"Steam lets the internet tag games, with predictable consequences"

As bad as "the game industry" generally is, which I've ranted about so much in the past, things like this are why the great unwashed should not be allowed anything remotely resembling control over stuff like that, even if it's something as seemingly innocuous as adding tags to stuff. Given that this is a beta thing, Valve, I would count this as a "lesson learned" and remove the user tags feature, if I were you, or at least highly limit or moderate it in some way. Let the assholes have their "lulz" during the beta, but don't let this asininity roll out to the real thing... oh wait, the useless, idiotic tags already are showing up on the real, non-beta thing. Oops.

"Ten Video Game Trends That Need To Go Away"

Link to list.

I certainly don't agree with all of the points made there, but I don't disagree with all of them either. I'll just say that I agree with more of the stuff toward the beginning of the list than the stuff toward the end of it. I'll present the list as is, without going into the specifics of which ones I do or do not agree with (though I may come back to this later when I have more time and do just that).

"'Candy Swipe' Dev Pens Furious Open Letter To 'Candy Crush' Makers"

To continue the theme from recent posts about why I hate Facebook/mobile games so much, here is this.

Is King essentially just the new holder of the crown that was previously held by the much reviled Zynga? It certainly looks that way.