GhostStorm Writes: It was with much sadness that GhostStorm read on Friday on Teletext, of the demise of one of the last great champions of quality gaming, GameCentral. This teletext, and recently web-based, news and features service started out in March 2003, taking over from the excellent and hilarious Digitiser, written by Mr Biffo, and with such big boots to fill, the two main writers of David Jenkins and Roger Hargreaves have thrived, and created a service second to none from magazine to website. Only recently their reviews have appeared on Metacritic, which shows how well regarded they are in the gaming community. Their writing is consistently excellent, with balanced and informative articles championing quality games, that many gamers would probably never take a second glance at otherwise, over the overhyped big budget blockbusters.
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Reviews from Gamecentral are laughable, glad to see them go!
Best gaming reviews around, unbiased & disregard all hype. Sad to see them go
yeah they will be miss, sorry to see them go
GameCentral were the only magazine I could trust 100%. If you don't like GC, you don't like honest, funny, superbly written reviews and feaures. They let readers have a huge input too. Go to www.teletext.co.uk/gamecentral to see what we're losing.
Seems like I've gotten to the age where a lot of my childhood is dying off.
Digitiser and GC were a regular stop for gaming news when I was younger and didn't have all the websites and content available today. Even recently I would still make a point of looking up their teletext page to see what was going on, such was the quality of the writing.
I remember getting an article published as a weekend feature about 3 years ago. Was one of my first published works!