How well would you be able to rate Fallout 1 after 30 mins? After all it is at its heart a roll-playing game and you generally need a couple of hours just to break into it!

And Cavalli has established a real reputation as little Ms Contrary. He would belly-ache endlessly during his time at Destructoid and his transition to Wired seems to have not dented his lack of detached judgement.

Ho hum.

There's no denying that there are plenty of good critics of games out there, but there just isn't a full blown culture where it can thrive.

The escapist is perhaps the closest we have at the moment, but the biggest draw on that are zero punctuation's scatological youtube reviews. Great fun, but not really the higher criticism being discussed here.