Bash IGN, ver. 2.1 (with all glitches intact)

[gekko]

Originally posted by Shadow Fox
I'm beginning to hate IGN for what they're doing now, and I've hoped you've noticed, too...

These guys have been holding E3 and Shoshinkai (Spaceworld) footage and screens for months now, and are JUST now releasing them. Why release something as new for January 2002 when it's really old (Metroid, Turok vids) from 2001? This makes my respect for this site even lower, even though their content is currently king-everyone goes there.

They've also been slowly trickling info back to the main page from insider's previous months and posting them as new stories again when $hit gets slow, so it seems like they're always "updated". And of course, there's the obvious twisting of the same info to make it more appealing for their respective sites (IGNxbox, IGNPs2, IGNcube), when there really is only one story (recent sales reports, multiplatform game announcements, and other status data)...

Wierder still is the fact that no other site has this "updated" info from more than 5-8 months ago. Was IGN the only online site that went to E3/Spaceworld backdoor conferences? Hell no. So where's the info? Think about it for a minute; something really fishy is going on.

I hope I'm not the only one who's noticed this. So defend or bash on in this thread!!!

-Official Ninja of GameTavern (and NDose)

Turok videos were released today. I would know because like IGN, I also get all of Acclaim's press stuff. It was released today. It was the movie from E3, yes, but just because it is shown at E3 doesn't mean it can be released. Acclaim had people making sure no one got any pics of video of the Turok screen. And they haven't published any old Metroid stuff. That was all recent releases too.

And everyone who sees info in the backdoor confrences do sign agreements. They'll recieve huge fines if they tell you the info. They know, and they know because Nintendo needs them for input. You know how many places knew about Mario Sunshine before Spaceworld? I know over 20. Yet, nothing was released. Hell, look at Magazines. They get new media, or announcements way in advance. If EGM is going to get an exclusive on say, Xbox, you know they saw that Xbox over a month in advance so they could get everything ready, and get the mag published.

IGN would give you the info if they could. But since they can't, don't bitch. You weren't supposed to see the few screens from Turok that you did until now.