Recently there's been a lot of discussion about the links between bloggers, vloggers, critics and games publishers. TPReview takes you through the processes behind securing games for review, advertising and press events in an attempt to make people better informed on what goes on behind the scenes.
Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.
Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."
Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.
This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.
I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.
Isnt videogamer one of the N4G owner run sites?
Seems to fit their MO to cut corners and push cheap dribble.
It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.
Game and advertising companies have been told to 'get their houses in order' and be more transparent about the presence of loot boxes in mobile titles.
"The freebies are difficult to deal with. It’s always nice to get some of that stuff (even if it often ends up being tat) but I’d feel very uncomfortable and have to refuse if it ever came across as a bribe. When reviewing games I’ve never given a second thought to whether or not I’ve had a special edition of it or a bottle opener with the game’s logo on, it’s not a consideration but when the gifts get out of hand most journalists have the willpower to take a step back and consider what they’re getting and why"
this confirms handouts to reviewers are a fact
so we just have to depend on the strong will of the journalists? the trends show very few have a strong enough integrity.