Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet

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• commander@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Says bought by parent company of thegamer and gamerant. I associate those with click/rage bait

  It’s the cycle most gaming publications go through. I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

  Become games media big and then become more and more a game guide completionist blogspam website and milking a single interview into like 30 articles. Then terminate out as an AI generated articles Google SEO advertising revenue farm putting out articles like, “Has Persona 6 been Announced Yet?” that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

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  • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Forgot the top 5/6/10/25 things you didn’t know about game XYZ pulled directly from some YouTube video. Also applies to Tech news websites.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Quite often they openly refer to Xitter posts as a source for simple game mechanics when the game has literally come out already. They don‘t even play the games they report on anymore.

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  • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Genuinely, is there a good outlet that’s easily available in text that is not like that? Preferably with proper full-body RSS.

    Difficult to read about my beloved hobby in this hyper-monetized culture.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

    IGN, the EA of games “journalism”.

    that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

    That we’ll later summarize with another LLM.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their customer base.

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• pulido@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why exactly do these companies exist in the first place?

  Can’t anyone make their own reviews and publish them to the internet?

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alright. Let’s see you get started. Come along now, chop chop we need reviews for the top 5 games that came out this week

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