Videogame Journalism Part 2: Elegic Boogaloo with Mike Drucker

Nerd of Mouth

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Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Video game magazines came and then the internet delivered a killshot and dropped a giant bomb on video game journalism. Holden walks us through the journey of how it all started pure before the corporate overlords did the thing they do of taking over and firing lots of decent people, and where that leaves us now. Guest Mike Drucker (Author of Good Game, No Rematch) joins with his own personal perspective on all of it. If you were wondering when we’d get to the interoffice politics of Kotaku.com, you’ll love this episode. Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Nerd of mouth.
0:18.3	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the sister episode from our video game magazine's episode here on Nerd of Mouth.
0:27.8	I've got a, the hit squad, we call them these days, of video game and other things, all things nerd podcast content.
0:37.5	We've got Jake Young.
0:38.9	It's great to be here.
0:41.2	Imagine games,
0:42.5	but a network.
0:43.8	Mike Lawrence,
0:44.4	how many times
0:44.9	you get your dick suck this week?
0:49.0	I'm sorry.
0:49.7	I just like throwing him off
0:50.8	as hard as I fucking possibly can't.
0:52.9	As soft as you possibly can.
0:56.9	None so far this week. And now I'm thinking about what am I doing wrong? Right, right. I'd be, same here.
1:02.6	Same here. I think it's the cologne I'm using currently. And also, as a special guest, we're very happy to have Mike Drucker here, author of Good Game, no rematch, among many other things. This guy's out here. He's scrapping, he's scraping, he's getting everything done. Mike, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me, and Dick sucked maybe two or three times this week. There we go.
1:28.2	That's what's tough.
1:29.8	I already knew.
1:31.6	And I want to say I suggested my three really sold it.
1:37.4	I suggested Mike for this episode.
1:40.4	I know there are going to be people in the comments of like, oh, a third Mike does work.
1:44.9	A third podcast name Mike, third podcast host name Mike does work on this show.
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