Last Thursday, I spoke at NYU Game Center about the future of games journalism and how 50 years of history can tell us which ongoing trends should terrify us and which should give us hope. One trend that’s an Unqualified Good is the current abundance of games media. Each publication in the image above is unique. And the slide represents a modest portion of the hundreds, if not thousands, of people using text, audio, and video to report, analyze, critique, contextualize, and archive the medium.
The image makes a bold first impression, but it’s not a particularly useful curation tool. So, I’ve assembled “An Incomplete Catalogue of Games Media in 2026.”
To start, this spreadsheet doesn’t include everything. How could it? For example, I didn’t attempt to catalogue Twitch streamers, and I only included a corner of YouTube. The list is focused on English-speaking publications, mostly from the United States. If folks want to build on it with their own forks, they’re totally welcome to!
Chris Plante, formerly of Polygon, one-third of The Besties1, and now creator of the fantastic, weekly, NPR-esq gaming podcast Post Games has — through crowdsourcing — built a heck of a document showcasing all sorts of gaming media in the world of 2026.
With sites being sold off, closed, or otherwise made defunct, chances are, your old haunts aren’t what they used to be — so if you’re looking for new sites, podcasts, or YouTube channels on gaming, this spreadsheet is a heck of a start. Hopefully you find a new favorite out of it.
- We’ll miss you, Justin! ↩