Video game journalism
Journalism genre that reports on video games
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| 2025 | Served as executive producer of the musical cast album for the West End adaptation of Your Lie in April, co-produced with his wife Stephanie. |
| June 10 2025 | MatPat announced the creation of the Creator Economy Caucus through Twitter/X, a bipartisan group aimed at helping creators work with lawmakers to develop internet-age legislation, supported by approximately 10 representatives. |
| 2024 | Launched LoreFi, a lo-fi mystery series channel in the summer. |
| 2024 | Launched LoreFi, a lo-fi mystery series channel. |
| 2024 | MatPat hosts 'FNAF UNSOLVED' episode focusing on 'Midnight Motorist' storyline |
| 2024 | Release of Angry Video Game Nerd: BFG Disc 10 Blu-ray, containing episodes 188-206 |
| 2024 | MatPat collaborated with Five Nights at Freddy's for a Youtooz figure and pins. |
| 2024 | MatPat acts as Phone Guy/William Afton in 'FNAF the Musical: Shadows of Agony' music video by Random Encounters |
| 2024 | MatPat is surprised with his own movie by collaborators |
| 2024 | Multiple Five Nights at Freddy's (FNAF) themed music releases, including 'FNAF: Dark Remains' by Random Encounters, 'FREDDY' by CG5 featuring Black Gryph0n, and 'FNAF KIDS' by The Chalkeaters featuring multiple artists |
| 2024 | MatPat films 'Last Meal' episode, potentially signaling a significant transition in his content creation |
| 2024 | MatPat explores the entire FNAF timeline as a Fredbear's Family Diner announcer |
| 2024 | MatPat appears in FNAF UNSOLVED episode focusing on 'MIDNIGHT MOTORIST' |
| 2024 | MatPat engaged in the episode 'MrBeast' featuring '50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000'. |
| 2024 | MatPat will collaborate on 'FREDDY' with CG5 featuring Black Gryph0n. |
| 2024 | MatPat will participate in 'FNAF KIDS' by The Chalkeaters featuring Black Gryph0n, DHeusta, The Stupendium, and OR3O. |
| 2024 | MatPat participated in the episode 'Kill Count' discussing 'Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)'. |
| 2024 | MatPat will be featured in 'FNAF: Dark Remains' by Random Encounters. |
| October 2024 | MatPat concludes his hosting of GTLive, marking the end of his regular YouTube content creation. |
| October 2024 |
Supper Mario Broth
The author revealed the death of his mother, with whom he had been the primary caretaker for six years, and initially planned to discontinue the Supper Mario Broth accounts.
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| October 2024 |
Supper Mario Broth
After posting an unlisted YouTube video asking for help, the Patreon supporters increased from a few hundred to over 4,000.
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| October 2024 |
Supper Mario Broth
The owner announced via Twitter that he would be able to continue running the sites full-time and invest in materials and equipment for more Mario content.
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| October 2024 | MatPat continued to make minor appearances and hosted GTLive after his departure as a regular host. |
| August 2024 |
Gamergate
Beacon Press published David Wolinsky's book 'The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet', featuring comments from 88 public figures on Gamergate's significance.
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| May 2024 | IGN Entertainment acquired Gamer Network and its properties, including Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and VG247, resulting in some layoffs due to redundancies. |
| May 2024 | MatPat appeared on an episode of Wired's 'Web's Most Searched Questions' series. |
| March 2024 |
Gamergate
Media outlets including The Week, Wired, and The Verge compared the online backlash against Sweet Baby Inc. to Gamergate, dubbing it 'Gamergate 2.0'.
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| March 9 2024 | MatPat departed from his channels as a regular host. |
| January 9 2024 | Announced his retirement from hosting Theory channels, to be replaced by team members, with plans to continue creative projects like the LoreFi mystery series. |
| January 9 2024 | MatPat announced his plan to step down from hosting his channels on March 9, while still retaining a creative role and making occasional appearances. |
| 2023 | Expanded Summer Game Fest to an in-person event after previous virtual iterations in 2020, 2021, and 2022. |
| 2023 | MatPat was credited in 'Five Nights at Freddy’s' as a Sparky's Diner waiter. |
| 2023 | MatPat's archival recording 'A Little Theorizing' was released by The Stupendium. |
| August 27 2023 | MatPat hosted the Streamy Awards, which garnered 15 million views across digital platforms in its first 48 hours. |
| June 2023 |
Gamergate
Alyssa Mercante of Kotaku argued that the gaming industry was particularly vulnerable to Gamergate due to the marginalization of women and lack of safeguards on social platforms.
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| February 18 2023 | The Style Theorists, a new channel focusing on fashion, was launched by MatPat and quickly reached a million subscribers three days later. |
| 2022 | Release of The Angry Video Game Album, an album associated with the Angry Video Game Nerd web series |
| 2022 | Release of Angry Video Game Nerd: BFG Disc 9 Blu-ray, covering episodes 165-187 |
| 2022 | Metacritic was acquired by Fandom, Inc., marking a significant ownership change for the review aggregation platform. |
| 2022 |
Charlie Brooker
Brooker was credited as the creator of the animated interactive fiction Cat Burglar.
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| 2022 | MatPat appeared in the Markiplier episode 'PowerWash Pals: MatPat from Game Theory'. |
| 2022 | MatPat was involved in 'Obliterate' by Dad featuring Corey Graves. |
| 2022 | MatPat's archival recording of 'MUUUSIC MAN! (MatPat Remix)' was released by Dufixklusiv. |
| 2022 | Wrote and coordinated an open letter to the BBC criticizing an article about trans women, which was signed by over 20,000 people. The letter challenged the article's methodology and called for accountability from the BBC. |
| December 2022 | MatPat announced the launch of a fourth Theory channel and the purchase of Theorist Media by startup Lunar X. |
| November 2022 |
Gamergate
Brendan Sinclair of GamesIndustry.biz critiqued the video game industry's response to Gamergate, arguing it was motivated by cowardice and potential customer alienation.
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| October 2022 | The Guardian praised Rogers' video review of Boku no Natsuyasumi as 'a meditation on art's capacity to give meaning to life'. |
| October 2022 |
Gamergate
David DePape, who attacked Paul Pelosi, claimed his involvement with Gamergate was part of his turn to the far-right.
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Supper Mario Broth, MatPat, Angry Video Game Nerd, Laura Kate Dale, IGN, Tim Rogers (writer), Metacritic, Gamergate (harassment campaign), Geoff Keighley & Charlie Brooker, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.