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"This"
Just say the name, Kotaku.
One of my least favorite trends in game journalism. Every single article title avoids saying what game it's covering now.
It's all web-based journalism unfortunately. I just don't click on them anymore and start avoiding the sites that do it...hopefully more and more people do the same so the trend can die
So did you: The Day Before
I didn't want to click the article. Then I realized the ironic hypocrisy and deleted my comment, lol.
Guess it federated before I got to it.
The dumbest part is that the name of the game is literally in the fucking URL lmao
They probably had it in the title originally and then some marketing manager was like "NO, IT HAS TO BE CLICKBAIT FOR ANYONE TO READ IT"
I've worked with marketing and I do blame them, even if it's indirectly.