Another media outlet is retreating from gaming . The A.V. Club has laid off its full-time gaming editors as it refocuses its resources on its “core strengths” of movies and TV. It’s the latest casualty of Paste Media ownership repeatedly fumbling the ball. “We regret The A.V. Club couldn’t be a home to expanded video games coverage once again,” the company wrote in a statement. Paste Media, originally organized around a print music magazine, went online-only in 2010 and expanded into video games with the Paste Games vertical. After several brief tours by different editors, including Kotaku alumnus Kirk Hamilton, it was overseen for 15 years by Garrett Martin, during which time it was an outlet for some of the most insightful and incisive voices in games criticism. Then, in mid-2025, it was briefly spun out as a separately branded entity called Endless Mode .…