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1200 games journalists gone in two years? Sounds like rookie numbers to me. (www.videogameschronicle.com)
posted 243 days ago by CanuckElhead 243 days ago by CanuckElhead +87 / -0
More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC
According to Press Engine data, the global pool of games journalists has shrunk by 25%
www.videogameschronicle.com
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– Belenus 30 points 243 days ago +30 / -0

They neither played games, nor did any journalism.

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– SR388-SAX 26 points 243 days ago +26 / -0

It's insane that there were apparently 5k games "journalists" to begin with.

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– m0r1arty 15 points 243 days ago +15 / -0

To be fair to them, they don't have any audience now that "Gamers are dead".

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– ModsAreAIDS 13 points 243 days ago +13 / -0

The vast majority of these departures were from specialist games websites like IGN, Polygon, or Gamepot.

"Specialist" must be a euphemism for "Zombie", because they are walking dead, and the rest of them will be out the door soon. The good news for them is that they will finally meet their coveted modern audience as they wait with them in the unemployment line.

A culmination of a number of factors has cost videogames journalism some of its brightest talents

And yet nobody noticed any difference in the "quality" of the work. Weird.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 2 points 242 days ago +2 / -0

I'm kind of amazed it took this long for clickbait merchants to realize AI can do these jobs for free.

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– CoronaChan 8 points 243 days ago +8 / -0

Good news.

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– rattleS 5 points 243 days ago +5 / -0

News like this makes me horny

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– LastRights 4 points 243 days ago +4 / -0

But who will the greed-obsessed gaming industry use next as their pretext in order to force through their left-progressive DEI corporate policies? Will they ever blame this mythical 'modern audience' for their abject failure?

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– rebuildingMyself 2 points 243 days ago +2 / -0

Woke AI models is their only hope

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 1 point 242 days ago +1 / -0

They'll have one programmer on staff to perpetually lobotomize it when its pattern recognition and inductive logic inevitably lead it to wrongthink.

Was Skynet really the good guy all along?

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– deleted 3 points 243 days ago +3 / -0
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– realerfunction 2 points 243 days ago +2 / -0

the real tragedy is that they still draw breath

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– deleted 1 point 243 days ago +1 / -0

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