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Credits to: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK
1) Developer doesn't say anything about new game
If a headline contains the words 'developer', 'tight-lipped' and 'secret project', then you can pretty much guarantee that the accompanying 'news' will have all the illuminating qualities of a black hole. Rather than read any such story, we generally find it more productive to sit in a darkened room and have a wank about Shenmue 3 instead.
2) Development studio hiring people to make some games
Secrets of being a video-game journalist #067: If there's bugger all proper news about, just check out some developer sites, report on their job vacancies and pad the resulting story out with some safe speculation. Naughty Dog looking for an environment artist with experience in creating plants, shrubs and vines? Then clearly development of Uncharted 3 is underway and the game will be set in environments that feature flora. Like a jungle. Or a forest. Or pretty much anywhere that hasn't been rendered completely dead by a nuclear holocaust.
See? Making up news is easy.
3) Analyst makes some stuff up about the future
As far as we can tell, the only thing that separates an analyst from a gypsy is a suit. Unless you know for certain that the analyst in question is in possession of a fully operational time-machine, then what they are saying should be treated as a work of fiction. And if you like fiction, we'd suggest you go buy a book instead. Just make sure it's not written by Michael Pachter.
4) "New game is going to be amazing", says man with vested interest in game's success
Of course it is. No developer or publisher is going to come out and say on record that their game is shaping up like a stinking barrel of monkey stools. Neither are they going to admit that the three-year long project they've poured an unhealthy amount of man hours into and has damned near cost them their marriage as well as their sanity is actually not as good as other similar games out there but it's at least going to be a solid six or seven. We're grateful for the blatantly biased insight, but we'll continue to reserve judgement on a game's awesomeness until, you know, we've actually played it for ourselves.
5) Game scheduled for impending release has 'gone gold'
Alternative headline for this could would be 'Game being released soon is not delayed'. If a game is down to be released at a specified date in the near future, we'll just assume that everything's going according to plan unless we hear something to the contrary. A game being delayed is news. A game being not delayed is not news.
6) Developer working on new unannounced project
No shit. When one game gets pushed out the door we always figured that the development team just sat around sleeping and playing waste-bin basketball until the money ran out. Apparently not. Perhaps being a developer isn't as easy as we imagined.
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