I know but it is the same thing every generation,  the 6.5 for Ratchet and clank from Gamespot, the 7 for Killzone 2 from Edge?  etc...  Are some reviewers biased? Ofcourse all reviewers are biased their is not such thing as a neutral gamer/reviewer.  Looking so much into all this reviewers/moneyhatted or not is just a waste of your life, enjoy games please..

Again, put the tinfoil hats back on the shelf. This is standard business with any kind of company selling reviews/content. They need to sell advertising to pay for the people and website. Nothing new here.

I think it has been like this for a while.

That's just M$ doing their job ;)

ign was pro ps4, i guess that increased the price microsoft was willing to pay.
if i were ign i'd be xbox biased from now on, and then start to talk with sony again :D

I can see an Xbox One ad as I type this... Doesn't really mean anything.


Focused ads on gaming sites for gaming consoles out of the ordinary? No.

yea, I would say that is a good discription of how their reviews go.

Its just far easier for any given Xbox game to get an acclaimed score then it is for PS titles. I believe they even joke about it in the podcasts every so often, that they might have rated an exclusive just a tad too high after the hype died.

Just listen to how ridiculous that sounds. Anything below a 6 in the gaming world might as well be a zero. Why would MS pay for that?

I don't trust IGN reviews but not because I think they are paid off. Its not bought IMO, they are just one of those review sites who you will never see score too far outside of the consensus, especially when the game is massively hyped. I stopped trusting them after the GTA IV perfect score review in 2008.

Means about as much as Sony giving away tons of free consoles and games to journalists: nothing at all, unless it influences review scores.

So far it doesn't seem to be. But it will be easier to guage once more reviews roll in.

Yeah man. MS is evil.