@OP
The overly praising and the overly criticizing articles used to be spread evenly between PS, Xbox, Nintendo etc. but after the PS and Nintendo teams left (reportedly because they had enough of some paid articles and restrictions on what to write) I have to agree with you that lately their journalism has been a little skewed.
IGN has had some of the same articles returning again and again the past few weeks dooming PS 1st party ("It's been a bad month for fans of Sony's Worldwide Studios"), the PS4 ("Regretting the PS4") and the Vita ("Is Borderlands Vita bad?"). This week the articles are titled "Something Weird Is Going On at Sony and Naughty Dog", "Is Borderlands 2 Vita in Trouble?", etc.
I haven't seen an article questioning the quality of anything Microsoft for a very long time as eg. "The Problem with Choice in Infamous".
Am I being delusional or could it be that it's possible to buy articles on IGN that give your competitor bad PR?
