why is it legal? Because there's no law against it? What are you going to do, arrest IGN? ;)
It's just an agreement for ADVANCE review. If you don't like the term of the agreement, don't do the advance review.
I remembered IGN turned out its advance review for "Escape from Bug Island" due to the fact the game sucked. I don't remember anybody talking about that.
Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.
KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
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