i agree, Hsu is a dumbass

The guy is an arse

You would notice that Dan's final episode was loaded with Halo. Not surprising he was to xbox what Bill O'Reilly is to John McCain.

reminds me of the Gamer Zone.

because he is afraid of losing out on gifts. He thinks that if companies start to listen to Dan that he will stop receiving gifts. If you read the article that is all he is concerned about. He got into game journalism for the "promotional items" and now he is afraid he won't be receiving them. How lame!

Writing an article like this only makes him look like more of an @ss than Dan Hsu. He probably wants Hsu to reply so he can get some attention. I hope he does, journalist fight ftw!

Hsu was so obviously biased everything he said had to be taken with a grain of salt. A big "F-you, and goodbye" from me and the playstation community to you "Shoe," Peace!

Hsu was a hypocrite. Anyone who followed his work could see it, and his obvious bias. Isn't journalism supposed to be objective?

I don't think anyone really gives a crap and the author is just grasping for more attention.

This guy is just as bad. So lame.

The lovely PSP fiasco where pixels were missing right out the box. No complainers?.......Get over it!

How many times have you read a PREVIEW that was glowing? That praised a game that was coming out in a few months as being groundbreaking and revolutionary? And then that game sucked to high heaven? A lot. The gifts that are received (and I am talking about more than a nice meal for a poor journalist... Jonas Allen is a propoganda-spewing retard) are typically given prior to those previews. And how many times have you bought or pre-ordered the game not waiting for any of the reviews, because that preview was so wonderful?

I know for me, it has been far too many times. Game journalism goes far beyond reviews. A lot of hype that is generated starts with game journalists. And who better to discuss these things than someone who has taken a bite out of the forbidden apple... someone who has actually made the mistake? Dan Hsu.

So since Dan Hsu actually HAS some sort of experience in what this article is talking about, I would rather listen to him than some nobody who feels the need to take a swipe at him.

I think he's full of Hsit.

I'm not a Dan Hsu fan myself. He is far from being a good game journalist but these articles are pointless. He is best ignored. I used to be a huge EGM fan but those days are gone thanks in some part to Hsu.

Game reviewers are paid by the magazine to review games. The magazine is paid to advertise and promote the games being reviewed by the game publishers. There has always been a delicate balance between the publishers and the magazines. They need one another in order to stay in business. The problem arises when you get fans that want to be journalists that do not have the responsibility that a format such as a magazine has. A fan can crush a game with a review simply out of hate for another console. They can review a game based off the description on the back of the retail box and never even play the game. They can also simply make stuff up.

These new fan/online journalists have all but destroyed the balance that existed between publishers and reviewers. The reviews have gotten overly harsh and attack the developers on a personal level. They are also scaring customers away with biased reviews that would have bought the game. It is costing devs/publishers millions of dollars and will have an impact on the games we play. If devs can't get a return on a multi-million dollar investment, the games will get smaller and the quality will go down.

Many of you have already heard me say it, but the system is broken and we are to blame.

-Death