I personally witnessed the decline of the only gaming rag I ever bothered with. GameInformer, years ago was an awesome rag. I'd get it for the reviews, the previews and even some of the articles were decent.  Slowly it started to suck, the articles couldn't hold my attention and the reviews seemed off base from what I saw with game in hand.  It took years for me to really realize how shitty the rag was, how off base it was and how terrible the entire review team was.  It seemed like I was reading the same review for the same game month after month. I finally stopped subscribing and never looked back.    I don't get gaming news any more, I just don't care to separate the wheat from the chaff. I don't have time for that shit, so I listen to what my friends are saying, to what they're playing.  I really don't like a lot of the most popular types of games. Moba bores me, FPS bores me, multiplayer.. fuck that noise I don't deal with loud mouthed children in my day to day llife why would I game with them.     I've probably missed a bunch of good games, but I haven't invested in any crap for years.