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TouchArcade is Shutting Down – TouchArcade

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This can be a put up that I’ve identified was coming for fairly a while, however that doesn’t make it any simpler to put in writing. After greater than 16 years TouchArcade shall be closing its doorways and shutting down operations. There could also be an extra put up right here or there within the coming weeks as we attempt to honor any beforehand agreed to obligations, and a correct farewell put up is within the works too, however as of now our regular every day operations have ceased. The explanation we’re shutting down most likely isn’t a shocking one: Cash.

A lot of you who’ve adopted TouchArcade for a very long time are properly conscious that we’ve had monetary troubles for a few years now, and to be frank I feel it’s a miracle that we’ve been in a position to final so long as we have now. The reality of the matter is {that a} web site like ours simply doesn’t earn money anymore. To our personal detriment we’ve resisted issues like obnoxious in-your-face promoting, egregious clickbait headlines, or ethically questionable sponsorships, which sadly are the sorts of issues that truly nonetheless earn money within the web of at the moment.

There are a selection of different causes which have contributed to us reaching this level, however I’d quite not get into all that proper now. TouchArcade was an establishment for a lot of hundreds of thousands of individuals over the previous 16 years, and it was my full-time job for the final 14+ years. A strong third of my life. In some ways it’s like one among my youngsters, and having to say goodbye to it is extremely tough to do. I’d actually quite concentrate on all the good occasions we had than dwell on the issues which we can’t change.

Additionally, as a person with a spouse and two younger youngsters, and a mortgage, and all that different enjoyable grownup stuff, that is the top of my livelihood, and regardless of them being “freelancers” in a technical sense that’s true for the opposite two individuals who have been the beating coronary heart of TouchArcade, Shaun Musgrave and Mikhail Madnani. Which brings me to my subsequent level…

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Jared Nelson – That’s me! Clearly I’ve greater than 14 years of expertise working proper within the very thick of the cell gaming growth right here at TouchArcade. Writing, enhancing, managing employees, touring to conventions. I’ve just about carried out all of it. I even have a reasonably diverse work historical past earlier to TouchArcade, together with in administration roles, that I feel provides me a very well-rounded set of expertise. You possibly can contact me on LinkedIn or by electronic mail at jared [at] toucharcade [dot] com.

Shaun Musgrave – Shaun has been with TouchArcade for a bit over 11 years, however has been in skilled video games media for greater than 25 years total. He’s palms down some of the gifted writers I’ve ever encountered, and if we wanted a assessment for a giant, essential sport and wanted it by a really tight deadline Shaun was all the time reliable. He additionally makes use of his huge, nearly uncanny information of online game historical past to seek out fascinating angles to put in writing about video games that solely he may discover. Shaun lives in Japan and is fluent in each Japanese and English, making him an incredible candidate for localization work as properly. Please attain out to him at muzkind [at] hotmail [dot] com.

Mikhail Madnani – As a part of TouchArcade for greater than 7 years, Mikhail has been the workhorse of our employees. Posting the majority of what you’d see on a everyday foundation, there isn’t a potential approach our web site may have stored operating for thus lengthy with out Mikhail’s contributions. An skilled at sniffing out fascinating information tales after which posting them in a well timed vogue, but in addition in a position to put collectively big options like in-depth interviews and multi-platform evaluations. His coffee-laden header pictures are legendary as properly. In the event you want somebody who can reliably and constantly put up video game-related content material, then I can’t suggest Mikhail extremely sufficient. Attain out to him at hi there [at] failgunner [dot] com.

So What Occurs Now?

If there’s some kind of silver lining to all of this, it’s that for the foreseeable future the entire content material that has ever been posted to TouchArcade will stay on-line and accessible to all. Greater than 33,000 printed articles, together with greater than 4,000 sport evaluations, to not point out all of our yearly Greatest Of content material and Sport of the Yr picks. These ought to hopefully all proceed residing on into the longer term for reference functions and simply to look again and see how drastically the cell gaming panorama modified over the past decade and a half.

We’re additionally hoping to proceed with our Podcast, The TouchArcade Present, which very just lately simply celebrated its 600th(!) episode. There are a pair co-hosts who’ve come and gone through the course of the podcast (shout out to Model and Mike!) however myself and Eli Hodapp have been a continuing presence on the present for the reason that very starting, and it’s actually loopy that we’ve each spent 13+ years of our lives placing out hour-long podcasts on a (almost) weekly foundation.

Associated to that, chances are you’ll be questioning about our Patreon. The assist from our Patreon has far and away been the largest contributor to TouchArcade persevering with to exist since we launched it in June of 2015, nearly a decade in the past. Our ideas are to pivot the Patreon contributions in the direction of protecting the podcast going, and maybe occasional posts or particular options written by the employees right here. Maybe a random “SwitchArcade” or a assessment a couple of notably high-profile cell sport launch. Possibly we may even squeeze in a Sport of the Yr for this 12 months? It’s only a nugget of an concept proper now, however it will be fairly cool to see TouchArcade be capable to dwell on even in that small approach.

Regardless of the case finally ends up being, I’ll explicitly change the verbiage of our Patreon to state that it’s now not about supporting the web site, and if folks select to cease contributing then that’s completely comprehensible. If persons are giving us cash month-to-month I need to be completely clear about what it’s going in the direction of. Anyway, search for extra information about this within the coming weeks, and on the very least make sure you observe alongside as a free member on our Patreon to remain within the loop. Additionally in case you have any questions or issues, please be at liberty to achieve out to me at suggestions [at] toucharcade [dot] com or go away a remark under.

Properly, that about does it, I feel. I communicate for all of us who’ve contributed to operating TouchArcade over the previous 16 years–from the co-founders Arnold Kim and Blake Patterson, to the primary full-time rent and future Editor in Chief Eli Hodapp, and to the handfuls of different writers and freelancers who’ve helped make TouchArcade what it’s–we simply need to give a honest thanks for ever studying our website, listening to our podcast, or attending one among our occasions. It has been an absolute pleasure to have such a beautiful viewers who appreciated what we did a lot and we’ll all ceaselessly be pleased about the time that we have been in a position to spend collectively.

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