Pros
There are a few great parts about working at GameSkinny. The first being that it is a great place to get your foot into the industry. The intern program is really accepting (for better and worse) and that means that you can get in and learn if you have the passion. You will get emails that tell you how to write all the necessary types of articles for the industry (news, guides, reviews, interviews) etc. You also get a chance to work with an editor while also learning about SEO.
Moreover, if you are good enough, you can become a mentor, which is still a glorified intern (note: both the intern and mentor positions are unpaid). Here you can get experience editing articles, which is also valuable and is something you often don't get the opportunity to do unless you've worked yourself higher into another corporation's hierarchy. Moreover, all of the editors I worked with while here ranged from being pleasant to being great, interesting, fun people. They also have a great, light-hearted (if frazzled) culture that makes you unafraid to speak up and be yourself.
Cons
The largest con is that the program is unpaid. Other than that, the program can feel disorganized and hectic. This started out mildly annoying as an intern, because they'd say one thing but never follow up, but this was rarely a problem. It became a real problem as a mentor, however, as they'd constantly tell you things that never came to fruition. You thought you would be editing? Well, that's not until halfway through the program.
You're supposed to guide the interns, hence the name, but then when you were assigned teams, the interns would know before us. So we couldn't answer their questions. Moreover, between sessions, they wouldn't bother to tell us mentors changes, so we'd be left working with old information. There were many other instances of these sorts of things, and eventually it left a sour taste in my mouth because I felt like no one cared. The straw that broke the camel's back came when I realized just how uninterested they were in actually getting any of us past being mentors. They didn't teach us how to freelance-- despite saying they would-- and instead sought others from outside the organization.
It ended up feeling manipulative to know that you're new to this industry and yet they are having you sit over here making literally no money while promising to help you out but ultimately never really delivering.
The program itself can also feel fundamentally flawed because certain, important things are never taught to the interns, like formatting. Almost every article I edited had me giving the intern an impromptu lesson on how to find and edit images so that they fit their article.