The integrity of Video Games journalists seems like a fallacy to many. Especially after the numerous incidents that actually does throw any integrity in the industry out the window. Dorito-Gate. Say that one phrase to any games mediaperson and they will know exactly who and what went wrong in the industry.
The now infamous image taken from Geoff Keighley’s interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rbU0mzoMyw
This image spread like wild-fire through the games journalism world, igniting a fire in journalist for Eurogamer, Rab Florence who calls it the most tragically important image in the industry today. The opinions sway, Venturebeat pointing out that some even find video games journalists with integrity are an anomaly. Following Florence’s explosion, many other journalists flocked to get their opinion on the matter heard too; some outraged at Florence’s opinion and defending the already ruptured integrity of video games journalists. However for the most unbiased and rational coverage of the event, Kotaku is the seemingly most reliable avenue.
Alongside the fiasco of Dorito-gate, at the same time and location as Dorito-gate, was the ‘journo-ps3’ incident. The integrity of video games journalists was again tested, when during reveal conferences at the media event, developers asked their audience to tweet out their game in a hashtag for the chance to win a PS3.
If that wasn’t enough, when journalist Jeff Gerstman didn’t give a game plastered over his employer’s website a good review, he mysteriously disappeared from employment “for reasons unrelated to his review of” said game.
It’s enough gossip on the industry to have it completely shut down. But the fact that it hasn’t just proves that there must be some integrity somewhere… maybe.
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