Yahtzee and his coworkers and team recently escaped from The Escapist (pun intended) to form a new independent group called Second Wind, too. I’m enjoying the direction that gaming media is going. Corporate media can mercilessly suck all value out of the industry until it withers and dies, and the names and legacies of these places will die with it, but they can’t destroy the talent if the community are still behind them.
Its good in the sense that independent news media is needed more and more every day.
It is bad in that the reason the corporations are killing every outlet they can is because… there just isn’t a lot of money left in the various forms of news media. There is only so much to go around and monetizing any of that is increasingly difficult. The big names (like Yahtzee) will be fine. But I am very much worried about outlets like Polygon who did an AMAZING job over the years but, outside of MAYBE Pat Gill, never really became Personalities. And they are arriving pretty late to the game since they… weren’t fired as quickly as the folk at Vice and the like.
Time will tell and I wish them all the best. I am basically ride or die Remap Radio at this point but am floating subscriptions around to the rest. 404 mostly has my “news” subscription, if not on lock then on very firmly shut. Gaming… I am not sure if I care enough about game coverage but I’ll definitely keep an eye out on Rogue.
Yahtzee and his coworkers and team recently escaped from The Escapist (pun intended) to form a new independent group called Second Wind, too. I’m enjoying the direction that gaming media is going. Corporate media can mercilessly suck all value out of the industry until it withers and dies, and the names and legacies of these places will die with it, but they can’t destroy the talent if the community are still behind them.
Its good in the sense that independent news media is needed more and more every day.
It is bad in that the reason the corporations are killing every outlet they can is because… there just isn’t a lot of money left in the various forms of news media. There is only so much to go around and monetizing any of that is increasingly difficult. The big names (like Yahtzee) will be fine. But I am very much worried about outlets like Polygon who did an AMAZING job over the years but, outside of MAYBE Pat Gill, never really became Personalities. And they are arriving pretty late to the game since they… weren’t fired as quickly as the folk at Vice and the like.
Time will tell and I wish them all the best. I am basically ride or die Remap Radio at this point but am floating subscriptions around to the rest. 404 mostly has my “news” subscription, if not on lock then on very firmly shut. Gaming… I am not sure if I care enough about game coverage but I’ll definitely keep an eye out on Rogue.