IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum.As a result of the acq…
  • Norgur@fedia.io
    37·
    7 months ago

    Every time I start to think that video game journalism cannot possibly become more biased towards triple A publishers they prove me wrong right away.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    7 months ago

    This should be illegal. IGN buys up practically everyone except Kotaku so they technically don’t own a monopoly over the gaming media sector?

    EDIT: Hang on, wait a minute. Humble is a games publisher. IGN is a games reviewer. Isn’t that conflict of interest?

      • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        Aren’t they the ones that made it so you have to give at least 30% to humble no matter how you do the distribution

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          That came after the purchase, yes. They’re also far less likely to have DRM-free versions of games these days. It destroyed a lot of my reason for shopping there.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    Finally, if someone asked me what the game journalism industry needs, it’s definitely more consolidation.

    Tap for spoiler

    /s

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    7 months ago

    At least a couple of those sites are mostly bot-written advertisements. RockPaperShotgun being the biggest offender…a shame because it has the best name

      • jeeva@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        When the founders all left, and/or Eurogamer acquired it (related) and started pushing the same videos/rubbish guides designed for SEO optimization rather than interesting articles written with passion.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          21·
          7 months ago

          Or Twitch or Patreon or Floatplane or Nebula or TikTok or download the videos with yt-dlp or whatever.
          There are enough creators and platforms out there to access the information in some way

      • mindbleachEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        And half of them are slaves to the algorithm.

    • vulgarcynicEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Nextlander is still going strong and independent. GiantBomb is in a good spot again as well. They have corpo-overlords but are still producing good content.