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The Deadlock Debacle Shows That Still Nobody Understands Games Journalism, Especially The Journalists (richardlewis.substack.com)
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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The verge has sucked since its inception

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Almost all of them have been pretty bad lately. Verge, Kotaku, ScreenRant even. I mean, Kotaku was always a joke, like even more than The Verge, but everything has only gotten worse compared to like 15 years ago.

All businesses these days (journalism or not) seem like they were inherited by one of two kinds of people:

  1. People who demand short term profit even at the expense of long term growth

  2. Activists that let their emotions make the worst business decisions imaginable

[–] spamfajitas@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily gaming related, but I remember their early coverage of every new Apple product as somehow more masturbatory than anything MacWorld put out. Then you've got their infamous complete mess of a PC build video and everything that followed that. I guess at least they aren't written by AI yet?

[–] ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The iVerge era

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The Verge was a breathe of fresh air when it first launched. The rest of tech news had enshitified pretty well at the time. But now they've been around long enough to be the establishment rather than the disruptor