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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu

Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26

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Lizzyf620 yt 2 minutes ago I do not expect this comment to stay up for very long, as there have already been numerous balanced and peaceful critical comments removed There is much wrong with this piece. Aside from the obvious, of course - disinterest in reaching out to both sides in an effort to get a full and cohesive story, you played into the role of clickbait. You put your ratings above integrity, truth, and neutrality. This copy-paste of a story has worked out well for your competitors, so no wonder you decided to jump in. In the specific case of Grand Theft Auto 5, you leave out a HUGE piece of information there is not a single mission in the game requiring you to either proposition a sex worker OR kill her. In fact, if you DO kill a sex worker, the cops show up roughly 10 seconds later. The sex workers are so important that the cops violate the laws of physics to literally teleport from the police station, and take your weapons and money. But suppose we cant allow pesky facts like that to interfere with your story, right? Or of course, the fact that you can kill men as well Cant claim MISOGYNY if every character is treated equally. Im assuming none of you bothered to play the game prior to coverage in order to make sure your information from a single source (who profits off this very specific portrayal) was correct. Way to go! You've also followed the trend of using the same two voices in order to stress harassment while completely ignoring the repeated threats, harassment, and doxing of those fighting for the key goals in the Gamergate consumer revolt. May ask why? Why does our wellbeing matter so much less than these two people? While most of the harassment towards both sides has been the work of online trolls, I DO believe all threats should be taken seriously. I also think it's irresponsible and a bit dangerous to assume you know the origin or motive of anonymous online threats Considering Ms Sarkeesian's worst harasser was traced BY a person in the GG consumer revolt to a Brazilian blogger, as well as reported by others involved to both Twitter and US/Brazilian authorities, it seems odd you would omit that information. Actually, no, it doesnt seem odd ata seems extremely typical and expected. Your investigative skills are exactly what I would expect them to be Why does the media never include the very real evidence we have showing documented corruption, collusion, and nepotism in the gaming press? Because from the MSM to the game news publications, you clearly all scratch each others back, subconsciously at the very least You're all cut from the same fabric, the only difference is some of you charge more. You should be deeply ashamed of this piece. I know I would be if I had anything to do with it. Show less

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History of Ethics failures - Journalist's ask why they should do their own job

THIC FAIL -SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGUNFAIR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE Coverage from game outlets is often the difference between success and obscurity for But the endorsement of many journalists seems to be based not on merit, but on con- nections-granting privileged industry access to those in their clique One journalist that has come to symbolize the in- Hernandez has written no less than ten articles in a relationship with her, like Christine Love offering glowing endorsement and lots of links en- couraging purchase, but no trace of disclosure until the scandal's unearthing forced her employ ers at Kotaku to edit them, and admit this was a Many of the journalists accused of using their po- sition unfairly were members of the secret mailing pation of many elite game journalists-for exam- focus of scandals concerning critical distance, or the face of Gamasutra, their controversial edi- Alexander is one of the most polarizing people in game journalism, peppering her Twitter feed with rcareer-even GAMASUTRA IS.GD/GGKOTAKU ers are dead" articles of August 2014 IS.GD/GGSECRETS not knowing "how to dress or to be- have" and encouraging the industry in- to lose several sponsors and experi- ence a brutal drop in traffic. ism Alexander, who openly admitted to have no pretence to be unblased", and to "have an agenda", has frequently given blased, disclosure-less coverage to people she had a confirmed personal, non-professional relationship with including: Anna Anthropy. Friends since at least 2011, through mutual friend Patricia Her- nandez. Never disclosed their relationship in the at the least 6 articles written by Alexander about Anthropy, several of them riddled with purchase links. Sound designer Robin Arnott . Covered in 2014, friend since 2011, in good enough terms by 2012 to have received a piggyback ride from Alexander. Arnott Ramiro Corbetta, of Babycastles. Friends since 2010, with Alexander organizing Card/game dev Naomi Clark. Friends since 2012. Two articles in 2013 and 2014 Alexander also founded and co-owns the game developers consulting firm "Agency had similar friends-with-coverage benefits with Nathan Grayson Babycastles events as well, covered with an hagiographic article in 2012 Christine Love. Wrote about her on Vice. for Games", and directly promotes its customers through social media and her per- Alexander has not replied to these allegations, but has hidden her Facebook and Google Plus pages, to prevent further investigation. many debates when it came out in 2013, and its average scores on re- huge gap between the very positive often noted flaws-such as the short length and lack of action - and also gether with two of the game's small 9 pated in the podcast one week be- Gone Home, we find praise from Redshirt was praised on both PC by S Cara Ellison, who was re er-Kokoris, as well as on Kotaku by Also giving positive coverage to Kokoris was Gamasutra's Kris Lig- lished, and was also a judge at the id connection has yet been discov- terms for a very long time, with El lison asking her to hang out as ear- y as 2011. Kokoris also states that every claim of unfair advantage due as those listed here, is just a con !!!써세 IS.GD/GGINFO-IR Illlil'세 IS.GD/ETHICFAIL

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History of Ethics failures - Can someone say illegal collusion?

0 THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM SECRETS OF GAMEJOURNOPROS technica ing, GamejournoPros counted almost 150 Joystiq, IGN and Reddit owner Conde Nast fve gaming publications, some main- stream media journalists and even a few VoX MEDIA HE VERGE the IS.GD/GGKOTAKU Aol. Weblogs, Inc. IS.GD/GGQUICK Dale North GAMASUTRAer words a megaphane IS.GD/GGUNFAIR IS.GD/GCHAND .JURIC'TAY IS.GD/GGINFO-JURilliH체 is.ED/ETHICFAIL

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History of Ethics Failures - Welcome to DRM

THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGSIMCITY RUSHED SIMCITY REVIEWS In March 2013, the new Simcity game was released by Electronic Arts, to highly positive review scores Players, however, quickly realized that, due to server issues, Simcity's controversial always-online DRM consistently failed, making the game basically unplayable Early reviewers had played the game on a private press-only server, and were not aware of the issue. Outlets who chose to rush the review, such as Eurogamer and Polygon, gave high scores that lured their readers in buying a broken game Simcity's post-release reviews were much less positive due to this problem, and the game's Metacritic average dropped from 91/100 to 66/100 in a week (64 today), with thousands of extremely negative user scores. Some outlets released updated reviews of the game, with Polygon rating the game four times Today, the game has dropped the always-online requirement, despite creator Maxis originally stating that it was impossible. Metascore Universal acclaim based on 8 Critics User Score Generally unfavorable based on 255 Ratings 3.9 out of 100 Your Score What's this? Summary: Control a region that delivers true multi-city scale and play a single city or up to sixteen cities at once each with different specializations. Multiplayer adds a new facet to your game as your decisions will have an effect both your city and your region and creates new ways to play by collaborating or competing to earn achievements Collapse ▲ Developer: Maxis Genre(s): Other Strategy Games Cheats: On GameFAQs Rating: E10+ More Details and Credits a See the trailer Metascore Mixed or average reviews based on 75 Critics User Score Generally unfavorable reviews based on 4404 Ratings 2.2 64 Your Score What's this? Summary: Control a region that delivers true multi-city scale and play a single city or up to sixteen cities at once each with different specializations. Multiplayer adds a neW facet to your game as your decisions will have an effect both your city and your region and creates new ways to play by Expand Developer: Maxis Genre(s): Modern Cheats: On GameFAQs Rating: E10+ More Details and Credits See the trailer

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History of Ethics failures - Kotaku and friends

THIC FAIL SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGKOTAKU FRIENDS AT KOTAKU Several writers working at Kotaku, Gawker network's gaming outlet, have been accused of giving disproportionate and biased coverage to their friends. Controversial Kotaku writer 1 Patricia Hernandez has lived together with her close friend 2 Anna Anthropy, developer of Dys4ia, Redder and 2 Mighty Jill Off, and has given her positive coverage in six articles. Four of the articles were published after Her- nandez had lived with Anthropy, none of them contained any form of disclosure addition, Hernandez admitted to dating v Christine Love, and wrote about her game Hate Plus twice Both articles have a dispropor- tionate number of links encour- aging the purchase of Love's work and, once more, no disclosure I novel developer Don't you ever feel really strongly, sometimes, that you just want a nice hug? It doesn't bother me Kotaku was hit by a scandal in August 2014, due to its writer Nathan Grayson and his relationship with the developer of 5 Depression Quest. It was discovered that the developer cheated on her boyfriend with Grayson, who had previously covered her and her text adventure very positively in two articles-one for his previous job at Rock Pa- per Shotgun, and one for Kotaku, published about a week before their affair. Grayson and the developer are proven to be acquainted since before this last article with the two traveling to Las Vegas together and Grayson participating as a tester since a very early version of Depression Quest- with his name appearing in the credits. The developer of Depression Quest was featured as a guest writer on Kotaku shortly be- fore releasing her game, and is also a personal friend of Patricia Hernandez. Hernandez wrote two articles about her and her game, with no disclosure of this friendship What de you de? 2: Go bo bed Ihphouldnt be that hard Depress1ntoughts back off for five seconds meno·utofotmseis neer with your whr cert you stop Quest tronlfiction end fack everything up and get fired 6: Ge to your computer. Sleep is elearly het happening 4 FURTHER READING FURTHER READING S.GD/GGSECRETS IS.GD/GGQUICK The Grayson scandal was censored by aligned gaming press Kotaku's embarassingly poor journalism goes beyond cronyism While this is the most famous case of cronyism involving Grayson, it's not the only one-he also wrote without disclosure about friends such as mini-game developer Nina Freeman and the staff of mobile game company White Whale games. Perhaps, though, Grayson's most blantant impropriety is the overwhelming coverage giv en to his friend, sound designer 6 Robin Arnott Author of Oculus Rift game Soundself, Arnott received an abnormal amount of coverage from Grayson, being plugged six times in three months, with the bulk of the coverage for Soundself coming from Kotaku A judge of "Night Games", the branch of independent games festival Indiecade where Depression Quest wa ed, Arnott also had an affair with the t adven- nd the same time as Grayson ture's developer at had his. f 7Stephen Totilo has Kotaku editor in chi talked about the majority of the case here, stating that there was no violation of j na xpo He states that Grayson's mentions of Arnot n Quest's developer was ics, since it wa Grayson, their affair happened a week after cidental, and his article about Depres th- 0 a review and tilo stated that the very large volume of cov- erage Hernandez gave to her friends was tified. When Gamergate protests escalated, he eventually conceded that the lack of disclosure was a "screw up" caused by inexperience and IS.GD/GGDORITOS Totilo also initiall handwaved the iss see mmu ation, and a disclaimer wa sca added to the Hernandez articles. Totilo stated that asking for an apology would be excessive-just an act to shame the writ ILIJlAY IS.GD/GGINFO.·1IN!!!l: AY IS.GD/ETHICFAIL

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History of Ethics failures - the lazyiness

THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGQUICK QUICK & DIRTY Ad-supported revenue models strongly encourage bad journalism. Be the first to report, write frequent low-effort articles rather than few well-researched ones, jump on views-generating scandals. Maximize clicks. But poor journalism can backfire hard, leading to huge mistakes, and, sometimes, even g innocent people's lives. It's not a mystery that reviewers frequent- to good example being the 2008 IGN review FOOTBALL Despite being a well-received entry in MANAGER the established sports management se- ries, with a very positive vote even from IGN's UK branch, the game received an unprecedented 2/10 slating from IGN's US peared clearly unaquainted with the gen- IS.GD/GGSIMCITY Evolution and lamenting that "apart from managing your roster and c team" Football Manger 2009 didn't offer Simcity 2013 also go any gameplay. The review wasp t perplaxingly ty reviews from major sites an A similiar situation involved Eurogam- er and another 2/10 score, awarded to MMORPG DarkFall Online-whose view, stating that not only the reviewer's account had clocked just two hours, but he had spent the majority of them creat ing new characters rather than playing. ur cused the devs of lying. While the outlet did release a second review, the majority of it was spent just discussing the back- lash and implying that the original review was legitimate, while Darkfall devs and IS.GD/GGDORITOS r defended Zitron, but didn't do the same for Rab Florence nal reviews author, contributor Ed Zitron, never wrote for Eurogamer again. was in 2012, when an edited image from 4chan por traying three fake upcoming Playstation Vita titles The news was picked up by Joystiq, Gamespot and IGN, which alsoran with it.While these outlets soon edited their articles acknowleding the hoax, Kota- ku's Jason Schreier initially refused to admit he had been fooled, dismissing evidence present- IS.GD/GGSECRETS himself in the center of a multi-forum arguement, g users of various forums of insulting him and lying, dismissing their argue- ments as "ol game journalism" insults and ban- ning users from Kotaku, he eventually apologized. impropriety-rich lournoPros mailing s Bad journalism is not often something this funny-its consequences are usually much more dramatic. Stardock's CEO, 2 Brad Wardell, has felt them personally Within days of the article hitting, forum posts, follow-up articles and abuse started flooding the net. I received numerous death threats including one so specific (it was clear they had driven up close to our house) that we called the police. The death threats included r--- threats against my wife and disgusting vile threats against my children. For the past two years since, not a week goes by where someone doesnt send me a hate message (... Primarly known for his stance against such as Sins of a Solar Empire, War dell had a in 2012, wrote about two ongoing law- suits between his company and a former was hostile work environment, sexual har assment and battery,and Kotaku report- ed her allegations in detail, without any Wardell had not Wardell was also accused of having coun- right before le the c IS.GD/GGSECRETS taliation for the harassment suit. The Kotaku article had a large echo, and at Penny Arcade report, wrote about it, Kuchera and Fudge were also in as did 4 James Fudge, of Gamepolitics The lawsuits were settled in 2013, with the sexual harassment suit dismissed with prejudice and the to to Wardell for filing her suit and destroying Stardock propriety as condition for the settlement As Wardell stated, though, "Any time I speak on a given topic, this comes up". In September 2014, for- mer Bioware up the Kotaku accusations in his blog, but, after more research and being shown more documents by Wardell, he issued an apology, con- Polygon ku for "s----- journalism". The doc uments he had seen showed that Kotaku had re- ported the date of Stardock's allegedly-retaliatory lawsuit wrong by a full year. Wardell had been giv- en mere hours to comment, and the employee's nePolitics s had been la out of c Shortly after this, Fudge also offered his"long over due" apology for his article Kotaku's "s----- journalism has not yet stopped haunting Wardell, though. Just two months later he, as he habitually does, encouraged someone on Twitter to send Star- dock a resumé. Wardell was unaware that this person had made a crude, already re- moved, cartoon, and was viciously attacked by a controversy-hungry minor indie dev and her followers-who, again, brought against him the false and well-debunked sexual Despite his personal misadventures with it, Wardell has been extremely moderate in his He has criticized individual writers-such as Ben Kuchera, whose double standards brought him to advocate for censorship of a game journalism sex scandal with the mo- tivation of "harassment", after a pivotal role in spreading slander on Wardell-or events such as the anti-consumer "Gamers are dead" articles, but he seems to still hope that there's salvation for an industry tainted by "poor choices made by a few, believing that The average gaming journalist has immense integrity" and that most of them would a bribe or writing something intentionally biased IS.GD/GGHAND IS.GD/GGKOTAKU Kotaku is not infamous just for bad but c Despite Wardell's positivity, though, game journalism's already-abysmal reputation is constantly worsening, with increasingly large scandals hitting the troubled industry, as detailed, among others, by the now-numerous Ethic Fail infographs Wardell's story, and several similar ones surfacing, should serve as a reminder of the im- portance of journalistic integrity-the most efficient answer to the continusly-escalating criticism of the gaming press. As Wardell says himself, "The media should acknowledge that there's a problem and that their customers are getting fed up with it ALL IMAGES IS.GD/GGINFO ALL SOURCES IS.GD/ETHICFAIL

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History of Ethics failures DoritoGate

ETHIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGDORITOS THE GIFTS OF DORITOSGATE Doritosgate is a 2012 scandal involving collusion between advertisers and gaming press, popularly symbolized by the blank stare of game journalist 1 Geoff Keighley being in- terviewed while surrounded by Doritos, Mountain Dew and promotional posters. Doritos oritos oos XP DEWXP.com Doritosgate originated with an editorial written by Eurogamer contributor and non-game journalist 2 Rab Florence , which discussed the lack of ethical standards of the gaming press, and their excessively friendly relationship with game industry PR people. Florence criticized the Games Media Awards - an UK event sponsored by game publish- ers where game journalists receive awards from PR representatives. 2 The GMAs shouldn't exist. By rights, that room should be full of people who feel uncomfortable in each other's company PR people should be looking at games journos and think- ing, "That person makes my job very challenging." Why are they all best buddies? What the hell is going on? GAMER A competition held at the 2012 GMAs awarded game journalists who advertised a cer tain game on twitter a chance to win a Playstation 3. Florence quoted in his article some game journalists who had defended this competition from accusations of bribery, and argued that, although certainly innocent of corruption, these journalists were hurting their credibility with this endorsement. One of the journalists Florence quoted, 3 Lauren Wainwright threatened legal action. Eurogamer, in response, par tially censored Florence's piece prompting his resignation and a very strong internet backlash uren Wainwrigh Gatheistium Staft Writer, games blogger and The Sun, IGN and more. UK 3 against Wainwright. Wainwright, an enthusiastic praiser of video game Tomb Raider, was discovered to have listed work with the game's publisher Square Enix in her resume (references to which she deleted), and to have written reviews of their games- which she had denied doing She has since admitted her threatened lawsuit was "a mistake Florence's article sparked a very large discussion even before the censorship controversy gave it a larg- er echo, with articles on nearly every major outlet. Kotaku editor in chief 4 Stephen Totilo, when he was asked about coverage of the topic, dismissed the entire affair as "not important" and the same old tired nonsense". He thoroughly apologized after re- ceiving some scathing criticism, and proceeded to write a very lengthy and exhaustive article In his piece he addresses the long-standing accusation of being "too cozy with the game industry" faced by the press, which, he admits, operates at what would appear to out siders as "the brink of bribery". He has had to turn down or give away regular gifts from publishers, including things like a mini-surround system, a chess set and a trip to Disn- eyland On the other hand, though, he also says that "criticism of the gaming press is so com mon it can become white noise", and that valid complaints are mixed with "a sea of misreadings". He is confident that, counterbalancing the too many press releases mas- querading as news, there is a lot of good reporting, and he is hopeful that there will be more in the future Minor scandals about game journalists accepting gifts still surface fairly regularly. Among the most recent, publisher Ubisoft gifting a Nexus 7 tablet to all journalists present at an exclusive preview of their video game Watch Dogs Two years after Doritosgate, criticism of the gaming press gained extreme visibility with the very large consumer revolt GamerGate. 1:11 11더세 IS.GD/GGIN FO AIINIIN.AY ISED/ETHICFAIL I

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History of Ethics failures Unreliable Numbers

ETHIC FAIL -SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGNUMBER UNRELIABLE NUMBERS Consumers' trust is particularly valuable for game reviewers, and the gaming press has historically been short of it - and under constant suspicion of colluding with game pub- shers to inflate scores Sometimes, these suspicions have been very strongly fueled In 2005, gaming website GameSpy faced accusations of collusion for their review of Donkey Konga 2 -a rhythm game published by Nintendo, which at the time used GameSpy for its online services Freelancer Nick Marangos, the reviewer, revealed that GameSpy had heavily altered his work without his consent, making his review much more favourable towards the game and changing the final vote from a harsh 1.5/5 to a passing 3/5 The ensuing backlash prompted GameSpy to remove the review, and at the time the event had heavy publicity - including a 2 Penny Arcade strip What did I say? Did I say two point Pive? Because I Meant... Pour point Pive 2 A large game journalism scandal took place in 2004, with the release of Atari's 3 Driver 3 . While the game was critically panned for its derivative for- mula and, especially, for its buggy and unfinished state, its release was preced- ed by two near-perfectly scored 9/10 exclusive reviews on British magazines Xbox World and PSM2 - both belonging to Future Publishing 50 Accusations of corruption were also fueled by a forum post published before the reviews from a user claiming to work at an UK magazine. The poster claimed that, in the rush for exclusive first reviews, magazine editors were agreeing with game publishers to trade higher scores for earlier review copies. He provided several ex amples of games whose early reviews had higher scores, and stated that Atari was attempting to trade early review codes for Driver 3 in exchange for a score of at least 9/10, but the unfinished version of the game being offered to reviewers wasn't up to expectations In the huge uproar that ensued, Future's official forums heavily censored discussion of this topic. Eventually, Future deputy editor Nick Ellis responded on the forums, denying all accusations of bribery but admitting that the reviews were based on an unfinished version of the game, and on Atari's promise that the bugs would have been fixed before release EDG Future OF THEFT AUTO 4 Future publishing came under scrutiny again in 2011, when freelancer Richard Stanton held a casual Q&A session on Twitter Stanton, who worked for Future's 4 Edge Magazine, answered several questions about his experience in the game review business. He stated that game publishers indirectly control everything" in reviewing outlets, and admitted that reviews changed scores be- fore publication. He stated that the dodgiest publisher he had to work with was Rock star Games, and that Edge's review for their game 5 Grand Theft Auto 4 had the vote changed to a 10/10 by the magazine, from the reviewer's original 9/10 When his revelations started to be get attention, Stanton hurriedly deleted everything, and published an apology and retraction, where he stated he had written "in a moment of anger", and that he wished for his statements not to be reported as fact. Not having worked for Edge since, he has always refused to comment on this incident. I'lIA[ 서 IS.GD/GGINFO'l' Milld 서 IS.GD/ETHICFAIL

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History of Ethics failures Gamespot

THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM IS.GD/GGGAMESPOT KANE&LYNCH TERMINATION In 2007, senior editor Jeff Gerstmann was suddenly fired by Gamespot right after giving a mediocre score of 6.0 to videogame Kane & Lynch, at the time heavily advertised on the website This event sparked some heavy controversy, and got very large coverage. In 2012, Gerstmann confirmed that advertiser pressure following his reviews was the cause of his termination EFF GERSTMANN Senior Editor, Game Spot KANE& LYNCH AVI LABLE ANEALTNC Age of Conan MOVIE Check Gut this exclusive new video for Ag of Conan: Hyborae KANE& LYNCH ."11더체 IS.GD/GGINFO-JUINllll:HE IS.GD/ETHICFAIL·

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