Looking To Follow Some Video Games Media? Here’s A Hell of A Starter Kit

Post Games: Last Thursday, I spoke at NYU Game Center about the future of games journalism and how 50 years of history can tell us which ongoing trends should terrify us and which should give us hope. One trend that’s an Unqualified Good is the current abundance of games media. Each publication in the image above is unique. And the slide represents a modest portion of the hundreds, if not thousands, of people using text, audio, and video to report, analyze, critique, contextualize, and archive the medium.The image makes a bold first impression, but it’s not a particularly useful curation tool. So, I’ve assembled “An Incomplete Catalogue of Games Media in 2026.”To start, this spreadsheet doesn’t include everything. How could it? For example, I didn’t attempt to catalogue Twitch streamers, and I only included a corner of YouTube. The list is focused on English-speaking publications, mostly from the United States. If folks want to build on it with their own forks, they’re totally welcome…