Brehs, whats up with gaming media?? Massive layoffs everywhere

[Gizmo_Duck]

No cutting edge content that separates them from regular Youtubers - who arguably do a better job by themselves with a fraction of the overhead costs.

I can’t even remember the last time a major gaming publication outside gameindustry.biz or bloomberg broke a big gaming story

 

[ALonelyDad]

Kind of feel like YouTubers are the ones putting them out of business

They are, because Youtubers will give them good reviews for perks that some of these established journalists wont

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

I can’t even remember the last time a major gaming publication outside gameindustry.biz or bloomberg broke a big gaming story

You dont even need to rely on breaking big stories. You can sell a show being an entertaining personality. This was one thing G4 got partially right.

The problem is almost all of these blogs and shows are run by complete losers who dont have any personality outside of various top 10 lists in their heads.

Not only are they boring personalities, but they all echo the same opinions on everything because theyre so scared of not getting free shyt from companies.

 

[42 Monks]

I can’t even remember the last time a major gaming publication outside gameindustry.biz or bloomberg broke a big gaming story

what would people even consider a big gaming story? continuous coverage on office misconduct at a major developer? publicly available investor bulletins? publishing stories on that doesn't even get you a press badge in any other environment.

gaming journalists have gotten away with not even clearly defining what pre-production is...

these motherfukkers can't even get interviews from people who just quit they have no network, no experience in the industry they cover, and no insight worth sticking around for. its fukk tencent all day but they got this right

They are, because Youtubers will give them good reviews for perks that some of these established journalists wont

these journalists are still scared to talk about madden of all games one of kotaku's biggest articles last month was based on steam reviews for a game that was already getting blacklisted. they are worthless

the biggest name in gaming news, jason schreier, only shows up when a company is about go ass up. the best in the business is a glorified ambulance chaser but thinks he's peter jennings

 

[Diunx]

We got youtubers now, everytime there's a big event I just watch one of those compilation videos with all the trailers, if I'm interested in a game I watch a before you buy video instead of reading a long ass preview.

 

[ALonelyDad]

what would people even consider a big gaming story? continuous coverage on office misconduct at a major developer? publicly available investor bulletins? publishing stories on that doesn't even get you a press badge in any other environment.

gaming journalists have gotten away with not even clearly defining what pre-production is...

these motherfukkers can't even get interviews from people who just quit they have no network, no experience in the industry they cover, and no insight worth sticking around for. its fukk tencent all day but they got this right

these journalists are still scared to talk about madden of all games one of kotaku's biggest articles last month was based on steam reviews for a game that was already getting blacklisted. they are worthless

the biggest name in gaming news, jason schreier, only shows up when a company is about go ass up. the best in the business is a glorified ambulance chaser but thinks he's peter jennings

I agree, a lot of the journalists are just as bad as Youtubers. I know a guy from Forbes that would never talk bad about 2K because they fly him out every event

 

[NZA]

the whole tech industry is doing layoffs. cheap money is gone and real valuations are going to be coming soon. they have to get ahead of it and run a lean ship again.