snownyte,
@snownyte@kbin.social avatar

Disgusting...

Fuck you for ruining Humble Bundle, IGN, you fucks.

Rai,

TAKING BETS FOR LAYOFFS!

slaacaa, (edited )

Finally, if someone asked me what the game journalism industry needs, it’s definitely more consolidation.

Tap for spoiler/s

glimse,

At least a couple of those sites are mostly bot-written advertisements. RockPaperShotgun being the biggest offender…a shame because it has the best name

Mbourgon,

Huh? When did it go to crap? I read it for at least several years regularly. Kieran etc

wahming,

Yeah I used to enjoy them. But they’ve been really shit recently

jeeva,

When the founders all left, and/or Eurogamer acquired it (related) and started pushing the same videos/rubbish guides designed for SEO optimization rather than interesting articles written with passion.

Blizzard,

Even PushSquare is owned? Isn’t there no one independent…?

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Only Youtuber at this point. Amd not even them for the most part.

Blizzard,

I’m allergic to Youtube.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Or Twitch or Patreon or Floatplane or Nebula or TikTok or download the videos with yt-dlp or whatever.
There are enough creators and platforms out there to access the information in some way

mindbleach,

And half of them are slaves to the algorithm.

vulgarcynic,
@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nextlander is still going strong and independent. GiantBomb is in a good spot again as well. They have corpo-overlords but are still producing good content.

Norgur,
@Norgur@fedia.io avatar

Every time I start to think that video game journalism cannot possibly become more biased towards triple A publishers they prove me wrong right away.

RightHandOfIkaros,

This should be illegal. IGN buys up practically everyone except Kotaku so they technically don’t own a monopoly over the gaming media sector?

EDIT: Hang on, wait a minute. Humble is a games publisher. IGN is a games reviewer. Isn’t that conflict of interest?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

It is, and it’s old news. They’ve owned Humble for a while now.

goferking0,

Aren’t they the ones that made it so you have to give at least 30% to humble no matter how you do the distribution

ampersandrew, (edited )
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

That came after the purchase, yes. They’re also far less likely to have DRM-free versions of games these days. It destroyed a lot of my reason for shopping there.

MysticKetchup,

Aside from the fact that this is IGN, this amount of consolidation is really bad for the industry

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

Does this mean digital foundry will turn to shit?

misk,
@misk@sopuli.xyz avatar

DF is 50% owned by Gamer Network according to their statements. So who knows 🤷‍♂️

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

Them and Tech Jesus are my last vestiges of good YouTube content for gaming content on the more technical side.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

If Digital Foundry is ruined tomorrow, they’ll have a fully funded Patreon by Saturday.

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

I’d be willing to give money to that too!

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You mean they’ll be doing a 404media?

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