[lelanthran]

Yeah, agreed.

The first name in that list is a guy who gave great reviews of a game by a developer who was sleeping with him.

Of course, due to one (or both? I forget which) of them being married, of course that fact had to be a secret.

In any other publication, the author's sexual liasons with the subject of the piece is considered a clear conflict of interest. Not so in gaming, it appeared.

[pr0zac]

What, there are still people that believe this? That Nathan Grayson never wrote reviews on any game by Zoe Quinn is easily verifiable, like you can just go look at the webpage. The claim has had zero veracity for years, that its false is widely known and documented, theres multiple Wikipedia articles discussing how and why its wrong.

I don't think I've ever read an article on Kotaku, I never read any games news and barely even play them anymore other than occasional Doom Eternal to blow off steam. But I know Grayson and Quinn's names because of how widely and loudly this argument getting disproved was.

I'm honestly kind of amazed to see someone still claiming this. Like I'm back editing more stuff into this because my brain is so confused and still thinking about it.

[Chris2048]

Review? No. But possibly "positive coverage"-> https://archive.ph/LXLli

The top screenshot comes from DQ, and the post lists it as a "standout".

[pr0zac]

I hate that I spent the time to check but this was posted a few months before Grayson and Quinn were together. Even if it weren't its really not much of a smoking gun.

[hightrix]

Wow! I thought you were joking but the first name is the dude at the center of what started “gamergate” and everything that followed it.

Thanks for pointing that out.

This site is just another in a long list of game journalism sites that is worthless.

[pr0zac]

How are there still people that believe this? I seriously thought the claims about Grayson were so widely discredited that even the people still saying gamergate is about "ethics in journalism" stopped making them because it was so embarrassing. Like its obviously not true, go look at the Kotaku website, he never wrote any reviews about Quinn's games, it takes like 30 seconds to check.

[DonHopkins]

No, they didn't stop, actually. Even here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38154072

[ajmurmann]

I thought a deranged online mob started Gamergate.

[zo1]

I recall a lot of it was driven by Kotaku, as well as the whole gang of cancel-culture twitter journalists.

It may be wrong, or right, but that is the narrative in my head around this. So it's probably the same in a lot of other disgruntled peoples' minds.

[ajmurmann]

Kotaku had the wrong author write a review of a niche video game that nobody cared about. Gamergate was started by people who thought something totally unimportant like that was reason to send death threads to people.

[teh64]

Could you post a link to this review? I would like to verify this information.