[quote=Hellis]It's a sensationalist tropé; Death of <insert here> is as old as journalism itself. The funny part is that more serius institutions are past the whole thing and covering the fact that E-sports is getting huge and that gamers are entering mainstream as 'athletes'. Making these so called "Gaming Journalists" look twice as dumb in the process.[/quote]

Oh it's definitely a sensationalist trope.
It's just that the specific timing of it doesn't make it seem like a typical trope thing, but rather a reaction to how all the heat they've been getting from gamers lately.