We are all going to die before we clear our backlogs. Life is too short to spend on games made under abuse. It’s too short to criticize Ubisoft’s workplace and then devout a week of coverage to each of their games. There is so little we can control under capitalism, but what we can do is decide what media we spend our time with.
Read MoreGames media as it exists today is entirely incapable of healing itself. It exists as a half dozen atomized outlets, each an appendage to a larger media company, reliant on platforms and technologies far outside their control. Games media is in an eternal suspended animation, its budget always getting cut, staff perpetually in line for the chopping block, access and resources held over writers by studios and media empires. It is capitalism in microcosm. The holes will never be patched, the sense of impending doom is baked into the fabric that holds these outlets (momentarily) together.
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