Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay
gamesindustry.biz
More concerning than Bethesda's decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.
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This article made a damn good point about how much gaming websites depend on guides now. It hasn’t really clicked until now with me. I follow a bot on Mastodon that posts new articles from a bunch of different gaming sites, and it seems like half of them are for guides and walkthroughs. That’s where they get their ad bucks from, so that and SEO are the big focus.
When I look up guides, I'm now spammed with game8 and screenrant links. I'm pretty sure they're just AI generated too.