GremSpot's 5-mins of fame in TODAY

Hmm... I didn't expect my post commenting on Digital Life's review of the EA's fighting game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects would generate so much comments. What surprised and amused me even more, was that the post was referenced in an opinion piece on the free daily TODAY. The article is written by blogger Mr Miyagi and you can read the full text in the link below. I've only quoted the parts that refered to my post.

"Gremlin" (gremspot.blogspot.com) had his doubts about one newspaper's glowing review of a particular computer game, as most other publications had given it only a "fair rating".

"Maybe because the game was provided for review, there's sense to want to please the company.

"Otherwise, it's that the reviewer does not have enough experience with bad games to give an honest review," he speculated.

The great thing about this is that on Tomorrow.sg's comments section, Christopher Huang, the writer who reviewed that game, had a fair go at justifying his review.

"All I have to say is that reviews are subjective in nature and one man's meat may be another man's poison," he wrote — though his comment was sandwiched between 17 others slamming the accuracy of game reviews.

Well, I've seen my name in print a number of times when I was working as a writer, now, it's my blog's five minutes of fame. Amusing...