We're building a Defector for games. Pay once. Get in early.
You stopped reading Kotaku in 2016. You're patched across Aftermath, Crossplay, Backloggd, Game File, paying $15 to $25 a month, half-reading three of them. We're the bundle that puts them in one bill. $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.
- 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 head-to-head, more in development. Top of funnel, not filler.
- TAG Connections (daily, gaming-themed)
- Rank Arena (PvP ranking duels)
- Pro members get unlimited replays and archives
- Streaks, not leaderboard pressure
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 we are deliberately not doing.
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 AI Overviews ate the gaming SERPs. We saw it coming and stopped writing for it.
AI-researched, human-written.
Claude does our research, sometimes 100 times faster than we used to. Every piece still has a byline and a human edit. Faster research means more in-depth pieces, not slop-filled calendars.
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."
Lock $149 once. Be in before launch.
December 2026 the price moves to $99/year for everyone else. You will not be everyone else.
Claim a founding seat