Casamassina married to Golin Harris VP

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MEKsLP said:

Nintendownsmii said:

Soriku said:

VGMWatch tonight decided to spill the not-so-breaking news that Matt Casamassina, long-time editor-in-chief of the IGN Nintendo Team, is married to Edie Kissko. This is, in these times of games journalism head-scratching, a bit interesting. Kissko is the vice president of Golin Harris, which also happens to be Nintendo's PR firm.

I see no conflict of interest here since he is the Editor-in-Chief of the IGN NINTENDO team.

If anything that would make it worse as he could utilize a site which is suppose to be non-bias to help support and promote the company his wife works for. Personally I don't see it as a big deal and haven't really noticed a change in consistancy of IGN Nintendo over the years aside from different styles of writers being introduced...but still it is a conflict of interest.

IGN's average for Wii reviews vs the average game review site would seem to dispute that claim.