If they go this far, it won't be a surprise if all of their articles is AI garbage
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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Gamerant is owned by Valent, which bought out and owns all the following:
Android Police, Comic Book Resources, Collider, Hardcore Gamer, MovieWeb, OpenCritic, Screen Rant, Game Rant, DualShockers, TheGamer, XDA Developers, How-To Geek, GiveMeSport, And Polygon
All of the above, and I mean all of them, had huge layoffs and pivoted to AI articles and adhoc underpaid contractors:
You shouldn't be allowed to own that much stuff. Simple solution.
Thankfully there's the FTC and its antitrust law! /$
ah man that sucks. I kinda like XDA and polygon.
Yeah XDA is (or I guess, was) invaluable for custom ROMs for Android. There's a huge modding/coding community on XDA.
Which has always been funny to me because they started as a Windows Mobile modding site.
Sadly the wild west days of custom ROMs is mostly over :(
You say "wild west" as if they were doing something uncivilized, but running the code you choose is nothing more than exercising your property rights.
The marginalization/destruction of custom ROMs isn't civilization catching up, it's totalitarianism closing in.
Think this is what they meant
Another way of viewing the use of "wild west" was exactly that, the lack of over regulation and a more hands off government. In reality it wasn't the utopia some want to make it out to be as slang like "snake oil salesmen" alludes.
Meh, the scene for custom softwares on PS2s, phones, psps, PS3 Emulation, etc are still going strong. We only really just figured out how to emulate the PS3 a couple of years ago.
That sounds flat out illegal.
Holy fucking shit no wonder it appears that they sold out
Cause they DID.
XDA has gotten so much worse in the last 6 months it is astounding. Some unreal work is being done to kill custom android ROMs.
Oooh that's why all their articles in my feed are utter garbage, made the mistake of clicking a few and my god my phones built in feed is now inundated.
Like I mean easy to ignore and I don't even know if video game "journalism" even counts as something worth reading most of the time anyways not that kind of blows.
poor Polygon
Oof.
is this why xda became shit?
XDA ? Do they run the forums as well or?
I had to double take at freaking XDA!!! I had no idea.
If you've seen some of the half baked articles coming from there over the last year, you wouldn't be surprised at all. There's still some interesting stuff but there's a lot of half assed trash articles as well. I saw this and immediately everything made sense lol.
I always liked polygon…
It feels like almost everyone who made a career on the internet in the 20-teens has sold their brand to private equity
I agree. Seems like all media is going this way… No good things last forever is certainly more true than false these days.
link to what ur quoting,?
Its a qoute from the link in my comment under "reception."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valnet
Oh that explains a bit!
I'm guessing they more or less get their marching orders from the ESA, the corrupt lying political lobby of AAA video game companies... the AIPAC of the gaming world, if you would.