Says bought by parent company of thegamer and gamerant. I associate those with click/rage bait
It’s the cycle most gaming publications go through. I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website
Become games media big and then become more and more a game guide completionist blogspam website and milking a single interview into like 30 articles. Then terminate out as an AI generated articles Google SEO advertising revenue farm putting out articles like, “Has Persona 6 been Announced Yet?” that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing
Genuinely, is there a good outlet that’s easily available in text that is not like that? Preferably with proper full-body RSS.
Difficult to read about my beloved hobby in this hyper-monetized culture.
Forgot the top 5/6/10/25 things you didn’t know about game XYZ pulled directly from some YouTube video. Also applies to Tech news websites.
Quite often they openly refer to Xitter posts as a source for simple game mechanics when the game has come out already. They don‘t even play the games they report on anymore.
I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website
IGN, the EA of games “journalism”.
that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing
That we’ll later summarize with another LLM.
Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their name and customer base.
It rarely works out, but it’d be great if some of the fired staff tried going independent. A couple of my favorite groups managed it after they were fired in similar circumstances.
Second Wind comes to mind.
Why exactly do these companies exist in the first place?
Can’t anyone make their own reviews and publish them to the internet?
Alright. Let’s see you get started. Come along now, chop chop we need reviews for the top 5 games that came out this week
