Courtesy of kotaku:

http://kotaku.com/342519/3-companies-bar-egm-from-coverage-following-poor-reviews

"editor Dan Hsu has named three companies that, thanks to negative reviews coverage, have stopped submitting products to the magazine. Those he names are Ubisoft, Sony's sports game division and Midway's Mortal Kombat team."

 There's certaintly more than enough rumblings about oversized influences by companies to manipulate ratings but that they're not even gonna bother is interesting.  My opinion of EGM is a bit higher that they're not giving in like I'm sure many other places are.

Oh if only there's still much of a point to reading print magazines, I may actually resubscribe... 

Ubisoft really needs to get their act together, they're starting to become the next EA.

 I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they wanted to be.

In terms of game quality, I mean.

In terms of profit, they're doing very well.

It's so sad that Ubisoft, who turned out some great games, like Rayman 2, and Midway, whose early Mortal Kombat games were awesome, have fallen this far.

I'm not surprised by Ubisoft. EGM was really panning Assassin's Creed. I bet that didn't make Ubi very pleased.

I'm surprised EGM actually made this public. Maybe they're trying to shame the companies but it could backfire and all 3 could boycott EGM from exclusive first looks, previews, etc. In my opinion EGM needs EA, Ubisoft, and Midway far more than they need it.  There are hundreds of websites and dozens of magazines that basically do what EGM does.

On a side note EGM has actually done this in the past (Capcom, Acclaim, and others have at times threatened to do the same thing) but it was when their magazine was far more important because there weren't the gaming websites like we have now.

Sounds like a lot of hoopla.

Eeep! Hopefully the Gamespot fallout will discourage this kind of shit.. Its really great that companies are being called out on this and they are learning that gamers will not stand for it.

I hate it when companies do this. Doesn't suprise me though. Still haven't gone back to gamespot since that happened.