Comment on Game Informer shuts down after 33 years
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months agoIndeed. Its sad to see a reputable name go before something far less reputable, like Kotaku for example.
I guess it must be true, hate clicks and outrage do generate more revenue than real, genuine gaming articles written with pretty good journalistic integrity.
a reputable name
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they were wholly owned by gamestop. their magazine was a lever to drive gamestop subscriptions and upsells. y’all worried about kotaku crack me up, if there were real ethics in game journalism a supposedly independent publication reviewing the products wouldn’t be owned by the largest vendor of the products.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
eh, kotaku has some solid articles and reporting as well. gaming journalism in general is incestuous shit but most of the anti-kotaku sentiment comes from goonergate shit
Ashtear@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The hilarious thing about you getting downvotes immediately is Kotaku led the reporting on this news this morning. Link is in the posted article, y’all.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Of course Kotaku is going to report on it. They want in on the outrage of companies firing employees that has been happening lately.
They were throwing temper tantrums over the owner of Kotaku telling them that they needed to write more gaming guides/articles instead of the pop culture outrage garbage they had been spewing that tarnished their reputation. Imagine workking for a gaming media outlet, and then getting mad when the owner tells you that you need to focus on gaming articles.
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So these attacks are gamergate garbage, thanks.
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Nah, Kotaku had a shit reputation for years before gamergate got shat into existence. Their reporting was sloppy and often wrong, most of them sucked at the games they were reviewing, they spammed out vapid clickbait articles about nothing to farm ad rev. The only reason people respect them now is because they were positioned opposite gamergate, as if two things can’t both suck.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
no. literally no one gave a shit about kotaku before goonergate.
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
You’re joking, right? Pre-2012, it was one of the most visited sites on the internet and in the top 20 gaming sites. They weren’t some no-name blog. Then after they hired Totilo, their shitty pop-tabloid reporting became so infamous even Forbes had articles about it, well before gamergate was ever a thing. This all used to be sourced info on the wiki page.