Games journalism suffers an identity crisis

How Games Journalism Lost Its Soul - Secrets of Grimoire Manor

Around the same time some games journalists clumsily insinuated that the gamer identity itself might be “dead” (turns out, not so much.) The ...

Some "Gaming Journalists" & Friends aren't Coping very well with ...

... crisis inside your head. Also the fact that you tie politics to ... identity. Hell even the robot had pronouns. That's woke my dude ...

2023 feels like an extinction level crisis for video game journalism

In January 2017, I sent an email to Waypoint, VICE's gaming vertical, pitching an essay. Here's an excerpt — the meat of the pitch:.

The Media's Identity Crisis - Bad News - The Atlantic

“You are the media now.” That's the message that began to cohere among right-wing influencers shortly after Donald Trump won the election ...

The Problem With Video Game Journalism | Cold Take - YouTube

Update: accidentally left video context at out at 1:10:29 pertaining to Marty being virtually unhireable after what he did at IGN and him ...

Metajournalistic Discourse on The Rise of Gaming Journalism

Audiences got the best of the gaming journalists—the gamer identity cultivated over years of exclusionary journalistic strategy ended up leaving gaming ...

Gamergate (harassment campaign) - Wikipedia

Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") claimed to be promoting ethics in video game journalism and protecting the "gamer" identity in opposition to "political ...

The Gamer Identity Crisis - First Person Scholar

by the media that has led society to believe that this behavior is disproportionately typical of members of the gaming community as there is no ...

Game Journalism Layoffs: Everyone Suffers Without Expert Criticism

That media can't exist without support for its workers. What Is Happening to Video Games Journalism? You can say this is a bit inside baseball, ...

Why have game journalists become more interested in politics than ...

Someone told me it's because lots of gaming journalists right now aren't actually gamers or fans of games they are journalism majors who weren't good enough to ...

Calm Down, It's Just Society - The Life Programmable

The gamer is suffering from an identity crisis as modern journalism balkanizes public perceptions. While the majority of people who play ...

Tackling the Gamer Identity Crisis - Game Developer

Popular TV, web series', and news media have all portrayed the same reclusive, socially inept, basement dwelling gamer stereotype to some extent ...

The Mainstreaming of US Games Journalism - Scholars' Bank

professional identity and practices have been shaped by this persistent ambiguity. ... The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of. Authority ...

The GamerGate controversy and journalistic paradigm maintenance

The journalists acknowledged that gaming journalism had suffered ... identity crisis, and ethical concerns regarding augmented and virtual ...

Identity Crisis: Pulling eSports Off Its Own Sword - The Cauldron

On May 11, 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer bested world champion chess player Garry Kasparov in a six-day, six-game rematch that saw three draws, ...

Desperate Game Journalists Know They're Losing, Smear Steam as ...

... games journalists and activists devs will stop at nothing to maintain this power because they see it as their mission and duty to push identity ...

Identity Crisis: Game Developer - The Forgotten Soul

I hopped around to a few other developers profiles and found they also suffered from the same prioritization. Before. After. I can understand a ...

Adventure games are suffering from an identity crisis and an image ...

Four years ago, I looked at adventure games with wide-eyed optimism. After over a decade of struggle, it seemed like the genre that first ...

Audience Repair as Paradigm Repair: Fixing the 'Gamer' in Games ...

mediums at the time where such debates could take place. 7. In gaming journalism, discourse. is “bound with the identity of a gamer,”.

Final Fantasy's sales crisis is also an identity crisis | Opinion

In hindsight, many players were nonplussed by the consequences of Square Enix's ambition to make the game into the heart of a cross-media ...