Two things:

It is not on her for sleeping with people, but more so the professionals that would cater towards her if she did in fact sleep with them.

It is on her if she is using her current influence to take down any form of discussion from happening (However this one seems to now have backfired on her).

(I typically avoid Social Justice threads, but I wanted to help the out the civil part of the community that exists in VGC)

I'm just going to say that I don't like cheating, and it makes me sad to consider it commonplace in society :(

as a grown woman she is free to have a sexual relationship with whoever she likes (as long as that desire is mutual) and I doubt any of the influence she could have that way (intended or not) is enough to sway the general reception of her game - a few users of particular sites might want to reconsider their prefered game impression source though

in my opinion this is not a scandal and not something she should be attacked for, a scandal would be if (for example) ea sended "escorts" to all major game review sources to promote their games

I'm married and love my wife and woman in general and agree she have a right to be slut as men of being womanizer. And both should be regarded the same. But I'm just tired of the double standards and favouring towards minorities, as if every White male with decent job have a debt to humanity against all the "crimes" of the past.
And there is a difference between proof and circunstancial evidence.
So if there is evidence of she cheating with 5 people from the industry and those 5 have gave her special treatment and/or above ratings (far from the other reviewers) then the 6 involved must be brought under scrutiny. The boyfriend should also be called to justice for the exposition and breaking individual rights to privacy. And if proved he lied also answer for slander.
But the namecalling have been preposterous. Just because pleope want this discussed and investigated that doesn't make the person mysoginistic. To me this is no different than paid review.

Haven't seen this many bans in a thread in a loooong time.

On the one hand, I'm not satisfied there's enough evidence here to prove sexual bribery took place, but on the other, the bar is so pathetically low in video game journalism that it wouldn't surprise me at all if it occurred.

vivster said: And all the feminists be like

Welll the radicial ones at any rate. I really hate how feminism gets a bad name these days because of those people.

Well if she wanted more publicity for her game.... job accomplished!

Even when she's in a committed relationship and one of the men she sleeps with is married?

Even then, it's a matter for her and her partner to sort out until she starts using it to get positive publicity on her game. Whether it has any impact isn't really relevant. It's a shitty and unethical thing to do. To be honest, it's more on the journalists than on her. They're the ones who reported this without declaring the pretty important fact that they're personally invested in the subject of their articles.

While i agree with you about not basing judgement about other people on heresay without having any facts, i need to point out that calling people "lonley perverts" and accusing them of "baseless shaming" in the same post is kinda counterproductive.

Oh Kotaku. The McDonalds of game journalism continues to entertain in unintended ways.