Gaming - Game review writing contest!

Hello fellow Steemians!

I have been thinking a great deal recently about Steem as a potential platform for revolutionising games journalism.
The current state of the video game journalistic world has more than a few issues as anyone that reads reviews from larger outlets like IGN can tell quickly.

blatant bribes from publishers to buy higher review scores are an industry standard at this point and have resulted in basically every AAA game release getting at least an 8/10 no matter how bad it is.
Kotaku writers reviewing games they have no interest whatsoever in making no effort to even pretend like they care and still raking in the big bucks.
these problems and others have combined to create an atmosphere which many gamers actively try to avoid at this point, instead going out of their way to find indie reviews or friend recommendations which is all well and good but neither the small scale indie reviewers or your mates are getting paid for providing that information to you.

Steem can change this, on this platform anyone with a passion for gaming, writing or even better both, can write reviews about games they are interested in with no editor breathing down their necks or publisher forcing them to give high review scores. And the best part is you can be paid for it you can build a following just as if you were taking the more mainstream journalistic path. You get all the benefits of being a games journalist (being paid to sit around playing computer games) with none of the downsides of being a soulless sellout.

So! whats the point in writing this? I want to encourage people to try their hand at writing a game review so here's the plan, write a game review blog post and the drop a comment here with URL to it and on Saturday I will go through them all pick my favourites and dish out some SBD and upvotes.

The rewards will be as follows

1st: 3 SBD
2nd: 2 SBD
3rd: 1 SBD

and up votes for all!

if this takes off at all I don't see why we cant do it again and with higher rewards but just for testing the waters hopefully this will be enough to motivate people to have some fun with writing and maybe kick off their careers as professional video game players!

Thanks for reading

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