so as the tittle says, a prankster wanted to prove how gaming journalists are so he made a "rumor" about next gen hardware and emailed it to some websites, and what do you know? in a matter of hours they posted those "specs" online! the article is way to long to post here so ill just copy past a few things the prankster said
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.
This was a bit of an experiment to see just how easy it is to get a fake story taken seriously. And it is shockingly easy in the games industry.
He continues:
By 9:58am GMT, it was already ‘in the news’.
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?”.
I feel bad for lying, but it proves the point very well.
