In March, we ran a story about the Gamurs Group, a network of video game websites that includes Dot Esports, Destructoid, Twinfinite, Attack of the Fanboy, WGTC and Siliconera. Specifically,
In the grand tradition of the Friday night news dump, a tweet from a former Twitch employee has set the internet alight with speculation that, at long last, we’ve
A few weeks ago, Nathan and I wrote about how Rolling Stone was getting back into games journalism, after previously shuttering a games vertical in 2017. Now, Variety–which also
In last Friday’s Aftermath newsletter, I wrote about an interview Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann gave to a Sony blog. He said a lot of dumb shit about
Today, Rolling Stone announced the launch of Rolling Stone Gaming, a vertical dedicated to “taking a serious (or deeply unserious) journalistic approach to telling the story of games through the
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it has acquired the Gamer Network of sites – which includes Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, and VG247 – from Reedpop, which owns PAX and has
Near the end of an hour-plus long interview, while Geoff Keighley looks on, IGN Executive Editor Ryan McCaffrey says to Ken Levine, “I think the gaming industry is such
Jen Glennon, who took over as editor in chief of Kotaku in October, resigned Thursday. In a resignation letter seen by Aftermath, Glennon says that she made this choice due
It sure is an interesting time for games journalism, which as we’ve all learned from living in continually interesting times, is not necessarily – or even typically – a good thing.
Natalie Flores wasn’t going to let herself get laid off twice. She made her peace with the idea of getting cut from a games journalism job one time – she’
“How do I get my start in the gaming press?” is a question that’s difficult to answer. The reasons for this are twofold. First, media is constantly being slowly
Since launching Aftermath, articles like our headlines post, the Insomniac hack, Suicide Squad fiasco and some old war stories have made us realise something. Well, two things: Firstly, a lot
