Critical Path
How to Review Videogames for a Living
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4.5 • 22 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
It’s your dream job: Playing video games. Writing about them. Getting paid. It will never happen, right?
Actually, it can. It’s definitely not easy to get this dream job—it requires a lot of perseverance, plenty of patience, a certain amount of skill, and a fair amount of luck. But with the right combination of elements, this job can be yours.
Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living will tell you what you need to know and what you need to do to make a run at this career, for real. This includes how to write compelling reviews, how to pitch yourself as a writer, how to tackle some tricky ethical quandaries, and yes, even how to get free games. Based on Dan Amrich’s own experience as a game journalist for more than 15 years, it’s advice that can serve you for your entire career, from press start to game over.
So, the next step is yours. Get Critical Path, and press start.
Customer Reviews
Invaluable tool for aspiring freelancers
"Critical Path" takes a majority of the guess work away if you're trying to figure out where to start off in games journalism. If followed, any serious writer could gather a better understanding of what it takes to be taken seriously in the competitive world of writing about video games. If you have a desire to do this for a living or simply want to understand what the business is like, I'd be hard pressed not to recommend this vital book.
Great author and book!
I couldn't have asked any more from Dan Amrich! As a beginning freelancer I loved it! Really respect Dan as a writer, editor, podcaster and as a "Major Nelson". Don't hesitate clicking the buy button on this one! Thanks Dan!
RBF Critical Path title hijacked
How dare this author hijack the title of quite possibly one the humankind's most important works? Playing video games is the exact opposite of what needs to be done at this point in history. This title is just one more example of how we are racing towards Idocracy. "I'm bating"