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Deano7788

It was actually their Nintendo editor.

Retr0gamer

Deano7788 wrote: »

It was actually their Nintendo editor.

Ouch. Someone might be getting the American equivalent of a P45.

Varik

IGN should know the rules, they're only allowed to "plagiarise" publisher press releases and pass them off as articles.

kunst nugget

Varik wrote: »

IGN should know the rules, they're only allowed to "plagiarise" publisher press releases and pass them off as articles.

Could they have both been paraphrasing the same press release?

Retr0gamer

kunst nugget wrote: »

Could they have both been paraphrasing the same press release?

The fact that it's been taken down shows a bit of admission of guilt.

ERG89

Kinda shows how cliched reviews are now these days. I bet every review uses Metroidvania, procedurely generated, rogue like, f*ck it I'll throw in souls like too.
I've never played it but I bet I could still not play it and throw together a review which would blend in with the rest.

Jerichoholic

The most shocking thing about it is that IGN actually reviewed a game for a change.

Zero-Cool

And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for that pesky intro HEEEYYYYY YYYOOOOOO WADDDUPPP IGN ISSS YO BOY BACK AGAIN SO SMASH THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUTTON TO KEEP IT LIT.

Jerichoholic

Zero-Cool wrote: »

And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for that pesky intro HEEEYYYYY YYYOOOOOO WADDDUPPP IGN ISSS YO BOY BACK AGAIN SO SMASH THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUTTON TO KEEP IT LIT.

What? He didn't use the word "guys"?

CastorTroy

Fillip has been fired

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1026972177881427969?s=19

FAILSAFE 00

He's been banished from IGN and forever known in the statement and beyond as "the writer"

Canis Lupus

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

He's been banished from IGN and forever known in the statement and beyond as "the writer"

I found that a bit strange they didn't name him.

Varik

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I found that a bit strange they didn't name him.

Maybe could be taken as libel if they did.

Stone Deaf 4evr

You'd have to wonder how in his right mind did he think that it was a good idea to try and do that? he must have know that the blowback was going to be severe?

CastorTroy

I thought the game had an embargo, so how did the other guy post his review before ign?

TitianGerm

CastorTroy wrote: »

I thought the game had an embargo, so how did the other guy post his review before ign?

How did it have an embargo? Has it not been out on early access for ages?

ERG89

TitianGerm wrote:

How did it have an embargo? Has it not been out on early access for ages?

Just does. For instance, Monster Hunter World on PC had an embargo too even though it released back in January on consoles.

johnny_ultimate

Publications could be given an embargo for the final 1.0 release when they’re provided with a review copy - and the publication may be happy to wait for the ‘final product’ before giving it a proper critical going over. A YouTuber who has the Early Access game could just review it whenever they want. There’s also IIRC been cases where publishers actually want the game reviewed by YouTubers and players first.

Notorious

The Kotaku article about the story includes evidence (found by another source), of even more plagarism before he joined IGN. They also have no issue with naming him.

Article here.

Zero-Cool

Notorious wrote: »

The Kotaku article about the story includes evidence (found by another source), of even more plagarism before he joined IGN. They also have no issue with naming him.

Article here.

Reading the first comparison, I thought it might be just a coincidence and lousy he got fired for it. By the time I got to the end, I was thinking it was well justified. Balls on that guy!

ERG89

https://twitter.com/emuparadise/status/1027262068569845760?s=19

Nintendo slowly working their way through Rom sites

Kiith

And 10 more will pop up tomorrow. Maybe setup a service to get these games on the Switch, at a reasonable price, and some people might stop having to resort to piracy.

Retr0gamer

There's also the issue of licensed games that will never see release again. Emulation is what will keep them alive.

RasTa

I see Sony have a new PS out for their 500m consoles sold overall. Nothing special just a 2TD HD.

Who will hit 1 billion first? Sony or Nintendo?

wheresmahbombs

Kiith wrote: »

And 10 more will pop up tomorrow. Maybe setup a service to get these games on the Switch, at a reasonable price, and some people might stop having to resort to piracy.

Especially with the ridiculous prices of some of the older games.

Gunmonkey

Of all the special edition PS4's they have put out, that one is the nicest IMO. But at £449 (prob north of €500 for us) its gonna cost a fairly pretty penny....

Potential-Monke

I'm the opposite. It looks like it will be nice, but the translucent cover ruins it imo. You can't really tell by the picture, but once you start seeing the internals, it doesn't look as good.

And it will be Sony to hit the 1 Billion first. MS stopped releasing their sales figures because they got lapped by Sony, and they're sticking with not releasing the figures, instead using different metrics to measure success.

Varik

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I'm the opposite. It looks like it will be nice, but the translucent cover ruins it imo. You can't really tell by the picture, but once you start seeing the internals, it doesn't look as good.

And it will be Sony to hit the 1 Billion first. MS stopped releasing their sales figures because they got lapped by Sony, and they're sticking with not releasing the figures, instead using different metrics to measure success.

It's over all their consoles, Sony on 525m, MS on what 140m.

Seems Nintendo is 580-590m from everything.

Don't think things will stay the way the are for consoles long enough for anyone to hit 1b with traditional consoles, if they did 100m a generation that's a long time.

CastorTroy

THQ Nordic have acquired the rights to Timesplitters and Second Sight. Remasters incoming?

Retr0gamer

Never got the appeal of Timesplitters. I somewhat enjoyed the multiplayer of TS2 but it felt like a cut down Unreal Tournament and not a patch on what was happening on PC at the time. The single player wasn't great either.