{"id":15067,"date":"2024-07-09T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/09\/game-over-for-kotaku-lifehacker-and-gizmodo-is-this-truly-the-end-of-australian-gaming-journalism-jackson-ryan\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:38:36","slug":"game-over-for-kotaku-lifehacker-and-gizmodo-is-this-truly-the-end-of-australian-gaming-journalism-jackson-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/09\/game-over-for-kotaku-lifehacker-and-gizmodo-is-this-truly-the-end-of-australian-gaming-journalism-jackson-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Game over for Kotaku, Lifehacker and Gizmodo. Is this truly the end of Australian gaming journalism? | Jackson Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The three brands licensed by Nine\u2019s Pedestrian Group that kickstarted my career might be gone but as long as there\u2019s appetite for video game content there\u2019s hope<\/p>\n

In 2006 I was fired from my job at EB Games. It was, with the benefit of hindsight, a well-earned dismissal. One Sunday I\u2019d set up a camera and filmed myself jumping over a stack of boxes and hip thrusting at a stranger. Then I uploaded that highly pixelated video of an emo-fringed teenager in a black shirt and slacks to YouTube. Ah, the innocence of youth.<\/p>\n

My area manager saw the video about eight months later. I was fired on the spot. (Today, of course, this would probably be some sort of TikTok trend.)<\/p>\n

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\nThe three brands licensed by Nine\u2019s Pedestrian Group that kickstarted my career might be gone but as long as there\u2019s appetite for video game content there\u2019s hope
\nIn 2006 I was fired from my job at EB Games. It was, with the benefit of hindsight, a well-earned dismissal. One Sunday I\u2019d set up a camera and filmed myself jumping over a stack of boxes and hip thrusting at a stranger. Then I uploaded that highly pixelated video of an emo-fringed teenager in a black shirt and slacks to YouTube. Ah, the innocence of youth.
\nMy area manager saw the video about eight months later. I was fired on the spot. (Today, of course, this would probably be some sort of TikTok trend.) Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The three brands licensed by Nine\u2019s Pedestrian Group that kickstarted my career might be gone but as long as there\u2019s appetite for video game content there\u2019s hope In 2006 I was fired from my job at EB Games. It was, with the benefit of hindsight, a well-earned dismissal. One Sunday I\u2019d set up a camera …<\/p>\n

Game over for Kotaku, Lifehacker and Gizmodo. Is this truly the end of Australian gaming journalism? | Jackson Ryan<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}