Aftermath is an independently owned video game website and blog launched in 2023.
Alongside news about video games, the site also publishes content related to internet culture, and also manages a podcast.
[4][3] While other news websites primarily host advertisements to make profits, Aftermath uses a subscription business model that is required to access the site's content.
[4][2] In 2023, several divisions of news websites that covered video games were shut down,[3] with several more laying off several writers.
In November 2023, several former writers of these sites, namely Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, Riley MacLeod, and Luke Plunkett, created Aftermath.