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[drupal=245]Splash Damage lurking within Jim Rossignol’s This Gaming Life[/drupal]
We don’t often hoot and holler about books about games, mainly because they don’t crop up with any great frequency and few of them are very good when they do. They seem doomed to only spring from the pen of writers who don’t understand games, or gamers who can’t write. So we’re happy to tip our hat to Jim Rossignol’s This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities
, which is very good.
We’ve known the wretched beast talented journalist that is the Rossignol for a while, from his scribblings for RockPaperShotgun, Wired and PC Gamer, but also from wayyyy back in the day when he and some of our number were heavily implicated in Quake III Arena clans and leagues, which didn’t seem to do any of us any harm. Who among us indeed would not warm to TGL’s opening paragraph: “In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game…It was the best thing that ever happened to me.”