Hard Drive (website)
American satirical gaming journalism website
Hard Drive (stylized in all caps) is an American satirical video game news website co-founded in 2017 by the editors of The Hard Times. Due to their similar writing style, Hard Drive is frequently compared to The Onion and was named 'The Onion of video games' by both Vice and Uproxx.
Hard Drive employs both staff and freelance writers.
History
Hard Drive was created in 2017 as a "spin-off" of The Hard Times, a satirical news website, and was co-founded by the latter's editors: CEO Matt Saincome, Jeremy Kaplowitz, Mike Amory, and Mark Roebuck. After The Hard Times' popularity grew, Saincome wanted to start a dedicated gaming vertical in the same style. Hard Drive articles grew popular and were reposted on Twitter.
In 2019, the website published an article in response to The Onion's new gaming-oriented section, the Onion Gaming Network. Fans believed that it was "stolen" from the premise of Hard Drive. Amory told Newsweek that as The Onion's legacy in satire was where they owed their success, "to say the Onion stole from us is like trying to claim The Beatles ripped you off." A spokesperson of The Onion responded to Newsweek, saying that the vertical was a "new creative venture" and that they believed there was "plenty of room" for multiple gaming satire publications to grow.
After The Hard Times was acquired by the Project M Group in 2020, Saincome and its parent company continue to operate Hard Drive.
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