What Funk and Speed said (Gaming)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, June 01, 2016, 11:34 (3097 days ago) @ Funkmon

I'd say the majority of what gets published on Kotaku is complete garbage. However, I feel the entirety of what gets published in every other gaming site is garbage, with the extremely rare examples here and there. It's not that there aren't good writers trying to do good work at other sites, it's just that every other major site is completely under the thump of videogame publishers and PR teams. They are the best kind of marketing, because people don't think of them as marketing. Publishers don't control the opinions that gaming sites express, but they do control when they express them, and what they express them about.

Kotaku, at the very least, is willing to break that cycle. Schrier and Klepek combined account for like 99% of the videogame articles that are actually worth reading over the past 2 years. Everything else is just click bait and/or part of a publisher's marketing agenda (again, with very few exceptions).