Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.
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Hard Drive History
Brief History: The Hard Times started in late 2014 with just a few punk kids, comics, and friends of Matt Saincome, Bill Conway, and Ed Saincome.
In 2017, The Hard Times branched out in a new gaming vertical called Hard Drive, which lived on thehardtimes.net until getting its own website in 2021. Three former Hard Times contributors in Jeremy Kaplowitz, Mike Amory, and Mark Roebuck were tapped to be cofounding editors of the section. In 2019 Hard Drive’s editors created satirical gamer presidential candidate Ace Watkins (“an idea started as a shitpost by [Editor-in-chief] Kaplowitz”), and played by comedian Phil Jamesson.
Andy Holt and Kevin Flynn served as editors under Jeremy, helping shape the brand’s voice for years. Mark Roebuck, staff writer behind many of the site’s viral hits, served as Editor-in-chief after Jeremy.
Hard Drive has had 700+ contributors since its founding. The site is currently managed by Matt Fresh and Kyle Duggan, along with several others.
To read more about Hard Drive’s history and founding you can check out stories here and here.
How to apply
Come up with a pitch for one of these specific content types. Ask yourself these questions:
- Does this look like it fits the style and format of other Hard Drive articles?
- Am I capable of producing this content and working with Hard Drive to publish it in a timely manner?
If the answer to both of those questions is “yes,” then come up with 5 headlines that you think are Hard Drive worthy and email them to [email protected] with the subject line “Hard Drive”. For a better idea of what we’re looking for you can read through this page.
Be patient, me may not respond right away. We may not respond at all but that’s okay, just touch some grass, improve yourself and come back with new and improved pitches after an appropriate amount of time has passed.
The goal of your pitch is to allow one of our editors to get to an “easy yes.” AKA, even if we don’t want to run your pitches, we just want to know that you understand comedy, our voice and can come up with ideas worthy of the Hard Drive lineage.
If your idea has a subtext about a niche topic, it doesn’t hurt to explain the subtext in an additional line, so that our editors can understand the reference.
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