You're paying $316 a year to half-read five gaming sites. One bill covers all of it. $149, once.
You stopped reading Kotaku in 2016. You're patched across Aftermath, Crossplay, Backloggd, Game File, paying $26 a month, half-reading three of them. $149 once. Lock it before launch.
You're already paying for this. Just patchworked.
Real quote from ResetEra: "if I supported all the creators whose content I consume it would probably be $100+ which I absolutely cannot afford." We did the math too. Here's what we found.
The patchwork
What an engaged reader pays today, across five outlets
TAG Pro, founding
Editorial + SavePoint + Discord + Arcade. One bill.
You don't follow brands. You follow people.
Every gaming outlet you trusted got gutted. The writers landed somewhere. Here's the map. TAG is the bundle that sits next to them, not above them.
Four things, one bill. Built for adults.
Editorial, tracker, community, and games. Sold separately by other people for $316 a year. Bundled here for $149 once.
Adult-mode editorial
Honest reviews and returning-player guides written for people with kids, jobs, and four hours a week. Not for sweats. Not for SEO.
- Weekly Patch Briefing across five live games
- "Is this worth your weekend" reviews
- Returning-player guides for the lapsed ranked crowd
- Long-form columns, not 100-word posts
SavePoint Decision Engine
You spent five hours staring at your Steam library. We tell you what to play this Saturday, in your two-hour window, from the library you already paid for.
Backlog Score: the dollar figure on games you bought and never opened. Updates nightly. Most people's first number is over $1,500.
- Engine reads your library, mood, and time budget
- Household library mode for couples
- Backloggd CSV import (free), Year in Gaming wrapped
- Pro members get full historical data and exports
Members Discord
Paywalled means filtered. No 19-year-olds. No engagement-bait posters. Writers are in the room with you, posting drafts and reading replies.
- Member-only channels, no public flood
- Founders lounge for the first 100
- Game-specific rooms for what TAG covers
- Co-mod system, no power-mod cliques
TAG Arcade
A daily five-minute habit. Connections clone built for gamers, Rank Arena, where you guess which game sold more, scored higher, or held players longer. Top of funnel, not filler.
- TAG Connections (daily, gaming-themed)
- Rank Arena (daily: guess which game ranks higher)
- Pro members get unlimited replays and archives
- Four daily games, five minutes each
Two ways in. Both lock the price.
Standard launch pricing is $99 per year, December 2026. Founding members lock in lower than that, forever.
- Pro access, forever, no renewal
- Permanent Founder badge in Discord
- First-100 Founders Lounge access
- Beats the patchwork at 9-month break-even
- $79/year locked even when launch hits $99
- Permanent Founder badge in Discord
- Founders Lounge access
- Cancel anytime, refund first 30 days
Four things you will not get here.
Ad-free for Pro, not anti-ad.
Pro members get a clean reading experience, no display ads. Free readers keep TAG funded with Mediavine. We're not pretending ads are evil. We're giving you the option to opt out.
SEO-driven.
We write columns and reviews, not search bait. Google started answering the questions itself. We stopped writing for Google.
We use AI for research. Never for writing.
Every piece has a named human author who played the game, formed the take, and wrote the sentences. We use AI to pull patch notes and pricing history faster than we could by hand. If a piece reads like a machine wrote it, tell us and we will pull it.
Parasocial.
We're not a Patreon for two guys. We're a media bundle. If you only want one writer, follow Patrick at Crossplay or Stephen at Game File. We're the bundle around them.
"We're 38 and 39. Our friends have kids. We're at a different stage. The gaming press talks past us anyway. So we built a thing for adults. Pay once. Be in early."
December 2026, this becomes $99 a year for everyone.
You will not be everyone.
Claim a founding seat