Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Colin Campbell's Rock Band 4 preview over at Polygon? I think it's fine to be negative about a game but he seems to have been the absolute worse choice to cover it and half of the article is him saying as much.

The game was shown as part of a week-long tour of events from multiple publishers, so people flying the “they should have sent someone else” flag are… well, they’re missing that key piece of context, I guess. That doesn’t change the preview, I suppose, but I dunno. I liked it. We were shown a game and told not to write about anything while IGN already had the exclusive on the vast majority of what we saw. There wasn’t really anything to write. If anything I’d maybe fault the “there is an embargo, so we must generate coverage” approach that some news-focused sites seem to take. They probably could’ve let this one slide.

For what it’s worth, I like Colin and, having met him and reading that piece in his voice, I enjoyed it quite a bit. There’s nothing wrong with writing something a little different from the norm. People make it sound like they just want a bulleted list of facts or something. Those people should probably go subscribe to Business Wire and read press releases all day.