Magazines Faking Game Reviews? 247
lunchlady doris writes: "With videogames becoming a huge business and magazines having large lead times, something has got to give if they want to compete with web sites. Planet GameCube has a story where it seems that some magazines have decided that eschewing actual journalism is the way to go, with both Extreme Gamer and Request Magazine having reviews for Nintendo's Eternal Darkness, a game that is currently incomplete and is only expected to arrive in stores at the end of June."
Magazines Faking Game Reviews? (Score:5, Funny)
And that's not all (Score:4, Funny)
It is believed a politician has lied
The bank doesn't really care about you
There is some rude stuff on the internet
Cigarettes are not good for you
Don't chew glass
Review vs Preview (Score:5, Funny)
p-review (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe the editor's keyboard got messed up, and the key "p" stopped functioning.
When Romero met Sally (Score:5, Funny)
Good Salad."
See, it's quite easy to fake a good game review.
Don't have much problem with this. . . (Score:3, Funny)
Jeez! I can flip to CNN for that!
The only difference between these guys and every second person on the web is that they're getting paid to do it.
Except, weirdly enough, in this case, I can't actually blame them.
--Game titles offer few surprises these days. Plus, the description and declared subject matter offered by the publishers to the reviewers sounds both sick and lame.
The only thing these reviewers did wrong is to not say up front that they were only looking at demos and press kit material. The fact of the matter is that they've told me all I want to know:
"Newsflash: Another cookie cutter over-violent FPS released by some company run either by (a)Sick juvenile twit programmers, or (b)Unimaginative corporate executives trying to make a buck by designing what their market analysts tell them is 'hip with the kids'."
Yep. Now that's reporting!
-Fantastic Lad
Great Idea! (Score:3, Funny)
I should use this approach on my thesis...to think of the time I've wasted waiting for data!
could be worse (Score:5, Funny)
and in old news (Score:1, Funny)
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Cigarettes are not good for you ? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:When Romero met Sally (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Full review after 3 hours of playing (Score:2, Funny)
I would guess your name is Czech, so my best guess at the pronunciation would be:
FRAHN-teh-shehk FYU-ka
I'm almost positive as to the first one, but the last thing could be FU-ka, FYU-ka, or maybe even something I didn't anticipate. Tell me how close I got.
Terry