Hi there Game Daily fans, I’m about to bring you upto speed on the hip, young slender something that all the cool kids are most definitely not hitting.

Kotaku:

“AOL Buys GameDaily

AOL has purchased GameDaily from Gigex, the company announced today.

As part of the agreement AOL gets both GameDaily and Biz.GameDaily. This is the second major game site purchased by AOL. Last year the company bought up Weblogs Inc, which includes gameblog Joystiq.

GameDaily will become the flagship of the AOL Games network, which will still feature stories from their current writers and properties. The AOL Video Games editorial team will be combined with the GameDaily editorial staff to create content for GameDaily.“

Back up just a second there el journalisto: AOL BUYS GAMES FREAKING DAILY? Nurse, check my dosage of red pills. GameDaily, the site I’ve been slanging on recently, aka the most downtrodden worthless collection of characters ever flung into the webosphere, has been purchased by AOL Times Warner.

I’m not a business man, but I know a bad deal when I see one staring me dead in the face. Lest it need stating, GameDaily is the best guide ever written on how not to put finger to keyboard and start writing about games. And yet AOL brings out the big bucks and calls it a deal. Why would any rational company do this?

Well allow me to stop you there, Mr Smarty Pants, before you leap and say ‘B-b-b-but AOL isn’t rational!’ You’re right, it’s not. Didn’t we hear recently and continue to hear of AOL’s frankly hideous consumer support lines that are staffed with jargon spewing drones who have all subscribed to AOL Bullshitting Monthly (How To Keep A Customer In Ten Easy Steps). Except it’s not Ten Easy Steps, they wrote a whole manual on it. And then we all laughed for ten minutes when AOL threw out months worth of logs of 500,000 users onto the web, before the realisation dawned that maybe it wasn’t as much hilarious as a complete contravention of privacy laws. And now AOL has purchased GameDaily, the most worthless site on the web: actually paid for it and everything, without using Monopoly money.

I know what is going on here. AOL has been infiltrated by the same evil alien lifeforms who instigated it way back several millennia ago, and they’re taking it down. They’ve had enough. They’re killing it from the inside. They’re totally fucking it. It’s beautiful to watch the masters at work, I guess. But there’ll come a time when you’re sitting in your garden with your air rifle and you’re taking aim along the sights and then it hits you:

YOU RAN OUT OF AOL STARTUP CDs.

Update: the letter that I wrote to GameDaily’s editor last week was picked up in their mailbag article of response to Chris Buffa’s various articles.

The inclusion of my un-prettified 5AM ramblings should probably annoy me more than it does, I’m just amused they would even publish it since it attacks them fairly along the broadsides. No such thing as bad press, perhaps. Or a lack of better entries.

Chris Buffa sent me a response via email that wasn’t entirely satisfying, so I fired one back.