Delusibeta wrote:Trelliz wrote:Bunch of scummy internet clickbait shitlords defy courts, peddle bullshit, get caught. I agree with irene, at least kotaku was a sort of holding pen. If it goes then they'll spread out.
Actually, I'd give good odds that most would wind up in the other games journalism holding pen, Polygon.
Polygon...where, as a writer, you're only as 'distinct' as the opinions you are allowed to express. Polygon is the flip-side to sites like Gawker. Where Gawker specialised in sensationalist crap, Polygon excels in politically-correct, self-regarding navel gazing for the millennial generation.
Frankly I don't like either. There has to be a middle ground - where the redundancy of mind numbing clickbait is kept to a minimum whilst encouraging a wealth of voices from across the social and (importantly not the case with Polygon at the moment) the political spectrum. Listening to the Polygon podcast (which I do - I have it on iTunes subscription) is too often like getting a lesson in political correctness from a bunch of narrow-minded west coast Bay-dwelling liberals. We need more varied voices, differences of opinions that reflect the wider cultural and political world in which video games operate. And Polygon's relentless - often tedious - focus on small indie games most of us have never heard about (but games with what Polygon deems 'worthy' aims, or messages) is now getting beyond parody. Listening to the Polygon crew struggle to navigate the fraught (distinctly off message) themes of the latest Clancy game, The Division, was mildly entertaining for all the wrong reasons. I really don't know why I put up with Arthur Gies any more, tbh.