Alt Text: Give Gamers the Ignorance They Crave

Kotaku recently launched Kotaku Core, a sort of newsfeed subsite that strips out all the stories about pointless topics like videogame politics, videogame culture, sexism in videogames and the tendency of videogame fanatics to avoid thinking about anything outside their tiny little world of achievements and death matches.

With Kotaku Core, you get access to a trickle of pure, refined, uncut news about videogames and nothing else, covering such important topics as how awesome that upcoming game is going to be, how awesome that new game is, and how that last game wasn’t actually as awesome as we said it was, but we’ve received a screenshot of the sequel and how awesome is it going to be? So awesome.

As depressing as it is that some people seem to feel that the videogame press is insufficiently shallow, this appears to be the future of the internet. Rejecting even the thinnest veneer of actual relevance, readers demand to lick the frosting from the cupcake of news media and toss the rest in the trash bin.

Faced with such concentrated dedication to mass ignorance, the only moral option is to fight it tooth and nail, to ferociously battle the uninformed masses for every inch of the cultural landscape.

Read the Editorial HERE!