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Fancy_Robot said:
Washington Post fired most of it's video game vertical Launcher, including Nathan Grayson himself. Hate to see it... Ouch
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The Washington Post Begins Layoffs After Months of Turmoil

Months after announcing incoming layoffs, WaPo management on Tuesday began making the dreaded cuts.
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Actually they fired all of their video game journalists, I just saw Gene Park was let go as well. He's like of the very few decent people in the industry and just finished chemo like two months ago, so I guess it's not all good news.
 
Alcoholism said:
I don't understand the appeal of the Gerstmann show. Tuned in for my second episode yesterday and it was just 30 minutes of him drinking grape soda and talking about how much he likes grape soda and misses 4 loko.

Who the fuck is paying for this?
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It's not for everyone but it at least stands out as a weird and chill stream.

Most Twitch streams (doubly so for "industry" streams) are not professional people trying to act professional. Jeff's stream is a professional person doing incredibly mundane shit and telling off-the-wall stories.

It's not for me but I at least get the niche appeal. If I had to choose though I'd watch a Gerstmann stream way the fuck before I'd check out whatever Giantbomb is calling "content" these days.
 
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Fancy_Robot said:
Washington Post fired most all of it's video game vertical Launcher, including Nathan Grayson himself. Hate to see it... Ouch
www.thedailybeast.com

The Washington Post Begins Layoffs After Months of Turmoil

Months after announcing incoming layoffs, WaPo management on Tuesday began making the dreaded cuts.
www.thedailybeast.com
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I’m late to this new story, but this is just proof that the more nepotistic and/or political journalism goes in the sense as to how they’re pushing “video game journalism” to the public, the more you will get things like this happening.

The worst part, though, is that they keep spreading towards other places where they think they’re needed. It’s the equivalent of failing upwards while not learning anything at all.
 
Fancy_Robot said:
Actually they fired all of their video game journalists, I just saw Gene Park was let go as well. He's like of the very few decent people in the industry and just finished chemo like two months ago, so I guess it's not all good news.
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IIRC Gene Park was kept on but will be publishing under their Life and Style vertical. So he'll be "the games guy" in a larger brand.
Most everyone else was booted out the door.
 

Twitter’s ‘Useless’ Animation Facts Will Change How You See Your Favorite Show​

Each day, I walk down the path of blue-lit internet highways, through Instagram rabbit holes to nowhere, across Wikipedia pages I don’t remember why I was scanning, my face painted a clinical white by my favorite Google question, “Do I have a UTI?”

I do not have a UTI, at least not until I Google the question again tonight,
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kotaku.com

Twitter’s ‘Useless’ Animation Facts Will Change How You See Your Favorite Show

Including one particularly long screed about the DreamWorks movie Shrek
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Admittedly, this does not much have to do with gaming journalism, but this interesting video talks about how writing in recent years has taken a nosedive when it comes to recent games like Borderlands and Saints Row.

I think it can apply to the journalists of the New Age™ that cover video game and video game industry news.
 
Alcoholism said:
I don't understand the appeal of the Gerstmann show. Tuned in for my second episode yesterday and it was just 30 minutes of him drinking grape soda and talking about how much he likes grape soda and misses 4 loko.

Who the fuck is paying for this?
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Jonah Hill poster said:
My guess is that the audience is filed with 30+ year old men that still want to re-live their youth as high school kids that suffered arrested development because they did not curse out their parents enough.
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This is going to sound bad, but you've sold me on the show.

@Jonah Hill poster kind of has it right, but for the wrong reason. Some of my favorite GB content was early podcasts where they'd review random energy drinks. It wasn't planned, they just happened to talk about whatever drinks they had that day and it became a tradition.

Obviously I'm not really interested in soda reviews, but if it means Jeff has mellowed out a bit, and has returned to speaking his mind, that's potentially interesting.
 
Judge Dredd said:
This is going to sound bad, but you've sold me on the show.

@Jonah Hill poster kind of has it right, but for the wrong reason. Some of my favorite GB content was early podcasts where they'd review random energy drinks. It wasn't planned, they just happened to talk about whatever drinks they had that day and it became a tradition.

Obviously I'm not really interested in soda reviews, but if it means Jeff has mellowed out a bit, and has returned to speaking his mind, that's potentially interesting.
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He's a lot happier now. You can tell he's genuinely excited about shit and that's why I like listening to him now vs. the last few years of Giant Bomb where he seemed bored and disinterested. You'd got those flashes of excitement occasionally on the podcast, but he almost always needed an excuse to get into the topic. Now he doesn't need one.

As you said, it's not about whether you like the content (soda reviews, monitor/graphics card chat.) Jeff is a fun guy to listen to. It's what "New" Giant Bomb missed when they announced all those crazy shows after the last buyout. I remember reading comments on Reddit that were like "Why do they have a music review show but nobody from Giant Bomb is actually on it?" and there were 100% unironic posts like "uhhhhhhhh they've been talking about music on the Bombcast for years, dude! GB has always covered this stuff." Yeah, of course they have - but it was only interesting because I liked the people talking about it! Same with energy drink reviews. Just speaks to how good the main product is (video game chat) that people will stick around to hear them talk about literally anything else.
 
Win98SE said:
He's a lot happier now. You can tell he's genuinely excited about shit and that's why I like listening to him now vs. the last few years of Giant Bomb where he seemed bored and disinterested. You'd got those flashes of excitement occasionally on the podcast, but he almost always needed an excuse to get into the topic. Now he doesn't need one.
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Very much has an AM Radio vibe to it.
 
Patric Klepek is incensed that someone would play and review games for fun.


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I don't even know how gaming journalism lasted as long as it has. People trust youtubers and streamers more than they trust journalists, across the board. Surely the companies know it must be a better cost/benefit just bribing a couple of top youtubers or streamers?

Maybe this whole recession will cause a correction?
 
Alter Ego said:
It has to be a former fan, huh?

Lol, at the broader exchange, though.
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It comes off like Gita Jackson really wants to play the game as a secret current Harry Potter fan deep down and is trying to justify it with her judging, puritanical peers by insisting that it's for a scathing review.
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Patrick takes bold unapologetic stance and then backs down instantly when POC questions him.
 
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