When was it ever good? I have stacks of Playstation Magazines which I mostly got for the Demo discs but still a load of their headlines on the covers are just the same clickbait shite, except instead of it being a title so bad to get a click it's a title so bad to try to get someone to pick up a £10 magazine and buy it. CVG was the same, they would plaster any half a story on their cover to try to sell that magazine.



Word exclusive is on there more times than the 2018 MS E3 conference. "exclusive reviews" I mean.... of course the review that they write is going to be exclusive to that magazine lol

lol found a better old one



The statements on the left hand side....
a car game "WILL THIS BE THE XMAS NUMBER 1"
a different car game "IS THIS THE BEST RACER EVER?!!"

I mean... both of those statements can't be true, to put them side by side like that is a fairly bad editors choice, along with being allll click bait because both games were probably dogshit.

Also holy hell... how did I miss the Atari Lynx in the corner being referred to as Amazing.... wow, Games Journalism, if that came out today it would be flamed on twitter until the company folded.

Never really paid attention to it so don't know what it was versus what it is now...

Britain truly is the birthplace of tabloid journalism. 

PSM U.S. was ran by the same company that ran EGM.

PSM U.K. was a completely different magazine and it was run by the same company that runs PC Gamer. 

Then there's Edge Magazine, which is a current rag.

I think the vast majority of games journalism has always been shitty, if you look at it as hard journalism. Tons of puff pieces, super softball interviews, and just general editorializing passed off as hard news. I was a big reader of gaming mags in my youth in the 80s and 90s, and I recognized it even as a kid.

Also, just because it was a slow news day, they decide to act on the area 51 meme and roll with it: https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-how-storming-area-51-will-go-as-predicted-by-video-games/

I'm all for funny memes, but that's not really the place for PCG, especially since they block/ban their comment sections, whenever they post an article that involves pol talks. 

Just like with RDR2 articles, PCgamer is talking about how another console series would be "great for PC".

Slow news day for them again.

https://www.pcgamer.com/fire-emblem-would-be-a-great-pc-series/?utm_content=buffer2a038&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

I still check Eurogamer daily yet there hardly ever seems to be any reviews anymore.
Last review, July 25th Fire enblem.
Before that, July 23rd of a graphics card.
Before that, July 19th another gpu review.
Are there no games coming out anymore?

Yep. They are just trash. When's the last time you saw Nintendolife or PushSquare put up a post like "If only Halo was on Switch/PS4!"? Then they spam their site with all the Fortnite crap you can imagine. "The Best Headset for Fortnite!" "Fortnite Season 10 details." "Fortnite championships!" Really? Between that and their constant defense of the EGS, it's obvious that they take money from Epic at this point. 

The only good thing about PCG is that their reviews are actually pretty good. If you can find them beneath the heaps of garbage clickbait articles that is. 

Edit: BTW been enjoying DSOG. Their comments section is wild, but otherwise they are pretty good. 

Journalism in a whole isn't as it was before.
The need to be the first to give the new on social media time, lack of checking and agenda pushing destroyed it.