Traditional gaming news websites like Kotaku and ign are dying

>Traditional gaming news websites like Kotaku and ign are dying
>Youtube celebs like Jim Sterling and Totalbiscuit are their replacement

I don't know how to feel about this

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I get my news from /r/games

I get opinions I should ignore from here and opinions I should *consider* from Jim Sterling and other vidya youtubers like Super Bunnyhop, you should too

Total Tumor can disappear though, he's about as wrong as Sup Forums these days

text format will always be superior to video format unless the review calls for an actual video
95% of youtube "analysis" / review videos are just some faggot reading from the paper with no need for a video, but teenagers prefer it that way because reading is too hard apparently

>alexa.com/siteinfo/kotaku.com
I hate everything Sterling personally stands for but i love that fat fucks content and he's usually right when it comes to the game industry.

>I get my news from leddit
Enjoy being late for everything, tourist.

>kotaku
>traditional

I am on this website and lebbit daily, I usually get news on the hour

Though gaming news is usually announced to be announced weeks in advance so it's hard to be late for stuff

>Traditional gaming news websites

>Tourist
Where do you think you are? Sup Forums is reddit central.

Kotaku being replaced is inherently good.

>I browse leddit so must everyone else
Nice newfag logic

Kotaku isn't dying, they are bringing more content to youtube and video.

They are as prominent as they have ever been

It's easier to evoke emotions, keks and cause some drama with video. Video format will succeed because you can actually talk whatever the fuck you wish (provided you're not tied to some big corporate entity), and it's just more entertaining to hear someone "shit talk" something rather than "shit post".

>Listening to CuckSpermling

Lmaoing your life senpai

There's no reason not to take opinions from as many sources as possible to form your own opinions

Plus his show is entertaining, that's quite rare in the industry now.

so has Sup Forums just become a subreddit at this point?

You wanna explain what that means?

No, it's reddit except you get to see all the negative comments because they're not downvoted

anonymity + every post has equal visibility = platform where people can say what they want

Most people prefer it for that

Because Jim Sterling and Total Biscuit are people who do real gaming journalism and care about gaming more than shitty sites like Kotaku and IGN.

>caring about any opinion but your own

>Youtube celebs like Jim Sterling and Totalbiscuit are their replacement
one dying thing replaced by another dying thing

>shit being replaced with other shit
There isn't much of anything to feel about this.

>Opinions are formed out of thin air

what will she do

If anything Sup Forums is the anti-Reddit, because the dumber the post is the more (You)s it will get as everyone wants to be in le ebic screencap

I wouldn't have it any other way

Isn't she going to work with Danny's new company?

>Getting advice from overweight people

porn

>an image is better than a long discourse
I think they're not dynamical enough to create a full youtube channel with different podcasts of journalists

or maybe they're fat and ugly?

It's a American thing

she's going to become sjw and make a patreon? idk

>Total Tumor

>laughing at generic joke
>generic reaction image

are you underage or just the most easily entertained person on earth

>Traditional gaming news websites like Kotaku and ign are dying
Thank you Jesus.

>Youtube celebs like Jim Sterling and Totalbiscuit are their replacement
One's dying of cancer and the other is gonna die of a heart attack, so nothing of value will be lost.

>not wanting to explore and understand other points of view other than your own
why

>I was here post-goober therefore Sup Forums is now reddit

it's a good thing old Sup Forums jumped ship to a less shittier place

totalbiscuit can't be a replacement if he is dying himself

I enjoy simple stuff. What are you so angry about user?

>Kotaku
>Points of view
>Having anything worth exploring

Fuck you.

>not being a fuckhead who thrives on cognitive biases
>kotaku is every other opinion except your own
Shut up you stupid faggot.

I didn't mention kotakeashit, pal. I'm talking in general.

No, seriously, go fuck yourself.

Eh, I use r/games too. User opinions are garbage there but it's a good aggregator

How'd she lose her job?

If that exact image were posted in a filename thread I guarantee 100% of Sup Forums would have no problem with it whatsoever. How is this any different? Just because of the format (it being its own post on a site instead of a reply to a thread)?

I'd love to live in a world without Kotaku, Polygon and all of those nu-journalist sites

Almost no difference between the two.
The reason traditional gaming outlets are shitting themselves over Youtube is because almost anyone with a camera, editing software and decent speaking/writing skills can produce content of at least the same quality as the gaming sites. The only thing that separates them from Youtubers is connections to the industry, and even that's starting to go out the window as the big publishers offer preview codes and builds to certain larger channels.

> Traditional gaming news
> news
> gaming
> Kotaku

>Jim Sterling
anyone that pays attention to him deserves being shit on

>kotaku
>traditional

stop being so edgy pedro

>Traditional gaming news websites
>Kotaku

it's just a shitty blog. And it's dying because it's just a shitty blog. Good riddance.

She will be in great company. Great minds think alike.

pretty much. If you never read comments reddit is ok for aggregation. I mean what the fuck else am I going to use?

now if only the hellish cabal that is late night talk shows could be replaced as well.

I want variety shows back and shit tier political punditry disguised in awful jokes gone

Fuck Gawker, if you read that SJW blog site kill yourself

>IGN
>Kotaku

Literally the cancer infesting the video game journalist's colon.

...

Because we aren't paid to shitpost. They are paid for journalism, and instead just put out absolute bullshit, and are surprised when they are losing clicks nonstop

Gawker doesn't own them anymore.
Gawker isn't even a fully functioning website. It's just an archive with its last article from August.

isn't IGN ok? I've not been there in years but it seemed like they dodged the politically-infested cancer that so many others fell prey to

>Journalism
Not to sound too nitpicky but almost nothing these sites do is journalism. They take what are basically press release statements and announcements from publishers and regurgitate them for the common crowd.
It's part of the reason E3 is dying. Why try to impress these idiots when in the internet age you can just make your own private show and livestream it so everyone watches and gets the news directly from you?

fat

Good
Sterling is about to get a stroke and Totalbiscuit has cancer, better find new replacements

They still push for "le female lead is so progressive, it's the current year!" and "transgender esport kid was BULLIED by someone online, made him cry, let's start a go fund him!!" type bullshit

they still hate white males, they still shill trans, gay, female shit at every corner

>Totalbiscuit
>Trustworthy
Reminder that
>TB makes a WTF is Titanfall 2 video
>Clearly has no fucking clue of what he's talking about
>Gets many facts wrong and acts like his opinions are fact
>Said that the game isn't different than Titanfall 1 when it largely is
>Says that the campaign was a waste of resources
>Says that wall-running is useless
>Said that the game was too easy but had to put it from Hard to Normal because he kept getting killed
>Said it takes about 10 hours to get to level 10 in the multiplayer
>All the while demonstrating how shit he is at the game

>Video goes up
>Proceeds to get called out for his bullshit
>Gets so fucking BTFO'd that he has to backpedal and make a response video
>The entire time he's basically saying that he's right and everyone else is wrong
>Cherry-picks comments to try and make his argument better
>Backpedals so hard that he tries to say that his previous video wasn't a review
TB acts like some kind of video game connoisseur, but in reality he's just a casual fucking shitter.
He also did the exact same thing with Dark Souls, which is ironic because he was the main push to get the game on PC.

>Kotaku and ign are dying

Good. They deserve death and I hope it hurts as much as possible.

Random jewtubers are a much better replacement because at least those fuckers have some appreciation of gamers.

once bryan altano max scofield, and damon hatfield leave IGN that site is done. I thought it might even have died when the Kinda Funny guys left, but it's hanging by a thread.

but his youtube videos are great

What annoys me the most about TB and Sterling is their desperation to hide from the 'review' label when they get called out on clearly knowing fuckall what they are talking about.
>Oh no, it's not a review
>It's just a 'first impressions' video that can potentially sway the opinion of thousands of my blind followers, therefore it's okay if I don't give a game a proper representation.

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned how late night TV is political punditry masquerading as shitty humour, it's the exact same shit.

No they're not. They sometimes have good points, but they're held back by the fact that Jim is in them and he's both annoying to listen to and annoying to watch.

>>It's just a 'first impressions' video that can potentially sway the opinion of thousands of my blind followers, therefore it's okay if I don't give a game a proper representation.
Literally what TB said in his awful damage control video.
He then went on to saying something along the lines of "If you base your opinion on whether or not you're going to buy a game or not on someones opinion, you're an idiot."
He's so fucking full of himself, and I really can't stand those types of people. He drags out everything he talks about to try and sound smart, but he just loves the sound of his own voice.

As awful as e-celeb videos are, Kotaku is even worse. You should know this. Good riddance.

IGN is still doing well and is probably the most reputable and reliable news source that isn't just a rumor mill.

The biggest problem with gaming news is the flood of clickbait and fake news sites. Google news search is a hopeless swamp of garbage.

I like to watch him play shitty asset flips but skip the videos where he plays good games because he's so bad at aiming it's unpleasant to watch

>Not getting your gaming news from your local newspaper
>Not forming your own opinions on what games you like or want to play

Remember when you were a kid and you got what you wanted and not what other people told you to get?

Not OP, but my parents bought me ton of shit games. Emphasis on "shit", especially when it came to xbox games. Having a source of some info on what's actually "good" might help when preserving money.

Jim Sterling and Totalbiscuit have actual journalistic integrity. Totalbiscuit lives off of ad revenue while Jim lives off Patreon. They are beholden to their audience and nobody else.

Yeah, if only they weren't such massive faggots

I still check PC gamer from time to time but that's it

I used to buy EGM every single month for years when I was a kid (2002-2007ish), I wonder if any magazines are that good these days. I imagine physical magazines struggle to compete with gaming websites and youtube now.

Like you?

no u
In all seriousness are you actually trying to defend your favorite e-celebs

I understand why they're dying but I don't undersand how those two fat fucks are taking their place.

They both have horrendous taste. Everyone talks about how IGN will inflate their scores for Call of Duty or Ubisoft shit yet Jim Sterling gives Watch Dogs 2 and Battlefield 1 a 9/10 and Dead Rising 4 an 8/10

FUCKING DEAD RISING 4

He then complained that Gravity Rush 2 was not as good as the first one and that the graphics weren't very good.

The graphics are fucking lovely on GR2, it has such a pleasant artstyle that you can't really do anything to improve. Not to mention that the mechanics are improved in literally every way from the first one since it wasn't made for a handheld.

As for Totalasscancer he is LE REDDIT CONTRARIAN of videogame reviewers.

I literally have more respect for PewDiePie's opinion

tl;dr Kotaku and IGN deserve to die, so do the other two

Little bit late to be stating the obvious.

Sorry that someone had a different opinion to you guy

>Kotaku
>Traditional gaming news

>opinions from jim sterling
99% of his videos are about fucking shit games, why bother watching his shit

Sup Forums is always full of eceleb drama bullshit.

Yeah, the hundreds of fat fucks getting triggered and crying to a reviewer was really a win for the TF community

>Plus his show is entertaining
you managed to entertain me more than the entirety of his shitshow with that line alone. Thanks for the keks

I wouldn't miss them

After God Hand and Sjws they can take a fuckin hike

Jesus Christ

I remember when everyone was saying that IGN and GameSpot were killing magazines like EGM and Nintendo Power.

Same shit, different decade I guess.

but user, a person can't be right every time. Sterling tried to defend battleborn , which kind of triggered me, but that didn't stop me from enjoying his videos. There's entertainment value that I cannot get from elsewhere.

I don't even like games any more. I just get my news from the brotherman pill

not same user, but you're coming off kinda edgy with lines like that. You do realize different people have different taste and opinion? Why does one have to be better than the other?

>reading game news

Why

>Jim Sterling
>Real Game Journalism

This place has truly become tumblr

>being sad that kotaku is dying

lmao get out

According to this website 5% of the Sup Forums visitors come from reddit and the most popular keyword is fa.

Jim is honest about his own, manipulation-free opinion. So is Totalbiscuit.

There will come other critics who's tastes align with yours, it's Jim and TB paving the way for that.

Or just be a critic yourself.