In seventh grade, my friends and I would all congregate around one or two computers in the school library and fawn over whatever games were coming out next. This could have been GameSpot, GameTrailers, or another website I don’t remember, but they served a really important purpose: a social gathering place for like-minded people to enthuse about video games.
Trailers don’t need to be written about. They’re on YouTube, X, Facebook, Instagram and those are the appropriate places for trailers to be shared and seen, but now we are inundated on things that we can already find on our own.
I don’t think there is a central location to find video game trailers anymore and gaming news sucks now. It’s either a guide, a trailer, a quote from a developer, or a fun fact about a game.
Tomorrow some guy is going to beat Elden Ring with a recorder that he made out of a piece of celery and nearly every outlet is going to write about it except for PCGamesN because PCGamesN sucks.