Mar 17, 2006 2:43 AM

Long, Long Interview with Bill Kunkel

Blogcritics just did a new interview with Bill Kunkel, whose tell-all game industry memoirs Confessions of the Game Doctor are available in book form. It’s more of an interesting lighthearted conversation on the state of the industry with one of the founding fathers of game journalism. Lots of unvarnished, tell-it-like-it-is opinion. Mostly I’m linking it […]

Blogcritics just did a new interview with Bill Kunkel, whose tell-all game industry memoirs Confessions of the Game Doctor are available in book form. It's more of an interesting lighthearted conversation on the state of the industry with one of the founding fathers of game journalism. Lots of unvarnished, tell-it-like-it-is opinion. Mostly I'm linking it because of this exchange:

RF: ...are there any hot game journalists out there? If so who are they?
BK: Oh there are. I mentioned Chris Kohler...

Damn straight.

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