1200 games journalists gone in two years? Sounds like rookie numbers to me. - Kotaku In Action 2

1200 games journalists gone in two years? Sounds like rookie numbers to me. (www.videogameschronicle.com)

posted 241 days ago by CanuckElhead 241 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%

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– ModsAreAIDS 13 points 241 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 240 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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