"Whether you're reading about the impending AI bubble bursting or about the video game industry's mass layoffs and cancelled projects, 2026 does not feel like a hopeful time for gaming. What's more, games journalists as well as all other kinds of journalists have been losing their jobs at alarming rates, making it difficult to adequately cover these crises. Donald Trump's White House, meanwhile, is using video game memes as ICE recruitment tools, and game studios are backing away"
"Mothership will focus on reporting on the good and bad of modern-day game-making alongside investigations, reviews, criticism, and historical deep dives into games and developers who paved the way to now. It will be a website for people who read the news with dread, including gaming news, and worry that Gamergaters got what they always wanted. And it will be a place for readers who wish there was something like a Teen Vogue, but for games (and without a corporate owner to kneecap it)."
The gaming landscape in 2026 faces AI concerns, widespread layoffs, cancelled projects, and shrinking journalistic capacity that hinder crisis coverage. Political forces are weaponizing game culture, studios are retreating from diversity and inclusion, and mainstream feminist outlets have vanished amid a resurgent manosphere and backlash against progressive values. In response, an independent, worker-owned, subscriber-supported publication called Mothership will provide gender- and identity-focused reporting, investigations, reviews, criticism, and historical deep dives into games and developers. Mothership aims to serve readers seeking thoughtful, accountable coverage and to celebrate the increased presence of female, non-binary, and queer characters in modern games.
#gaming-journalism #diversity-and-inclusion #independent-media #queer-representation #industry-layoffs
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]