Molehill Mountain Episode 80 – Kunkel Awards, Year 3

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The SPJ’s Kunkel Awards, celebrating excellence in video game journalism, is back for its third year. New director of the awards, Brittany Ferrendi, joins us to discuss the Kunkels and extol the splendiferousness of The Witcher 3.

Check out the awards here: https://www.spj.org/kunkel.asp

  • 2:06 – Brittany’s favorite game of 2017
  • 6:24 – Andrew’s favorite game of 2017
  • 10:20 – EZK’s favorite game of 2017
  • 19:22 – We discuss the Kunkel Awards

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes.

Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

5:46 PME. Zachary KnightHello Everyone

5:58 PM13Ucubei think the jury is still out on that rig

5:59 PMmatthew wilsonare tripods that much, why not get a new one?

5:59 PMDejaVoodeuxHELLO FRIENDS! MASSIVE LEGEND HERE!

5:59 PMDejaVoodeuxAndrew how is that new bathmat treating you?

6:00 PMTheRiverAnduinAnyone buy games on steam during their winter sale?

6:01 PMTheRiverAnduinI got far cry and some visual novels

6:02 PM13Ucubeim thought you were giving the wrong answer

6:03 PMBrad GlasgowHi kids!

6:03 PM13Ucubesounded like the family feud buzzer

6:05 PMScottyJayManHi guys

6:07 PMmatthew wilsonthe witcher author is jealous of how popular the games got

6:07 PMmatthew wilsonthat was his fault

6:09 PMTheRiverAnduinAmazon just acquired the rights for the LOTR from the Tolkien estate to do a LOTR tv show.

6:09 PMmatthew wilsonstill say you need to play neir andrew it was on sale over xmess

6:11 PMTrilinkhey alll

6:11 PM13Ucubedid we get a release date for dq on switch yet

6:12 PMTheRiverAnduinI like the Atelier series on the ps3 light hearted story fun characters etc.

6:14 PMAndrew EisenDQ 12? Nope. I don’t think we got a NA release for DQ Heroes 1&2 either.

6:16 PMTheRiverAnduinHey guys and lady I got to go have a good night 🙂

6:16 PMAndrew EisenTake care, River!

6:20 PMmatthew wilsonwell 2017 was the year of the loot box

6:20 PMMr.JWithout a doubt.

6:32 PMTrilinksorry if i missed this, but what are the Kunkels?

6:32 PMTrilink*Awards

6:33 PMAndrew EisenThey recognize excellence in gaming jounalism.

6:34 PMAndrew Eisen*journalism

6:35 PMTrilinkoh right cool, have you guys discussed the criteria in which a piece of journalism is judged on

6:38 PMAndrew Eisenhttps://www.spj.org/kunkel.asp

6:40 PMTrilinkoh cool, thanks

6:41 PMTrilinkis that the URL? i get a 404 error :/

6:42 PMAndrew EisenIt should. Search “kunkel awards” and you should find it.

6:43 PME. Zachary KnightThere are some extrenuous characters at the end of that url for some reason. CLear out everything after the .asp

6:44 PMTrilinkMy perception of Gaming Journalism is that the bar/quality of writing is lesser in Gaming Journalism of other journalism counterparts, such as politics or sports

6:45 PMTrilinkgot it thanks Zachary

6:49 PMAndreas Protopapashey everyone

6:51 PMTrilinkBrittany, you mentioned the judging process earlier. Do you remove the names of submissions before giving them to judges in order to remove any implicit biases that they may hold?

6:51 PMTrilinkif not, would this be something you might implement in the future?

6:52 PMTrilinkyeah Zacharys got it

6:54 PMAndreas Protopapasapologies if this was asked/answered earlier, but in some categories of previous years (eg. 2016) awards there are no second or third place awards given. why?

6:56 PMAndreas Protopapasthanks

7:02 PMTheGypsyBrigadewhat is SPJ?

7:03 PMAndreas Protopapasmight be too late for this year’s awards, but is there a way someone can become a judge for next year’s?

7:03 PMTrilinkAndrew a qwuick question for you, wil lthere be a sequel to your “Andrew Eats an Orange” video?

7:05 PMTrilinkAndrew Eats a Kiwi

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