Box Art Reviews: Sherlock Holmes’ Mysterious Booger, More

From the Wired.com article: Box Art Reviews: Sherlock Holmes’ Mysterious Booger, More

There is a large, tech-centric publication known as Wired. Wired Magazine has been around since 1993 and, until fairly recently, has been known and trusted as an (if not the) authority on all things tech. I have been following Wired for a few years now and in that time have become very skeptical of their writing, research, and scope.

For example, this recent 'article' on video game box art. Granted, video games may be included in the realm or 'wired' or tech, and so by extension I can understand reviewing box art. But the amount of research seems lacking. It appears as if the author, Tracey John, simply spent the weekend buying video games on Amazon, came across some funny looking boxes and so wrote an article.

I do understand that this is a blog post on a blog hosted by Wired (and not a true Wired article) but it had top listing on Wired.com's main page. I try to use Wired.com as a portal to get my daily tech news (after all, the title of their home page is 'Wired News'), so for this 'article'/blog post to show up and waste 10 minutes of my time (not to mention a subsequent 20 minutes to write this post) is just poor form.

Something that could have made this article truly wired:

Innovative tech process used to design box (maybe seamless aluminum box or computer designed oragami in the shape of the main character --- I would buy a game with Hercule Poirot shaped packaging --- well, maybe not.)



Original Article

Original Poirot image