The trailblazing video game website Giant Bomb has faced significant staff departures, as owner Fandom claims the brand will undergo “strategic reset and realignment”.

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[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The ~2010's, official game review scandal which all big videogame influencers like IGN, G4tv, Gamespot etc... (this was before instagram and tiktok) got bribed by corporations so the aftermath of that was splintergroups of indie review sites like GiantBomb. And so let's plays got born. Still never trusting triple-A game marketing ever again

[–] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago

The ~2010’s, official game review scandal which all big videogame influencers like IGN, G4tv, Gamespot etc… (this was before instagram and tiktok) got bribed by corporations

Got any sources for that? Unless you think advertisement are bribes, this didn't happen.

Jeff was fired because he didn't want to change his low score for a Kane & Lynch game, after Gamespot was pressured by the publisher, who was running some huge ads on Gamespot. He also said that usually this doesn't happen, because the review side and marketing on these big sites are completely separate, and the reviewers don't hear of these complaints. In his case however, Gamespot had new execs, who got cold feet, and caved. They left shortly after.

I have never heard of anything else like this happening, except from angry fanboys, that think reviewers are on the take, when Zelda gets an 8.8.