Games as culture

Games are an industry and a culture. This desk will treat them that way: design, labor, studios, competition, and the audiences that keep a title alive.

The platforms are named as platforms: Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Epic, Roblox, and the mobile stores. The publishers are named as publishers. A crunch story, a studio closure, a union drive, or a live-service shutdown is reporting. A new URL every time a publisher tweets a promo code is not.

What this desk is not

We are not a redeem-code mill. If a mechanic needs explaining, we will explain it in an article with a byline. Reviews follow the same independence rule as Culture. Esports sits here as sport and as media; the broader sports world is on Sports.

Pitches: editorial@lapress.org.