[Unofficial Rumour] World Exclusive: Durango unveiled

[toadslayer72]

Scoobes said:
Just to throw a spanner in the works of all these rumours being leaked:

http://x-surface.tumblr.com/

Some choice quotes:

"At 1:41am GMT today I sent out an email to a bunch of gaming sites claiming to be a Microsoft employee working on the new Xbox.

I made up every single word of it along with a couple of specs copied from other rumours that have been appearing on the Internet."

"Pocket-Lint.com were the first to run with the news, almost exactly one hour after saying “we have to make an effort to validate”; two hours before I got the chance to reply. It was posted with zero validation, no fact-checking, no source information. Just a simple email basically saying “I work for Microsoft - believe me?”."

"At the time of writing, my fake news is appearing on major sites such as:

Yahoo

CNET

Gizmodo

Venturebeat

Tech Digest

VG247

NowGamer

And many more. This Google search shows the global reach this non-news has been getting over the past 6 hours (at the time of writing)."

That is great. I agree with those who pointed out how easy it is for these rumors to copy each other. I can't believe that people accept the fact that they are similar as some sort of confirmation. All of this bickering for what is likely a bunch of made up shit, the internet is awesome.