Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.


Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them.

You might remember most of us from Kotaku, where we broke news, covered events, and brought you hard-hitting investigations. You might also have seen us at Motherboard by Vice, The Verge and The Washington Post’s games vertical Launcher. We got back together to start this site not just so we could all blog together again, but to try something new for ourselves and for games journalism. 

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What we’re looking for: Aftermath is committed to using our position as an independent, worker-owned outlet to tell the kinds of stories other outlets can’t. Free from the pressures of SEO, traffic, and the latest big game, we want stories that highlight important, under-explored facets of gaming and technology, as well as stories that hold powerful figures to account. We like stories that are focused on people rather than products, whether that’s developers and game workers, players, online and fan communities, or journalists.<div><br></div><div>We’re especially interested in investigative or reported stories and stories that include the voices of players, workers, and community members. Games journalism has less and less room for investigative reporting these days, and we’re happy to carry that mantle as much as we can within our means.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re also interested in essays that connect games, technology, and the internet to politics, current events, cultural trends, and other areas. We’re open to experimental formats that tell stories in ways beyond text.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re generally not looking for game or hardware reviews, lists, guides, or service posts unless you have some particularly unique expertise to share.</div><div><br></div><div>On occasion, we publish book excerpts; these have generally been with publishers with whom we have a relationship. If you’re interested in pitching a book excerpt, please write “book excerpt” in your subject line and we can discuss your situation further.</div><div><br></div><div>We do not accept stories written with AI or that use AI-generated imagery, unless these make up a small portion of the work as necessary to report on an AI product’s use or function as required for your story.</div>

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