Gaming journalism as a whole is dead. In a lot of ways the advent of social media and YouTube has somewhat killed it, because in part as a medium it hasn't had the time to evolve and develop to create critics in the same manner that there are movie critics and literary critics. The idea of the reviewer, as a whole, is something that can be done by everyone, and now is done by everyone since it's that easy and because a ton of gamers who game as a hobby are also technologically proficient, usually more so than professional 'reviewers'. They're irrelevant.

In a lot of ways, that's why we're seeing them hitch their horse to politics, especially identity politics. Its the only way that they have any real means of remaining relevant. They're essentially outsiders to the actual 'insider' group of those who play video games, but they can still score points with those who are casual to the hobby by appealing to the general political consensus of the public at the time. I don't really trust most review sites any more when I can get a better idea of what a fucking game is like by going to YouTube or gaming forums.

Kudos on the Creepshow shirt too, that is good shit. The Crate is one of the best horror movie anthology bits ever made.