ubisoft / New York Times Uses Ubisoft Co-Founder's Obituary To Launder 'DEI' Complaints About An Assassin's Creed Game Citing Elon Musk's racism in an unrelated man's obituary is some real weird shit By Luke Plunkett / 23 Jun 2026
Media / Outlets Don't Have To Do Xbox's Work For It A glowing profile of Xbox in Entertainment Weekly is just PR in a different hat By Riley MacLeod / 23 Jun 2026
Labor / IGN Lays Off Tech Workers Following Summer Game Fest, Where Pro-Union Messages Were Erased Layoffs affected four tech workers who were potentially eligible to join the IGN Creators Guild, as the union continues to bargain its first contract By Riley MacLeod / 11 Jun 2026
Media / Workers At TheGamer Say Site’s New Pay-Per-Session Contract Is ‘Heartbreaking’ Under a new payment system, writers at Valnet-owned TheGamer would no longer be guaranteed consistent pay for their work By Riley MacLeod / 25 May 2026
Media / With Vox Sale, Digital Media Networks Take Another Step Closer To The Grave Jim Bankoff has sold Vox, its podcasts, and New York Magazine to James Murdoch By Riley MacLeod / 20 May 2026
Media / Paste Ends The Games Coverage That Gave So Many Writers Their Start After briefly being a standalone site and then being folded into The AV Club, Paste's games writing seems to be no more By Riley MacLeod / 1 May 2026
Politics / Business As Usual Interrupted By Business As Usual, Followed By Business As Usual Conspiracies are flourishing in the aftermath of gunfire at The White House Correspondents' Association dinner By Riley MacLeod / 26 Apr 2026
Media / Culture Crave Sucks Too many of you are sharing posts from a network that steals other people's work! By Luke Plunkett / 31 Mar 2026
Media / 2023: Buzzfeed Pivots To AI. 2026: Buzzfeed Is In Big Trouble. 'In 2023, you’ll see AI inspired content move from an R&D stage to part of our core business' (wet fart sound) By Luke Plunkett / 13 Mar 2026
journalism / They Do This Because They Can Wednesday's Washington Post layoffs didn't need to happen By Riley MacLeod / 4 Feb 2026
journalism / Gambling Isn't News News outlets' forays into prediction markets confuse noise with information By Riley MacLeod / 27 Jan 2026
News / Games Journalism Layoffs Hit Inverse, The Verge Media companies continue to have no idea what to do with gaming coverage By Riley MacLeod / 16 Jan 2026
