More on topic for this thread though. I've witnessed a website that was once a shining light in the dark ocean that is gaming journalism fade away over the years. That website is Joystiq. It use to be an extremely good gaming journalism website that only reported on games and the gaming industry with little to no bias with their "just the facts" policy that applied to their news reports. It also had nice original content where some of the journalists would invite friends they had from within the industry and outside of it (my favorite being Law of Game in which one of the journalists had a lawyer friend that discussed the laws that pertain to games and how they affect the industry. The Law of Game segments during the whole ESA v Brown case in which video games because protected free speach was produced a lot of good and interesting editorials). That and they were firmly against giving games scores since they believed that scores only detract from the overall review and that if you really want to get a feel for the game you need to read the entire reveal. These reviews weren't always the best as the people who worked there were a bit on the casual side so our opinions and thoughts didn't always match up, however I did respect them as I knew that they were the reviewers honest and uninfluenced opinions due to the fact that they always gave away those sweet publisher swag packages that are sent to reviewers instead of keeping them. They didn't want publisher gifts to influence their decisions for they sent them out of the office almost as quickly as they got them in.


However Joystiq ended up going under a restructuring in which most of their old staff were laid off and replaced with a bunch of shit tier click bait journalists with SJW backgrounds and diversity hires. The place has gone to complete shit. News articles are loaded with sensationalist click bait titles, some of the "journalists" have easily spotted biases towards certain platforms, they're starting to post things that have absolutely nothing to do with video games, all of those publisher gift packages are kept by the reviewers, and all of their original content is now gone. Some of the new "journalists" are downright terrible  *cough* Jessica Conditt is complete shit *cough* and have absolutely no business writing for anything as they are Kotaku tier bad.