Fandom Now Owns GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, and Metacritic

Game and pop culture wiki service platform Fandom has just made a substantial amount of purchases. Fandom now owns a number of major video game news publications and one major aggregate site: GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, and Metacritic. A press release to commemorate this event also stated that Fandom has bought other Red Ventures properties ...

Bayonetta 3 Is “Progressing Well” Says Nintendo

The Nintendo E3 2021 presentation was great and all, but it was lacking a few key announcements for some. One of them is an update on Bayonetta 3, the sequel to the PlatinumGames action series that was announced a few years ago. Breaking the silence is Nintendo of America, who told GameSpot in a video interview that the game is still in developm...

Major US Gaming Sites Take Down Their Pro-Palestine Articles [Updated]

Update (11:30am GMT+8 on 18 May 2021): Earlier today, a joint collective of IGN employees have released a statement aimed at “management of J2 global and Ziff Davis, and the corporate leadership of IGN”. This lengthy statement was then shared on social media by dozens of IGN employees. The newly-released statement calls out manage...

Gamespot Hit By Layoffs

Many employees of games website Gamespot have been laid off. These include the following: https://twitter.com/thewillennium/status/1314259888709615616 https://twitter.com/itsashleyoh/status/1314282289992536064 https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1314334537309024256 https://twitter.com/JessMcDonell/status/1314333647697137664 ...