(This is a copypasta from my own personal blog at Livejournal, refined with new links and clarification.)

Before I begin, I want to clarify what I mean by "gaming blogs." In this case, I am referring to Kotaku, Joystiq, Destructoid and others. I'd link you to them but I personally don't wanna give them hits. Go google search it if you're that curious. These type of blogs are ones I hate. The ones that are literally the scum of the gaming industry. Worse than fanboys, Michael Pachter, and bad commercials. I should probably explain why.

1. These guys will never fact-check. And if they do, it's very rare.
   I can't believe the several times I've seen blogs hawk up some rumor they found on "XBOX360RULEZ.NET" about some game confirmation or whatnot. They will post rumors without even going as far as asking the publisher, even if it results in simple "We don't comment on rumors" or "no comment" replies. The best example I can give is when Kotaku posted a link from some Cheapassgamer user about a new Xbox called "Xbox Pure." However, it was part of a contest CAG was doing to see who can make the most convincing hoax. As a result of not doing their research, Kotaku later realized they got punked. Instead of doing a simple "Oops, we fell for it, we're sorry" edit, they decided to condemn CAG for doing what was a harmless prank, which leads me to my next point:


2. They will act all high and mighty, as if them writing for some insignificant blog makes them special.
   Seriously, it's a job. Be professional. Acting like some holier-than-thou personality will get you hated on by many, and make it harder to find you future jobs if in the chance you get shitcanned. Now I'm not saying that "gaming is serious business," but in any form of writing job, you have to be professional and courteous to your employees.


3. They will act like assholes.
   This is related to the above, but the best example I can think of was a few years ago: there was a former Kotaku editor named John Brownlee (writing as "Florian Eckhardt") who wrote very offensive and sexist things as Kotaku articles. Such as an article about girl gamers, in which our illustrious Eckhardt thinks it's funny to treat women in a sexist way by asking them to have a TV on their back and be used as a mantlepiece. It floored me that he was writing this and not getting reprimanded by Brian Crecente. He was my primary complaint against the site in a long-outdated written piece titled "Kotaku is full of shit," of which I still have on old-ass hard drive from years ago. Unsurprisingly he and Eliza Gauger left for some other blog. Yet the "asshole" tone is still there through some of the new editors, and even editors from other gaming blogs.


4. They will end up being masters of the obvious, posting relatively old news, as well as pointing out things that internet nerds would already know.
   Says Kotaku: "HEY, DID YOU KNOW THERE IS JAPANESE PORN OF TIFA FROM FINAL FANTASY VII?!" Welcome to 1998, guys. Seriously. Rule 34 is always in effect: If it exists, there's porn of it. This applies to ANYTHING. There's like porn of DOOM CHARACTERS for fuck's sake! (I'm not linking that, go find it yourself.)


5. It's all about the hits, not about the writing.
   This was confirmed long ago, but: Gawker Media, who owns Kotaku, pay editors by the number of hits they receive on the site. I'm not kidding. That's why you see the constant wave of stupid rumors and Japanese porn articles. Idiots will link it, and the editor gets a nice fat paycheck for doing what former 1UP editor/now 2K Boston producer Shawn Elliott does in his spare time on Twitter. It's ridiculous.