Just over a week after being "blow up" by owners Fandom, a very exciting press release has hit our inboxes this evening: the site/podcast has been sold
Gaming site Polygon has been sold to Valnet, Kotaku first reported Thursday morning. Valnet has retained a handful of staff, with the majority of Polygon workers losing their jobs.
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The Gamurs group of video game websites, a one-time media darling, have for the past year been struggling following changes made by Google's search algorithm that have
Some people looooooooove to talk shit about Kotaku, a publication that all of us here at Aftermath used to work at. Over the last 20+ years the site has been
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
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
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,
