This and second wind? It may be too early to call Trend but one can hope.
And GamesBeat, and Aftermath, and NextLander. I think this is the only way game media survives. The corporate ownership doesn’t appear to work for anything other than the IGNs of the world.
And I’d question how long it’s working for them at least long term. You’re only an asset until they’re looking for a scapegoat.
For IGN, probably indefinitely. They do real journalism and real criticism over there, but their site is also a horrendous challenge to navigate due to ads, and there’s more Star Wars and Marvel on the front page than there are video games. Gamespot follows a similar model, and they’re still under Fandom, and that will probably work out…fine…ish…compared to trying to make Giant Bomb work under that banner.
It might be a little more tense than you think. There are a lot of real journalism criticism Etc trying to go Indy as well. Mostly in one Niche or another.
When it comes to a lot of scamming cryptocurrency and online things. One could argue people like coffeezilla are the better source to watch than a lot of other sites.
It’s only a matter of time until more people try it. Depending upon their success it could easily spell the end of sites like that. All someone has to do is prove another model viable. Imagine one of the staff from IGN splits taking along some of their contacts with them. And using that to get interviews and leveraging more contacts Etc .
It seems there may be a trend. And as you said there’s a lot of people who would gladly rather frequently site not as dense and slathered in s*** advertisements.
Kinda Funny did exactly that, and IGN still stands taller. But I think that just speaks to how many competitors can possibly follow that same model, because they’re driven by ad revenue and SEO.
For sure no one else is liable to beat them at that game. Long term it isn’t really sustainable for a large group of individuals. But the thing is the game has always changed and will continue to change.
The moment there’s a hiccup in the SEO and ad revenue. There’s a good chance the Psychopaths with the money. Who don’t understand or care what’s going on will come at them like they have everyone else. Either way it’s good to see a lot of these groups getting back to their roots and taking the reins for themselves again. It’s enough to warm and anarchist’s heart
This is wonderful news. Long live Giant Bomb.
Does this mean Fandom won’t be trash anymore???
Is this real? Just listened to Nextlanders take on it this morning and this seems very unexpected!!!
Giant Bomb drops the best kind of Giant News Bomb!.. but I am left bothered by the question of whether it is truly correct to describe this as “dropping a big news bomb”, or whether in a strangely precise way this is somehow a sort of reverse “bomb undropping”, blast damage from unnecessarily destructive practices lifted with the wave of a capitalist wand that frees a denied landscape to regrow into cool shit, so should I actually say Giant Bomb Undrops The Bomb And It Is Bomb ? ?
I feel like you’re trying to set us up the bomb.
I wouldn’t really bother, trying to set up the bomb is always putting yourself into a trap by definition, better to set up with aplomb.
