Rumors were true: Joystiq is shut down [Updated with a full news story]

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Barozi said:

alternine said:
Looks like these game review sites are starting to go down 1 by 1. IMO this is a good thing. Maybe people will start to think for themselves on whether to purchase a game or not instead of letting someone do it for them.

Without demos, how?

So it's either watching muted gameplay videos or renting the game/playing it at a friend's, which can only be done a good bit after the game is released.

A review doe snot tell you if a game is good or not since that i subjective and opinionated and a review does not tell you if you will enjoy a game which is the point of playing games.