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Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)

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G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Video game journalism has been crappy for a long, loooong time. You ever read pre-Ziff Davis EGM or GamePro? It's like a lobotomy in print form.

[–] Colombo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet, there always has been a good journalism, either very quality reviews describing well the game in question, or very funny articles making fun of a game that is otherwise boring or bad.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying the magazines of the time were totally devoid of good gaming coverage. Video Games and Computer Entertainment was a solid, substantial read... the layout was nothing special, but the writing was pure quality. Kind of helped that they were writing articles for adults and not edgy fourteen year olds, or nine year olds hopped up on sugar.

[–] Colombo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Agree. And yet again, there was reason why gaming bloggers and YouTubers like TotalBiscuit got so much popular. Gaming Journalism crashed.

I am not disagreeing with you, I grew up on Level and Score personally.

[–] phosphorik@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yo I loved EGM back in the N64 era and I’m pretty sure that was Ziff Davis. Then again maybe I was lobotomized with a magazine.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ziff-Davis EGM was pretty good. Pre Ziff-Davis EGM (the Sendai era, from 1989 to 1997) was not.