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.
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?
It is, and it’s old news. They’ve owned Humble for a while now.
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
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.
Aside from the fact that this is IGN, this amount of consolidation is really bad for the industry
Finally, if someone asked me what the game journalism industry needs, it’s definitely more consolidation.
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Does this mean digital foundry will turn to shit?
If Digital Foundry is ruined tomorrow, they’ll have a fully funded Patreon by Saturday.
I’d be willing to give money to that too!
You mean they’ll be doing a 404media?
DF is 50% owned by Gamer Network according to their statements. So who knows 🤷♂️
Them and Tech Jesus are my last vestiges of good YouTube content for gaming content on the more technical side.
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
Huh? When did it go to crap? I read it for at least several years regularly. Kieran etc
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.
Yeah I used to enjoy them. But they’ve been really shit recently
Even PushSquare is owned? Isn’t there no one independent…?
Only Youtuber at this point. Amd not even them for the most part.
I’m allergic to Youtube.
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
And half of them are slaves to the algorithm.
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.
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