What year would you say game journalism truly died?

>as if it ever was alive
Old man reminder that C64 gaming mag nerds got free flight/tickets to conventions and release parties even way back in the 80s.
Lots of their 'journalists' later started working for publishers or big name companies like Microsoft.

it was going downhill earlier but 2007 marks the point of no return

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Is this implying that Yahtzee was the death of video game journalism?
Yahtzee, who was Zig Forums's boi, in their corner, for as long as I have ever heard him mentioned?
Of course that stopped some years ago. Whatever happened to him? Did Zig Forums decide to hate what it used to love again?

It never started.

2010
I've missed PC Zone so fucking much

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He's just kind of lame now, attached to a husk of a site making the same videos over and over again.

2006 - 2007. This is when Game publishers started paying big money for website ads that are essentially bribes to review sites.

To be fair if you really cared about vidya you would rather Yahtzee stuck at making games instead of making fast internet talking his day job.

>What year would you say game journalism truly died?
When print mags died, around 2005~

Prior to then games journalists would typically have a month or more to play a game, collect their thoughts, write a review (multiple reviews obviously, but they were given time to gestate), put together other opinion pieces, research etc and the strength of the writing and articles is what kept them in business.

Now the business is entirely about clickbait, shitting out articles as quickly as possible and effectively acting as an extended branch of marketing for the publishers.

I actually like the look of some the games he made. Sucks they never really took off.

Yahtzee is an entertainer, not a games journalist.

games journalism has always been completely shit and exactly as shit as it is now, the only difference is people are becoming more aware of it (but not enough casual normalfags, they will never care)

It was 2003, literally January 1st 2003.

Yahtzee has always been shitty GAYMES ARE ART fag, that loves walking simulators

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We've been in a depression since 2007, everything died there

It was burger and fries reaching out to the /r/games moderator and having him nuke the totalbiscuit thread. Literally all down to a woman not being able to keep her legs closed and white knight faggots bending over for her.

Around the time Ryan Davis died

gamergate was ots final nail in the coffin and most people think it was about something else.

I've noticed a sharp nosedive since 2014~2015. It may have been bad before, I wasn't really paying attention. But GG was the watershed moment where journos stopped even trying to pretend they know jack shit

>most people think it was about something else.
The only people who think it was about something are just trying to protect the system that helps them.

reading the wikipedia page is painful

From what ive seen it was never good even back it was just magazines they where getting stuff pretty wrong

>From what ive seen it was never good even back it was just magazines

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Oh shit I haven't seen this picture in ages

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Exactly. All you need to do is go download some PDFs of old gaming mags to realise that they have never EVER done their jobs correctly. Pages and pages of misinformation about upcoming things, stupid opinion pieces masquerading as reviews, and pure unadulterated outright shilling for money. Hell, people blame IGN for the "9/10 it's alright" review scale, but it was the 90s game mags that started the 60% and above ratings to keep publishers sweet.
The only thing that was good about it was the blissful ignorance. You probably didn't have access to 5 other sources and even if you did, you have other things to do than compare and contrast viewpoints so your mag was "truth" and you didn't pointlessly wear yourself out reconciling all the bullshit and arguing about it on weeaboo image boards.

based Turrican fan

I remember that too but there is no fucking picture of that that I can find, only the shitty “I never played a game before” version

On August 28, 2014.

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Based.

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His books haven't been half bad.

It was never good
any kind of media "journalism" will forever be made by people who couldn't cut it in real stuff like crime, economics, culture, travel etc etc

Movie journalists (except like 2 and one of them is dead) are also just as shit
Same for music.

Always been shit. Used to be less shit when it was more lighthearted.

Games Journalism is still alive.

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>the final edition has to waste coverage on some shitty batman game

I was there when the Gamergate shitstorm hit. By that time game journalism was already dead and buried, GG only brought the realization.

it was always pretty shit but around 2007 to 2008 was when things started really getting fucky.