IGN reviewer copies Boomstick Gaming's Dead Cells review

[OdinHades]

KLAMarine said:

OdinHades said:

It is, but the payment is usually pretty shitty. It's hard to achieve a decent income just by reviewing games and writing news about them and stuff. You will normally want to also write about other stuff. Personally I also write about the stock market and that's getting paid about 7 times (!) higher than my articles about gaming. The only reason why I even bother to write about gaming anymore is because of my personal passion for it, lol.

Are you paid by the article?

Yes, I'm a freelancer. I'm getting paid by the word to be exact.

Of course I wouldn't know how much someone at IGN earns. But I doubt it's too much. I had an internship at a german magazine (Gamestar) some years ago and the people there really didn't earn that much. I doubt it's different in the US or wherever. At the end of the day, gaming media is a pretty small niche, so there's not too much money to be made, I'm afraid. It's still fun though and money isn't everything, so don't get me wrong here.