The SPJ’s Kunkel Awards, celebrating excellence in video game journalism, is back for its third year. New director of the awards, Brittany Ferrendi, joins us to discuss the Kunkels and extol the splendiferousness of The Witcher 3.
Check out the awards here: https://www.spj.org/kunkel.asp
2:06 – Brittany’s favorite game of 2017
7:14 – Andrew’s favorite game of 2017
11:45 – EZK’s favorite game of 2017
21:20 – We discuss the Kunkel Awards
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Chat Transcript:
5:46 PMHello Everyone
5:58 PMi think the jury is still out on that rig
5:59 PMare tripods that much, why not get a new one?
5:59 PMHELLO FRIENDS! MASSIVE LEGEND HERE!
5:59 PMAndrew how is that new bathmat treating you?
6:00 PMAnyone buy games on steam during their winter sale?
6:01 PMI got far cry and some visual novels
6:02 PMim thought you were giving the wrong answer
6:03 PMHi kids!
6:03 PMsounded like the family feud buzzer
6:05 PMHi guys
6:07 PMthe witcher author is jealous of how popular the games got
6:07 PMthat was his fault
6:09 PMAmazon just acquired the rights for the LOTR from the Tolkien estate to do a LOTR tv show.
6:09 PMstill say you need to play neir andrew it was on sale over xmess
6:11 PMhey alll
6:11 PMdid we get a release date for dq on switch yet
6:12 PMI like the Atelier series on the ps3 light hearted story fun characters etc.
6:14 PMDQ 12? Nope. I don’t think we got a NA release for DQ Heroes 1&2 either.
6:16 PMHey guys and lady I got to go have a good night 🙂
6:16 PMTake care, River!
6:20 PMwell 2017 was the year of the loot box
6:20 PMWithout a doubt.
6:32 PMsorry if i missed this, but what are the Kunkels?
6:32 PM*Awards
6:33 PMThey recognize excellence in gaming jounalism.
6:34 PM*journalism
6:35 PMoh right cool, have you guys discussed the criteria in which a piece of journalism is judged on
6:38 PMhttps://www.spj.org/kunkel.asp
6:40 PMoh cool, thanks
6:41 PMis that the URL? i get a 404 error :/
6:42 PMIt should. Search “kunkel awards” and you should find it.
6:43 PMThere are some extrenuous characters at the end of that url for some reason. CLear out everything after the .asp
6:44 PMMy perception of Gaming Journalism is that the bar/quality of writing is lesser in Gaming Journalism of other journalism counterparts, such as politics or sports
6:45 PMgot it thanks Zachary
6:49 PMhey everyone
6:51 PMBrittany, you mentioned the judging process earlier. Do you remove the names of submissions before giving them to judges in order to remove any implicit biases that they may hold?
6:51 PMif not, would this be something you might implement in the future?
6:52 PMyeah Zacharys got it
6:54 PMapologies if this was asked/answered earlier, but in some categories of previous years (eg. 2016) awards there are no second or third place awards given. why?
6:56 PMthanks
7:02 PMwhat is SPJ?
7:03 PMmight be too late for this year’s awards, but is there a way someone can become a judge for next year’s?
7:03 PMAndrew a qwuick question for you, wil lthere be a sequel to your “Andrew Eats an Orange” video?
7:05 PMAndrew Eats a Kiwi
