153. Games Journalism is Very, Very Broken

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Alanah Pearce

Troybaker, Videogames, Video Games, Leisure, Mikebithell, Games, Austinwintory, Alanahpearce

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This episode features journalist Nathan Grayson chatting to Mike and Alanah about the state of games journalism (and that side of the industry) in 2024. This comes after IGN announced multiple aquisitions.

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0:00.0	Playwatch Listen is a mostly games industry podcast featuring mostly game developers, and it is funded entirely by supporters on Patreon.
0:05.8	Hello everyone. Welcome to Playwatch Listen. I'm a lot of here. I'm a video game writer. That's my Bithel. He, the video game director.
0:10.7	Today we are joined by Nathan Grayson, who is a video game journalist. I don't know how you people is an amazing start. I called, I went on the Friends Per Second podcast recently and I said, you're all games
0:23.9	journalists.
0:24.5	And they went, well, so I go.
0:27.9	Why did they dispute that?
0:29.7	I guess because it's not their job titles.
0:32.6	So Lucy James is a senior video producer, Ralph Skillup.
0:40.3	I don't know what he said his title was, but I guess he would be a YouTuber.
0:44.0	Different distinctions.
0:45.3	So, Nathan, I don't.
0:46.5	No, I get that.
0:47.4	That's what I would call you.
0:48.4	Yeah, I'm definitely a journalist.
0:50.5	I'm not cut out for the world of YouTube or anything like that.
0:53.7	I just, you know, sporadically streamed because you have to do that now.
0:58.1	That's true.
0:58.5	Or else, you know, you just get lost in the rush of the internet.
1:01.5	Well, thank you for joining us here today on the video format.
1:04.0	We really appreciate that.
1:05.5	Yeah, of course.
1:07.1	We wanted to chat to you today in no small part because there have been layoffs across the games journals and space.
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