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Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by klondike_klive on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:06AM (#38176839)
Check out Rock Paper Shotgun. One of the few sites whose articles I read purely for pleasure.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by MrMember on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:22AM (#38177020)
RPS is a shell of its former self. The amazing writers from the early days all left years ago and it's mostly just an SEO spam site now.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by DizzyDoo on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:14AM (#38176925)
I very much enjoyed RPS in the days of the original four writers, and also when Quinns was contributing, though I haven't kept up so much in the last eight years or so.

Eurogamer seems to cover the games news and reviews in the way I like best right now, and Digital Foundary's writing and videos that lean on the more technical side of games are just excellent. (I believe DF also have an arrangement to do some content for RPS, so it's probably being shared around as it should.)

Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:40AM (#38179029)
That site has been dead to me ever since the gamersgate fiasco.

Leading up to that fiasco people were already frustrated with game media for being in bed with game publishers. And no, I don't care if they have a right to sleep together, I care that the journalistic integrity was so missing they couldn't be bothered to have someone else write the piece or be open about it. And then the entire war on gamers as misogynists for wanting game journalists to have some integrity.

I've never even opened their website since.