I'm not on IGN's page, here. The game is a blast and looks very good! While the combat has a bit of a learning curve, once you get the hang of it, it's a lot of fun. Only gripe is the hand-holding platforming, but think of Remember Me as a child of Tomb Raider, Uncharted, and Mirror's Edge.........which is a good thing!

Some of my screens:

You really think journalists never get paid?

what about Mass Effect 3 ? when it came out, it was game of the years / generation whatever, then after people played it , was a huge backlash 

I review games for a gaming website and we have never received a cent from any publishers. I have the last of us media kit sitting at home waiting to be reviewed, I never received a cent from Sony. This childish notion is bullshit and needs to stop. 

I review games for a gaming website and we have never received a cent from any publishers. I have the last of us media kit sitting at home waiting to be reviewed, I never received a cent from Sony. This childish notion is bullshit and needs to stop.

Your site is not as big as IGN or Gamespot. You can't expect publishers to pay off every reviewer. Once your site have hundreds of thousands of followers, publishers will come for you.

Jeff Gerstmann (A well known reviewer) got fired from Gamespot after he gave Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (A shitty game) a bad review, because Eidos Interactive payed Gamespot to give the game a good score.

Is this notion bullshit now?

Is there any proof to this? I am just going by first hand information. When we contact publishers to review their games they want to see data about our website like page views per week and consumer integration with the site. Nothing at all about money.

Read my previous post again, there's proof in it.

Your post has zero proof. Here is what I found: 

The issue, Gerstmann claimed in a streaming interview, was that a new management team inexperienced in dealing with editorial groups, had come to power at Gamespot and overreacted to what Gerstmann describes as "publisher push-back." According to his recollection, Eidos threatened to pull ad revenue from Gamespot as a result of his review, and though this kind of thing is relatively common in games journalism, the nascent management team panicked and decided that Gerstmann was unreliable. "They felt they couldn't trust me in the role," Gerstmann said.

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So nothing about the reviewer receiving money. It was about ad revenue for the site as a whole. I rest my case.

Your post has zero proof. Here is what I found: 

The issue, Gerstmann claimed in a streaming interview, was that a new management team inexperienced in dealing with editorial groups, had come to power at Gamespot and overreacted to what Gerstmann describes as "publisher push-back." According to his recollection, Eidos threatened to pull ad revenue from Gamespot as a result of his review, and though this kind of thing is relatively common in games journalism, the nascent management team panicked and decided that Gerstmann was unreliable. "They felt they couldn't trust me in the role," Gerstmann said.

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So nothing about the reviewer receiving money. It was about ad revenue for the site as a whole. I rest my case.