Aftermath

2 days ago | aftermath.site | Nathan Grayson

Summer Geoff Fest is less than a month away, and you know what that means: It is once again time to turn our attention to summergamesfest.com, a URL of a common typo – the event is for some reason called Summer Game Fest, not Summer Games Fest – with a mysterious owner and a half-decade-long history of activism and cheese puffs. This year, it’s looking a little different than last year.

3 days ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

I feel like I've written this like four times already, but I just realised those blogs were for a different website, so I'm just going to say it one more time so I can be on record for this website: stop closing forums and moving people to Discord, they are not the same thing. They're not even close! A forum is an everlasting repository of knowledge, a place where questions can be asked and their answers enshrined forever, the solutions to someone's problem just a google search away.

5 days ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

Just over a week after being "blow up" by owners Fandom, a very exciting press release has hit our inboxes this evening: the site/podcast has been sold to the people who make it. "Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb, and it would not have been possible without the speedy efforts of Fandom and our mutual agreement on what’s best for fans and creators", a joint statement issued by new owners Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb says.

6 days ago | aftermath.site | Gita Jackson

K-pop group KATSEYE dropped their new single “Gnarly” at the end of April, ushering in an edgy new era for the group. I think the song is a full on bop—but k-pop fans hate it. KATSEYE is called a “global” k-pop group, based in Los Angeles and managed through a partnership with Korean label HYBE and the American Geffen Records. This allows for some welcome differences from how Korean groups are managed, in that the group’s members have a smidge more freedom in their personal lives.

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

When you write about games for a living, you rarely just sit down and write about a whole damn game. Even reviews, which some people think should be that, are hopefully something more focused and nuanced. Impressions of a game tend to involve the writer choosing a hook, an angle, something to peg their thoughts on before expanding on them over the course of an article.