Trip Hawkins threatened to pull advertising from GamePro after Portal Runner received an unfavorable review
EDGE warns that the days of the hardcore gamer are over.
Threads discussing it on the GamesRadar Forum are eventually deleted, though too late to hide the news that staffers gave 9/10 reviews to an unfinished game.
Per person each ride was worth at least $5000
Jeff Gerstmann was fired from Gamespot for giving a less than glowing review for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men after publisher Eidos threatened to pull advertising from the site
No really. This really happened.
Eurogamer's journalists don't even play meaningful time on a game before reviewing
Fake christian nutsos hired for a marketing stunt.
EA sent $200 checks to journalists to promote Dante's Inferno
For a $10 game.
Not only did Famitsu get promoted in-game, an executive starred in advertising for it
Instead of actually reviewing the game (Nier) and writing about it, he drops a few short paragraphs about how it was hazardous to his sanity.
Robert Florence raised questions in a Eurogamer article about a conflict of interest at a PS3 giveaway to journalists. Eurogamer was threatened with a libel suit and he left.
A bioware employee tried to sneak a perfect Metacritic user score onto the Dragon Age 2 page. Didn't go over so well.
The Redner Group states on twitter that sites that give low reviews will not receive review copies of future games
EA sent out surveys to outlets asking about the reviewers before providing a copy of the game.
IGN burns through PixelJunk Sidescroller on the lowest difficulty, says they did it on a higher difficuly, and complains about lack of content.
Because We're the ones making them run clickbait stupidity.
Like nobody would notice?
Former games writer Hasan Ali Almaci reveals just how corrupted the games reviewing industry got. Among the tidbits is a not that Famitsu is contractually obligated to give Square Enix games 7 or higher.
The same ME3 that was widely derided by actual gamers.
Among other things, he describes an example where a PR agent manages to bump a C-type game to a B-type game (79 to 81)
Really not much else to say.
After the backlash against ME3 EA spammed an anti-homphobia petition with bots.
Says it makes it "a better game"
A single photoshopped image causes Eurogamer, IGN, Gamespot and others to declare that upcoming titles for the PS Vita had been linked
Not only was the suit dismissed with prejudice but the accuser later wrote a public letter of apology
Geoff Keighly of G4 and Kotaku fame talks about Halo 4 and shills his brains out in front of Doritos, Mountain Dew and a bigass Halo 4 poster
Stanton details more corruption examples in the industry, including GTA4 review tinkering.
Simon Parkin, a former writer for EDGE, writes that "the idea of the gaming community needs to die"
Displeasure among DMC fans at DMC4 is spun as entitlement by gaming media during February of 2013. The following article is just one of several.
Gamers need to get with the times and accept ridiculous DRM methods. So spake Adam Orth.
Even though that is patently false considering journalists had pre-launch access.
Talks about how sites like TechRadar collude to inflate their google search ranking
Allistair Pinsof outs a trans woman who claimed to be fundraising for a life-saving operation but was actually using it for a sex reassignment operation. He is suspended.
In the mad rush to be first to report, Polygon is massively factually incorrect. Their excuse? It was "A developing story"
Polygon's reviewer is old buddies with the game's creator and gets invited on their podcast one week before the review
He details numerous occurrences during the 2013 year of games studios attempting to influence his writing
EA attempts to pay youtubers for promotion of their content, which is all well and good, except for the express non-disclosure part.
Tablets were given at an event in Paris
The premise of Tropico is that you are a dictator. Kind of the point.
Publisher of Firemonkeys supressed the release of the informtion for fear of angering EA.
Early Shadow of Mordor content releases to journalists had strings attached; namely, only positive reviews allowed.
Because you kill orcs in it. And kiss your wife. Lord, the horror.
At IGDA in Toronto, games journalist Liana K admitted to bumping review scores up because "it was a dick move" when bonuses require a slightly higher score.
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