New Games Journalism & Old Games Journalism

When reviewing or reporting about games, journalists can use New Games Journalism (NGJ), Old Games Journalism (OGJ) or usually a combination of both. Old Games Journalism will often focus on a specific aspect of the game and will provide you with an analysis of that aspect. This will provide you with much more technical information about a game, which I often find, isn’t enough to allow me to make a decision on whether I want to buy that game.

New Games Journalism are not what you would normally expect from a review of a game. This is because these articles often include the author’s response to their own experience of the game. The author will often play the game and experience it for themselves and then share their thoughts and feelings on what they experienced. Anecdotes will often be included in NGJ as the author shares stories of what happened although different players may experience different things in the game.

I personally prefer NGJ as it gives me a more realistic image of what it would be like to play the game and allows me to decide much more easily whether it is something I would enjoy. However, I feel like there should be some OGJ involved in all reviews as it is important to know how well often regarding the controls, graphics and options as if a game is very weak in one of those regards I often find it can spoil the whole game.