged spectacle. Microsoft is very familiar with that.

Other than that, I've never seen a May-September run with a deep line-up of games. With Grid 2, Remember Me, Fuse, The Last Of Us, Tales Of Xillia, Dragon's Crown, Killer Is Dead, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Saints Row IV, that Metal Gear Solid PS3 collection and topped off with GTA V, it's going to be hard to keep your PS3, Xbox 360 or PC off for the summer. It's almost criminal.