Games media as it exists today is entirely incapable of healing itself. It exists as a half dozen atomized outlets, each an appendage to a larger media company, reliant on platforms and technologies far outside their control. Games media is in an eternal suspended animation, its budget always getting cut, staff perpetually in line for the chopping block, access and resources held over writers by studios and media empires. It is capitalism in microcosm. The holes will never be patched, the sense of impending doom is baked into the fabric that holds these outlets (momentarily) together.