bye video games

a lot of you know what i did for a living, but i tried to keep a pretty low profile on ILG
but yeah...16 years as a journalist in the business, now i'm leaving

feels like it's time, it's felt like a party i lingered at too long for the past couple years, #gg didn't help either

but yeah i don't know i feel like the era in which i fell in love with games and the era i covered has come to an end

that said, i do think there's a lot of good things coming, from indie games and what's going to happen in a couple years of having free unreal engine tools, continued unity support out there...but i'm a dinosaur in some respects, a product of the Grand PlayStation Era, the Roman likes of which the industry will never see again, I can't believe it all really looking back

tried to write about it....

http://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/editors/b/gimatt_blog/archive/2015/04/24/this-is-goodbye.aspx

read this on Facebook, good luck man; new gig sounds fun!

yeah should be

weird looking back at the whole time, industry really changed so much, so many amazing things

wow congrats matt! for a good long career, and for being able to step out of it when you needed to

RIP

do you remember, many many many years ago, listing "ILM" in one of those miniature editor profiles y'all used to have on the masthead? for whatever weird reason i remember very clearly seeing that, putting two and two together, and marveling at the big/small nature of the world.

good for you for making the change! what's the new gig?

content strategist at a pr/marketing firm, seems like it's going to be cool/interesting/nice folks

haha adam - i bet i did once, i always did those at like the very last minute

word. i only started checking out GI after meeting you on ILX/irl btw.

one other thing:

cliffy b is the biggest douchebag in human history
that is all

I don't know jack about games as an industry and even less about games journalism but I like your style on ILX and Twitter so: Congratulations and best of luck in your new job!

xp preach

and i'm sorry if you ever had to interact with him

oh i interacted plenty :)

thanks all

kind of excited to be able to be out of the loop and just buy some game randomly and play it knowing nothing

other than that i'm happy to report that there's at least an 80+% chance that your favorite game designer is a really nice person :)

Aw, good luck in the new job!

Yr one of my fave ilxors and it was seeming like the gig was making u low so this is good news all around. <3

Jon thank you for the kind words, the feeling is mutual

(Also Thx em & everyone)

Wait was it you guys or decibel that posted the letter from former Ilx poster the gzeus?

best of luck m@! I hope soon you are able to play some games as an "outsider" and feel like it's "fun again"

watching everclear at an eidos party is such a wonderful weird image. in my mind's eye there's a girl with baby bangs. handing out zima.

guess you wont have reasons to come to MTL now but if you do end up out here drinks on me :)

Sixteen years. That's the amount of time that passed between Elvis Presley's first single and the breakup of the Beatles. Looking back, I can say with confidence that the years I covered video games as a journalist were no less transformative and important than those years were to music.

one for the truth bomb thread for sure

good luck matt - always enjoyed reading your game informer stuff online.

gl dude

signing off w/celebrated summer is v classy, best of luck matt!

congrats, ums. how do you think you'll spend your gaming time now that it isn't your job? is there a kind of game you played for work that you'll be cutting out of your life now that you're free?

Good luck

dunno if you can say but: is the consultation game related?

Thanks all! New job is pretty cool, a little overwhelming, feel like I'm playing dress up in someone else's life. But yeah I am kind if excited to just buy some have l game I don't know anything about on xbl or steam. And just enjoy it without feeling obligated to have an opinion about it or take notes

sony has a sale on some gloriously awful games right now that you can play and enjoy without needing to be critical of them, that will probably be just the best feeling

i for one bought CITIZENS OF EARTH and it's dumb and idgaf i'm playing it