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Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: More Insight From the Corporate Sphere

It is said that you should never look a gift horse in the mouth — but if you choose to get your news from the same equine orifice, you might want to check the animal’s pedigree. That’s what GameSetWatch did in November 2006, when it noticed that PlayStation-friendly blog ThreeSpeech was a “semi-official” media outlet, and [...]

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Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Sponsored Sites That Trump Traditional Journalism

Aside from the occasional, unintentional leak, publicists basically control games journalism as we know it today. They can’t tell us how to think or stop us from criticizing their games, but to a large degree, they determine who gets what and goes where when they please. How?

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Metacritic Strikes Again

Back in March, we decried the way percentile ranking sites like Metacritic have permeated gaming culture, explained that we might be better off reading review text rather than paying attention to a suspicious scoring system, and suggested that gamers “just leave Metacritic to the suits” who use such digits to appeal to investors. But the [...]

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PS3 Owners to Attend Press Events From the Comfort of Home

For the attending journalists, press events are a blast, filled with free food, first looks at the hottest games, and an ocean of PR spin in which to blissfully sink or frantically attempt to swim — but as a mere member of the gaming audience, you typically have to wait for your news until the [...]

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First MGS4 Review Garners 10/10 From OPM UK — And So, It Begins

Reader paul_war at the N4G forums decided to share his copy of the UK Official Playstation Magazine with the world today, including scans and the all-important score for the publication’s exclusive review of Metal Gear Solid 4. Tired of the GTA IV scoring dispute? You might want to duck and cover — this one’s [...]

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