I think its important to give you guys an overview of how it is in another country,as in to compare the obstacles and difficulties regarding gaig journalism.
I am a gaming journalist from Brasil, and here, the conversation has not yet evolved to a point where we talk about the industry itself. All people care about are reading and specially seeing or listening, about their favorite games from past, present and future.
Now, there are good things about this and bad.
The discussion has not evolved, but that means the conversation is still pure. What maters most are the games, and people play something, and go searching for podcast, videos and reviews about that, and that is how most of the traffic gets around. Anything industry related that brings traffic is very specific, like the time when the guy that calls himself the representative for video games in our government said he would work hard to get steam to be taxed in Brasil, because it wasn't fair to the physical shops, an industry he said was just starting in Brasil (the biggest franchise for video game stores here is over 25 years old)
The bad thing is the centralization of the video game portals in just a handful of websites. Here there are 2 or 3 sites that hog all the traffic, because they have the structure to have the news and the discussions first. Everyone else have a differentiation of going into deep discussions, but the vast majority are enthusiasts that don't make money off of it, so they lose it on timing. We don't seem to have a space for other types of content to really flourish.
So in the US and Europe, I think it very healthy that topics like this one get to have this many pages, and all journals get to be accountable to the readers this way. I hope one day here we get to have these problems as well.