Journal

My Xbox has been MIA lately, and my ambitions in WoW have feigned a bit over the last few weeks, so I turned to another platform for my gaming fix: my iPhone. Alas, I don’t have any noteworthy games, other than Frenzic (mostly because of my addiction to the desktop edition). So, I turned to my favorite game sites for help.

If these sites had content related to iPhone games, it was minimal and limited at best. “There has to be a specialty portal for iPhone games,” I thought. Googling ‘iPhone game review’ does yield several dozen sites that attempt to collect analysis of portable games. Unfortunately, most were terribly organized Wordpress blogs, link bait, or spam-blogs. Some were almost notable, but all of them lacked real critical/thoughtful/complete reviews, not to mention their information organization was unbearable.

I will concede that IGN is a viable publisher in this space and does have a wireless section, but their network is too large to really focus on this sort of niche. Also of note is the fact that many of the major reviewers I’d like to see creating content about the iPhone are struggling in the current state of the economy and simply don’t have the resources to create or staff new sections for their site.

So my challenge to the major publishers and journalists in the game industry is to pick up the ball and see that the iPhone (and iPod Touch) will be an important player in gaming. This portion of the industry needs to be moderated by real journalists and real critics (not to discourage the opinions of independent publishers, but your ideas are just that, opinions). Game developers take the iPhone seriously, you should, too.

*Please leave a comment if I have overlooked a site or outlet that meets my “challenge”. I’m really aching for some quality content.