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
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
Former Game Informer staff announced today that the site and magazine are coming back, following their abrupt closure by owner GameStop last August. The entire staff at the time of
We wrote about Valnet’s low pay rates in a previous article about how underpaid freelancers are propping up games journalism. Today, new reporting by The Wrap shines more light
In July 2024 we bid farewell to Kotaku Australia, a very good website that suffered a long and undeserved demise at the hands of inept ownership. Now, in March 2025,
I love all my friends and colleagues here at Aftermath, but part of loving someone is acknowledging they are not perfect. Take Nathan, for example. While he has beautiful, perfect
This morning, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos shared a new direction for the paper’s opinion section, both with staff and, for some reason, with all of Twitter: from now
404 Media reports that media company Ziff Davis, the owners of IGN, CNET, Eurogamer, Lifehacker, PCMag and more, has scrubbed many mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from its
On Tuesday, Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced his company will be launching its own social media platform, news he buried at the end of a long, tone-deaf manifesto about how
Having first announced the initiative in December 2023, the Video Game History Foundation today launched (well, in early access, at least) their online library, an exhaustive effort to not only
