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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.