3 companies bar EGM from coverage after bad reviews

Mai Valentine

Mai Valentine

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http://kotaku.com/342519/3-companies-bar-egm-from-coverage-following-poor-reviews

In his editorial column in the latest issue of EGM, editor Dan Hsu has named three companies that, thanks to negative reviews coverage, have stopped submitting products to the magazine. Those he names are Ubisoft, Sony's sports game division and Midway's Mortal Kombat team. While there's always been a healthy dose of scepticism surrounding advertiser and publisher pressure on gaming press (particularly in light of recent events), I can't remember the last time a major commercial publication came out and publicly named names like this. Bravo, Dan.
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What a bunch of moron companies. "We make bad games, so we'll blame EGM."
 
Dan Hsu? I thought he was one of the better game reviewers. However, those companies blaming the magazines is just stupid.
 
Publishers really need to take responsibility for their games..not take it out on magazines and websites. I wonder how long stuff like this has been going on for?
 
I agree, it is pretty stupid and they should take responsibility for the sucky games they make. In my opinion though, Sega Sports has been down ever since ESPN NFL 2K5...and the only UbiSoft games I've enjoyed the most were Prince of Persia..Mortal Kombat just starts to get redundant after a while with making the same game over and over, with just slightly better graphics and more characters.
 
Well, I'm happy they're not letting advertisers influence their reviews, and they're being up-front, about all the corruption ad companies make, on review sites.
 
That's kind of funny. EGM will still review their game, they'll just have to wait for the retail release to do it. It's just a bunch of bad press for the companies that refuse to give EGM their games for review, makes it look like they can't take a little criticism here and there.
 
stealth toilet said:
That's kind of funny. EGM will still review their game, they'll just have to wait for the retail release to do it. It's just a bunch of bad press for the companies that refuse to give EGM their games for review, makes it look like they can't take a little criticism here and there.
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Yeah, exactly.
 
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