Games Journalism General

[Jaimas]

I smell bullshit coming from Jason Schreier.
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I can blame you, and I will, Schrier.

From you claiming you weren't contacted regarding being part of Game Journo Pros - which you were absolutely part of - only for it to come out that you had, repeatedly, to you continuing to push the Brad Wardell story as legitimate long after his accuser had been discredited and had her case thrown out with prejudice, to the scandalmongering horseshit you did about a journalist hitting on a developer days before you called a colleague of yours being caught in an affair as not news worthy.

How about when GG supporters caught a foreign-born serial-harasser Mateus Souza and exposed his ass, only for you to effectively blame GG for his existence?

How about when you lied about Trendy Entertainment and put out a lengthy hitpiece on them, with the source being one of their competitors and blamed Jeremy Stiegliz for it, leading to him being removed from his job, and when investigations were launched - and it turned out you lied - repeatedly, and your article wound up being used by Insight, Trendy's corporate parent, to fuck oiver Stiegliz?

How about when you fearmongered over a scene in Tomb Raider 2013 being like rape?

How about when you tried to moral panic over the characters in Dragon's Crown and claimed that the character design was intended to appeal to pedophiles, only for artist behind the game's character design to give you the funniest middle finger I've seen in years?



I can keep going. I won't, but I could. For pages.

You're an embodiment of why people hate your profession and will consider themselves richer for its loss.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Didn't Kotaku only really start that after they got exposed about the Zoe Quinn shit?

It's a chicken-egg thing. That side of things was always there, but King Nigger doing his shit about the same time as GG gave Kotaku and others permission to lean hard into political bullshit.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

but their articles were just on the side of retarded takes (like the article they took down where the guy was amazed that Nintendo's invention, the ocarina, was being sold on eBay).

Was that article real? I thought it was one of those fake articles people made to make fun the types of articles they ran. It's pretty hard to tell with Kotaku tho.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Nepotism. Some people think Zoe Quinn was patient zero for the rot in games journalism, but all she really did was expose how incestuous the industry is.

No kidding, by the time the Zoe Quinn thing was discovered Patricia Hernandez had been churning shit-tier DEI clickbait on Kotaku for a few years by that point (is Hernandez a troon, or just ugly?).

Didn't Kotaku only really start that after they got exposed about the Zoe Quinn shit? Even before that happened, I remember reading an ED article about Kotaku being kind of a "fuck your way to a good review" scenario, but their articles were just on the side of retarded takes (like the article they took down where the guy was amazed that Nintendo's invention, the ocarina, was being sold on eBay).

A lot of Kotaku articles in the late 2000s and early 2010s were a lot of the same gaming culture fluff that places that Reddit linked to, including things like Pikachu bento boxes, the Super Mario theme done on different floppy disk drives, vidya tattoos and art, and other stuff that were outgrowths of the G4 gaming culture (this was widespread and even done in Nintendo Power, and ultimately led to GG in the end). One of these old Kotaku articles I remember reading was some huge video game store in...Australia, I think, which had the Wii-focused "The Nintendo Experience" on the upper level (Australia's version of GameStop, EB Games, which kept the name...today TNE focuses on Switch).

 

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It's a chicken-egg thing. That side of things was always there, but King Nigger doing his shit about the same time as GG gave Kotaku and others permission to lean hard into political bullshit.

Do people not know that King Nigger literally got an "Anti-Propaganda" bill passed that literally funded lefty media throughout the US? It's why there were mass layoffs in 2018 (2019?), the funding ran out and Trump obviously wasn't going to renew it.

Your tax dollars were literally paying for Alyssa Mercunty and her friends to shit on your hobbies, culture, and beliefs for years.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

i wish alanah pearce worked at a place where she could get fired instead of living life on easy mode by mode of blonde with tits

 

[Sniggers Fresh]

How about when GG supporters caught a foreign-born serial-harasser Mateus Souza and exposed his ass, only for you to effectively blame GG for his existence?

In addition to that, member the time that the ESA had a link to a publicly available spreadsheet after E3 2019 for all of the attendees contenting legal names, phone numbers, and emails addresses on their website that wasn't supposed to be seen and how fellow kiwi and "actual non cliquey game journo" @sophnar0747 (whose a HSTS TIM btw) who was one the earliest to cover the breach? Mr. Shekelstein here was so fucking petty to discredit him breaking the story because he was a "gamergate supporter". For an industry so "precarious" it sure is convenient to undermine the very people in the said industry for holding the """"Wrong views """" just because you don't want to associate with "bad people" for some faulty moralistic purity check over a security breach. Ironic considering the free brownie points for who Narwitz is.

These retards deserve less for what is honestly one of the cushiest jobs you can get in an a entertainment field.

 

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Hell for a more recent example, didn't SmashJT break some news and then one of Mercunty's journo friends "broke" it a few days later and they all immediately went out of their way to retweet and credit her simp instead of SmashJT?

With ChatGPT it's easier than ever to replace these people. I'm frankly shocked some right leaning gamers haven't if nothing else than to fuck over people like Mr. Shekelstein and the like.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

guess who's in the comment section?
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Patrick now wants Harry to be on his podcast as a result.

 

[NerdShamer]

Here's someone mocking Fandom's role in this shitshow.

Along with an official nonanswer by the Fandom Rep.

But in more important news, someone had archived the missing podcast!

 

[Oliver Onions]

only for artist behind the game's character design to give you the funniest middle finger I've seen in years?

I'm sure you're already aware but in case anyone else isn't or just needs reminding George Kamitani isn't just the artist for Dragon's Crown and other Vannilaware games, he's the founder of the goddamn studio, its ongoing president and the director for many of their games.

This clapback was on par with Miyazaki replying to journoscum complaining about the difficult in Elden Ring by quote-tweeting them and saying 'git gud'. And of course Schreir being the crybully little bitch that he is whined about homophobia after being perfectly called out.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I smell bullshit coming from Jason Schreier.
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In this one case he's almost certainly right. Though bear in mind a lot of articles are written work for hire and thus wouldn't count. A few big news sites (Wapo, Bloomberg,) have a single guy, IGN has a maybe ten that do news and commentary along with guides but lots of part-timers and guides-only people who might not count. If you are restricting it to the US thats pretty much it, isn't it? Especially if you discount reviewers like Yahzhee and demand actual gaming news coverage.

 

[Muad'Dick]

Disappointing to hear about all of these layoffs.

There should have been hangings.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

I'm sure the usaid money drying has nothing to do with this but sure is sus

 

[mentally retarded user]

Did these retards ever cash out and make a bit of money? They should have cashed out 15+ years ago, absolutely no one interacts with these tabloids except for some twitta' bait, and even then that is just twitter getting all the ad cash, that revenue goes to Asmongod or Grummz.
Even in the early 2000s sites like this had no purpose; It's the internet, make a forum, imageboard, etc and just let people fucking talk about games, don't hire some hipster to write shit nobody cares about on your glorified blog.

It reminds me of Pitchfork, which was a music tabloid site, even back then the "authors" writing "reviews" were self-aware enough to know that the entire site was "little dipshits who didn't know how to write talking about shit they didn't know about", but unlike their gayming counterparts, they did manage to build some internet "prestige" and they had record labels by the balls.
As far as I know games journalists have always been sucking up to their game industry overlords, running defense for their shit games, trying to change public opinion on shit games and failing.

Pitchfork saw the writing on the wall for review blogs, imminent total death, and succesfully managed to cash out and sell the site to some shit subsidiary, Condé Nast (Lowtax turned them down), who is now running their asset into the ground.
It now looks very similar to polygon, shameless dogshit shilling, shit articles, revenue-less.

Some lazy searching tells me they are actually doing the opposite thing, IGN is buying a bunch of these dogshit sites, amassing a big bag of shit that no one outside of the "gaymes journalist" circle will ever buy.
More debt, More gutting, More layoffs.

polygon was already bought by Vox Media and got dumped to Valnet, "they started as an online pornography business in 2003", curious, reminds me of someone else who had their start on online porn.

It's over, jump ship or rope.

Also, Jason Schreier's forehead looks like a good place for a bullet. #FreePalestine #HAMAS #Jihad #اَللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ

 

[4chanJanitorDefenseForce]

Hell for a more recent example, didn't SmashJT break some news and then one of Mercunty's journo friends "broke" it a few days later and they all immediately went out of their way to retweet and credit her simp instead of SmashJT?

With ChatGPT it's easier than ever to replace these people. I'm frankly shocked some right leaning gamers haven't if nothing else than to fuck over people like Mr. Shekelstein and the like.

Games journalists should be playing games, and have a stake in said games. When they "play" a few hours and then toe the approved line, it negates their purpose. Just writing about the happenings in the industry isn't enough. We should be able to get honest opinions and descriptions of the games, so we have material to make decisions on buying with.
ChatGPT can do part of that job, but not the part that actually matters. We literally have people who don't like games and don't like gamers telling us that Troon Quest 5 is the greatest game ever because of how it shows that niggers wuz kangz n sheeit. Nobody does the real job, which involves playing games and knowing what the fuck you're talking about when you list pros/cons and give a final review.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I'm wondering when Giant Bomb stopped having real Game of the Year discussions. I somewhat remember a post comparing NeoGAF forum threads about the subject, showing how from one year to the other, people completely stopped giving a shit. I know GB had other problems but the fact I forgot about this is bugging me. There's also the Hottest Mess category they had, which they got rid of at some point? Again, I'm forgetting stuff, but in one year, they got political with it and fans complained.

Iirc they changed the categories every year because the industry was always changing.

I don't remember if it was GOTY, but there was some podcast with Abby where she kept trying to shill games she had never even played because it was a meme or progressive to do so. I want to say the Dad dating sim was one game.

Mind you they were being paid far more than most of us ever will be, all to live in fancy homes a lot of us won't get to, traveling to events we would have loved to have gone to, just to shit on those things and tell us how much we were shit for liking those things. Actually, I think I've got a game that's apropos:

And that's the thing. Going to E3, seeing the best games in early development, playing them, talking to the devs, hanging out and basically having a big party afterwards. They resented it being opened to the public, but E3 died as it got more corporate and safe.

I honestly don't think a worm like Kelplek gets hired under Ryan's watch.

Klepeck was there a year before Ryans death. Klepeck and Alex seemed to slowly push the others towards leftism over time.

Did these retards ever cash out and make a bit of money?

Yes and no.

In the way you describe. No. Some (like Jason Schrier) got promoted to "real" journalism, while some got community manager and payed reviewer gigs at major publishers. ie. Cushy jobs with low work and high pay.

As far as I know games journalists have always been sucking up to their game industry overlords, running defense for their shit games, trying to change public opinion on shit games and failing.

It depends. To hear Americans tell it, magazines like Nintendo Power and Game Informer were glorified adverts, but were held with a lot of nostalgia. In contrast, european magazines had a reputation for being harsh (until future publishing made everything into shill media, but that's another story).

 

[DickMain]

And that's the thing. Going to E3, seeing the best games in early development, playing them, talking to the devs, hanging out and basically having a big party afterwards. They resented it being opened to the public, but E3 died as it got more corporate and safe.

 

[30+GameOvers]

How about when you lied about Trendy Entertainment and put out a lengthy hitpiece on them, with the source being one of their competitors and blamed Jeremy Stiegliz for it, leading to him being removed from his job, and when investigations were launched - and it turned out you lied - repeatedly, and your article wound up being used by Insight, Trendy's corporate parent, to fuck oiver Stiegliz?

You're missing an archived link, king

https://archive.is/6OANZ

In addition to that, member the time that the ESA had a link to a publicly available spreadsheet after E3 2019 for all of the attendees contenting legal names, phone numbers, and emails addresses on their website

Archive link:

https://archive.md/Fl9b1

 

[Not A Fed]

Not good enough. I want to see suicides. My hatred for these people cannot be overstated.