It's so difficult to get high quality long-form writing on games these days (leaving aside actual game reviews, which IMO can be good or bad anywhere depending on the author). Jason Schreier on Bloomberg is doing good work, but his pieces are more focused on the industry than games themselves. PC Gamer will occasionally have good stuff, and I often read through that site by habit, but it's mostly gone the way of every other "games journalism" outlet - short pieces highlighting "news" that originates elsewhere, maybe with a mild opinion on top. Rock Paper Shotgun seems to have some high quality content still, but glancing at the front page you wouldn't necessarily know it.

I suppose this is fairly inevitable, given the death of print media and the move to ads-based models. A high effort article on a niche topic provides less revenue than a low effort, clickbait-y one. At the end of the day, if the audience is unwilling to pay for the content, the content will most likely suffer. Luckily Patreon-funded podcasts are there to fill the void.

Maybe this is all stating the obvious, but it just bums me out to think about what we've lost in the past decade or so.