[12_throw_away]

TBH, I think the problem is not a lack of people like this, but that there's no oxygen for them anymore. Tech/gaming journalism is on life support (at best). All the remaining platforms are huge and corporate. Big tech is laying everyone off ... The current ecosystem doesn't really reward passion and competence anymore.

[lupusreal]

Traditional gaming journalism as once existed with magazines and later websites modeled after those magazines is wholly obsolete. For game discovery, reviews, and game tricks and tips, it has been replaced by independent youtubers and streamers. We're all much better off for this too, the new system gives much wider and deeper coverage to much more obscure games than the magazines ever could or would. Just as one example, Master Hellish creates an absolute ton of OpenTTD tutorials and showcase videos. The most the old games journalism industry would ever make for a game like that is one or two articles highlighting it as an obscure novelty, but never going I'm depth with the game mechanics.

[lyu07282]

Or Mortismal Gaming who only covers CRPGs with more depth and passion than any legacy gaming journo.