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@monsterislandcolonizer @Jim Probably a tad better. It was still the era where they would have sexy video games gal pinup covers and such
It's the next gen that went to absolute shit with AAA and Hollywood level marketing money, and with Hollywood marketing money also came the focus groups and the cleaning up of everything. The same shitlib who were responsible for that push will now make you believe they're good "leftist" fighting the good fight when they basically were on both side of ruining gaming by promoting AAA hard and then ruining gaming and gaming journo by promoting SJW shit
https://archive.ph/w1fVv
Basically the horsemen of the gaming journo apocalysm in that link above, their brain has been so destroyed by politics that the first thing they mention about a paid gaming journo subscription thing is "capitalism"
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>Four ex-Kotaku (Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, Riley MacLeod, and Luke Plunkett) are launching a new subscriber-based video games and culture publication: Aftermath
https://archive.ph/w1fVv
> Jackson elaborates: “I’m so interested in taking Aftermath and using the site to discuss the way that we live now and the way that capitalism and the internet have really intertwined
Not that it's totally wrong, but "Videogames?" this is a real great start to them explaining their website and I absolutely do not trust any of the Kotaku fuckers to not have terrible IDPol filled articles that are just plain garbage
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>putting up with abuse and harassment from readers
As Kotaku didn't deserve most of that hate