Melan

The game companies used to be good at controlling the small number of Magazines that offered reviews. Now, with so many review sites, they have changed strategies. I am not sure that the article really reflects the true root of mediocrity here. Were publishers ever willing to risk divisive artistic games? At least now, there is a fact-check against pure shilling. Sounds more like a critic raging against the the dilution of his craft. Point taken about the poor deals given to developers over t...

some are being ruined, seen loads of reviews where the first bits of text read 'i dont like this type of game so i've given it a low score' so if a games company only see's the score then that game is likely to get binned.

Speaking of IGN, holy crap is this terrible: http://corp.ign.com/