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Welcome to Aftermath, a news platform owned by its employees and supported by its readers. We focus on video games, the internet, and the cultures intertwined with them. Many of our team members previously worked at Kotaku, where we reported on breaking news, covered major events, and conducted in-depth investigations. You may also recognize us from our time at Motherboard by Vice and the games section of The Washington Post, known as Launcher. We reunited to create this site not only to blog together once more but also to explore new possibilities for ourselves and the field of games journalism.

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Assassin’s Creed, I’m Begging You, Please Just End Like A Normal Video Game

1 day ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

A few weeks back I wrote some very positive things about Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and so it should be of little surprise given the series’ contentious, recent past that I have since found that I am an idiot, and now have to write some less positive things as well. Why am I an idiot? Because I should have seen this coming.
You Don’t Need To Buy The Oblivion Remaster

2 days ago | aftermath.site | Nathan Grayson

In a move equal parts surprising and totally expected (for literal years), Microsoft shadow-dropped its not-so-secret The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster today. Cool, great. Also, it does not need to exist, and you do not need to buy it.
Fine, I’ll Play Star Wars XCOM

3 days ago | aftermath.site | Nathan Grayson

Like many of you, I was raised on Star Wars. I was obsessed with the original trilogy, I collected the action figures, and I desperately tried to convince myself that the prequels had any redeeming qualities. Then I became an adult and realized I was categorically Over It. Disney’s bland-as-butterless-toast spin on the galaxy far, far away hasn’t helped matters.
Mel And Langdon Won't Get Together On The Pitt—Except In Fanfiction - Aftermath

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Gita Jackson

The Pitt is a masterpiece of television, and I’ve been enraptured by it all season. It’s a medical drama with the structure of 24, where each episode takes place over the course of one hour in an emergency room in Pittsburgh, often ending on a twist or a cliffhanger. One thing the show pointedly doesn’t have is romance. The fandom is making up for that in spades, even if the biggest ship so far is definitely not going to happen on screen.
Gamurs Websites Aren't Just Laying Off Workers, Entire Sites Are Being Mothballed

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

The Gamurs group of video game websites, a one-time media darling, have for the past year been struggling following changes made by Google's search algorithm that have had a dramatic impact on the network's SEO-optimised content. Over the last two months, both current and former Gamurs employees tell us things have only gotten worse.
Video Game Blogs From The 2000s Were Fast, Reckless And Very Bad At News

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

Some people looooooooove to talk shit about Kotaku, a publication that all of us here at Aftermath used to work at. Over the last 20+ years the site has been at the vanguard of changing tastes and practices in video games journalism, which means that while it has done (and continues to do!) some amazing work, it has also made its fair share of mistakes and missteps along the way. That's what happens when you're always trying to do something new.
The Price Of The PS5 Is Going Up, Once Again, In Europe And Australia

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

There used to be a decades-old rule that, the longer a console was on sale, the cheaper it would get. That rule is now clearly dead in the water. Sony's PlayStation 5 launched in Australia for AUD$750 (for the disc drive version) back in 2020. That was a lot of money at the time, but it was a new console, whatever, lots of folks probably figured if they waited a few years they'd be able to snag one for less.
The Aftermath Hours Inside Baseball Week Worker-Owned Media Roundtable Special

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Nathan Grayson

It wouldn’t be Inside Baseball Week without a whole lot of navel gazing, but we cannot, in good conscience, keep this golden opportunity to self-importantly bloviate to ourselves. That’s why, this time around, we brought friends. On the latest, very special episode of Aftermath Hours, we discuss the good, the bad, and the unprecedented of worker-owned media with pals from Defector, 404 Media, and Hell Gate.
Because Some People Have Asked, Here Are Aftermath's Editorial Values

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

Hi, it's still Inside Baseball Week here at Aftermath, and because there is nothing more inside baseball than a website posting about its own editorial values in a standalone blog, we're going to do just that. You might be reading this wondering what the fuck "editorial values" even are.
Making Sure Games Can Pass Age Ratings Around The World Is A Very Niche But Also Very Important Job

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

Welcome to another instalment of What I Do, a regular Aftermath feature that takes a single person doing a single job in the video game industry and explains just what, exactly, that job involves.