An Incomplete Catalogue of Games Media in 2026
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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 to!
Caveats aside, there’s a mountain of incredible stuff here! And it’s wonderfully overwhelming to see so much talent in a single space!
As for the lecture, the folks at NYU Game Center were kind enough to let me run the talk in full on Post Games. It will appear on the Post Games Patreon this Friday, along with a Patreon-exclusive Q&A segment that was recorded at the Game Center following the lecture. And the lecture will be available on Monday on the free feed for everybody to hear.
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