Life After IGN (With Max Scoville And Brian Altano)

On a very special Inside Baseball Week episode of the show, we’re joined by Max Scoville and Brian Altano—formerly of IGN until recent layoffs forced them to create their own independent network, X Button. It is not an understatement to say that Scoville and Altano knew IGN inside and out; both had been at the site for over a decade. We discuss how a publication that, to many, is synonymous with games journalism grew and adapted as it went from being the biggest fish in a relatively small pond to just another voice on the algorithmically-driven, content-obsessed internet. They also tell us what it was like when people used IGN as a target for their many grievances with games journalism, which was basically every day, for a different reason each time. Now, though, at X Button, they get to start over with a clean slate. A mere two weeks into the venture, they tell us what, ideally, that will look like. Lastly, we discuss a subject much nearer and dearer to our hearts than any of that: chicken nugget dipping sauces. Credits - Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Riley MacLeod, and special guests Max Scoville & Brian Altano - Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude - Subscribe to Aftermath ! About The S…