Kuwoobie wrote:
When conducting interviews and the like-- does this require catching a flight to California to meet up with the co-designer of x game for a Q&A session? How does one keep "up to date" on MMO news without simply reading it elsewhere on the internet?
It's all about networking. In this case, both literal senses. The best MMO news reporters go and get the story, but since MMO's are all online, that going and getting involves making (and keeping) contacts with the various community managers for MMO's, the developers, etc. Sometimes some of our people get to travel to events. They never let me travel anywhere, so I wouldn't know about that aspect. I'd assume at the start the more senior staff would probably get the jucier travel assignments, if any.
Telephone conferences, sitting in on game developer chats, networking through your co workers contacts in return for sharing your own, etc. We have pretty good networks in place already. A succeessful candidate might be the one who can bring aspects that we don't have to the game...