Want to write for Edge? Here’s your chance

Bias against the PS3? Have a professed endearment for Halo? Do you love the number 7? If so, then we’ve got the perfect job for you!

Here’s your chance O’Coward for the garbage you type to be seen by two more people.

“Bias against the PS3?”

So biased they gave LittleBigPlanet a 10 out of 10…

*applies*

If it wasn’t for my paralyzing fear of flying, I’d probably apply.

Go by bus then?

Hey Pat shall i apply for this even though i dont have any experience as a journalist. What do they look for mainly?

Experience.

Dam it lol. Only way you can get experience is if some company gives you a break and no one will give me a break because i dont have experience. Talk about a shit situation

The Hindle: be like Michael O’Connor and write your own magazine. on the internet.

“The Hindle: be like Michael O’Connor and write your own magazine. on the internet.”

Which not only makes me money, but has also netted me numerous degrees of employment with professional gaming magazines and websites over the years.

You, my dear child, are an idiot.

He’s an idiot? Did you not just explain why his sugestion was a good idea?

Someone’s sarcasm detector need a whack up side its head.

What Mike said. It wasn’t meant in a polite way.

damn Santa, we’re still on for presents, right?

Awesome. What is a competitive salary at Future when they’ve effectively bought out all the competition?!

well, they didn’t buy out Eurogamer for example.

…or Imagine Publishing. I think GamesTM outsells EDGE Magazine and has done for a while now.

Probably because they didn’t give Borderlands an insulting 6.

I cancelled my EDGE subscription a long time ago because I simply cannot respect their opinion. I can’t comprehend 95% of their scores and/or opinions. It’s like jaded bunch of assholes that are fantastic journalists.

I didn’t bother renewing my Edge subscription when it lapsed last year. It’s can’t criticise their reviews for being “wrong” as reviews are always about opinion rather than fact, it’s just I find their opinions wildly off kilter to my own. I enjoyed Halo 3 and Half Life 2, but they weren’t anywhere near 10/10 games in my opinion. They were good, but where was the innovation? I haven’t played Little Big Planet but after all the awards they gave it I suspect all that praise was because it was made by a British developer…

I think the biggest problem is that Edge’s reviews don’t manage to actually provide any real arguments or justification for a score. It’s as if the writers just expect you to accept their opinion because they write for Edge, rather than because they’ve presented a compelling reason for a game to be considered good or bad.

Despite often being labelled “unreliable”, I generally find Eurogamer very consistent and Yahtzee seems to be in sync with my own opinions too.

So far, nearly every single reply has been “The magazine sucks because I don’t agree with some of their review scores.”

Open-mindedness at its finest.

“I think the biggest problem is that Edge’s reviews don’t manage to actually provide any real arguments or justification for a score.”

Yes they do. They say *exactly* why they think the game deserves its score. Very clearly and concisely, in fact.

Michael, I don’t think EDGE sucks at all, it’s probably the best print magazine out there, but I just found myself so vehemently disagreeing with (not just) their reviews, that I felt I should put my money where my mouth is and cancel my subscription.

In hindsight, they were right on a lot of things though (Resistance 2 for example).

So basically, as I originally stated, you dumped the magazines because you don’t agree with some of their opinions.

I wasn’t aware that it was a magazine’s duty to stroke your ego.

yes, but why would I pay to read something I disagree with most the time? that’s ridiculous.