Being a writer in any reliably compensated position is rare and getting rarer. Reporting and media criticism is rarer still, and the number of people who get paid to write
Hi, it's still Inside Baseball Week here at Aftermath, and because there is nothing more inside baseball than a website posting about its own editorial values in a
Welcome to another instalment of What I Do, a regular Aftermath feature that takes a single person doing a single job in the video game industry and explains just what,
On Thursday, April 3, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement made Microsoft a “priority target” of its call to boycott companies it identifies as complicit in the unlawful occupation
We’ve (sadly) covered a lot of games media stories that involve writers being laid off, sites being shuffled around and sometimes even whole companies shutting down. For Inside Baseball
It’s been about a week since Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct, which showcased the console, its upcoming slate of games, and (eventually) the price. Since then, the internet has
At the tail end of March, over two years after being given the boot from Twitch, Adin Ross was suddenly unbanned. This came as a surprise to many viewers – and
Last week was Cinemacon, essentially the E3 of the film world, for better and worse. Over four days, major studios like Disney and Lionsgate take over Caesars Palace in Las
What if Riven was a roguelite? What if Telling Lies was a deckbuilder? What if Pipe Mania was themed like The Masque of the Red Death? What if the board game Carcassonne was also a mystery novel?
Back at Kotaku, our style guide contained a list of over-used or meaningless phrases that were banned from headlines and articles. My strongest memory is of “looks” making an appearance
Imagine the opening credits playing on a pilot episode of a television show—the scene-setting, the character introductions teasing backstories and defining traits, the tantalizing hints of the larger story
