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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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Page 2 of History of Ethics failures. Do note the name is what I'm calling it, the true name of the image series is not really known though I guess it could be Ethics Fail – Shady Game Journalism. This image contains details concerning reviewing publications giving high scores to low quality products and in one case, against the wishes of the reviewer himself.

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