The latest episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast—as always hosted by the site’s senior editor Mike Diver (who is me, hello)—welcomes Laura Kate Dale of Let’s Play Video Games and several freelance gigs and Julian Benson of Kotaku UK to go over what it takes to break news in the gaming industry, when publishers and PRs are doing whatever they can to keep information under wraps.
Is reporting on new console—the Nintendo Switch, for example—and software leaks a legitimate public service, or does it comprise a kind of spoiler for gaming fans who like to be surprised at high-profile system launches? What boundaries do gaming journalists forever fear crossing—and which do they stride across without concern for “blacklisting” or any other professional relationship fallout? What happens when a developer shows you something off the record, but it’s just too good to keep quiet about? When is breaking an NDA okay? What do you do when you have a console in your house, boxed, but...","author_name":"VICE"}