Daemon Hatfield is Sauron, and IGN is under siege

[theRepublic]

Interesting read, however, I think this person gives far too much credit to IGN.

I still believe them to be one of the best content providers [of gaming news] in that regard. But they are, in my opinion, in danger of treading down a dark path which will change them irrevocably for the worse.

I think they have already gone down that path, and have been for at least a year now. For example, Casamassina lost all journalistic integrity when he said he was going to give Wii Music a bad review well before he actually reviewed the game.

Casamassina's and Harris's love and respect for Nintendo is legendary, and while most Nintendo fans (while not most Nintendo fanboys) can accept their criticisms as valid, Hatfield's are not only baseless but vulgar. Both Matt and Craig's articles were well articulated with reasoning and were altruistic in nature. Hatfield's was just an outright slam, and the irony is that while Matt and Craig both penned articles which, in my opinion, strengthened the argument against Nintendo, Hatfield merely gave fuel to those who say IGN is a biased sham of a website with no credibility regarding Nintendo criticism.

It is true that these two are nowhere near as bad as Hatfield, but that doesn't mean they are completely innocent either. I have heard plenty of ridiculous stuff in their podcasts, and let's not forget who wrote that silly 'Nintendo is lazy and you don't care' article (it was Casamassina).