I've checked the database for the poll results. Sadly, the time at which the poll is submitted is not recorded in the DB so I can't see if there's patterns of consecutive votes for the same answer in a short period of time. It is evident that there's been some tampering of the results (on both sides, to quote an asshole I know), the number of votes alone shows that.

What is available though is the userid of the person who voted which means that one way is purging the results from the inflated votes would be to delete the votes from non-users since while I'm still shocked that some people are pathetic enough to spam the votes by IP swapping, I highly doubt we've had people create alt accounts for that purpose.

In the end though, this is Machina's tournament so I'll leave the decision up to him on how to go forward.

Imagine how sad one must be to actually feel so butthurt at the possibility that his favourite company might not win and resort to cheating. That guy is on this site right now, lurking, perhaps fully participating.

It didn't look organic. As I observed it, it was about 1 minute 1 vote. He was stupid to automate it if he did.

Man some people are pathetic...

At least vote for the company that made the better PS4 exclusive, lmao.

Seriously though, to whoever cheated, do you really have nothing better to do in your life that you thought cheating in some random poll on the internet to make a company win that likely doesn't know you exist was the best thing you could do in your spare time?

If you don't like Nintendo, or maybe you think Horizon/Killzone is an amazing game, then cool, but it's not like them losing on some trivial contest invalidates your ability to enjoy those games to the fullest.

Like mZuzek said, the top two companies move on anyways, so its not like cheating would actually do anything, now you made it even less likely for them to win, so good job, lmao.

Also, Persona 5 > Horizon, could've at least rigged those votes for Atlus, smh (I'm kidding, but seriously, get a hobby).

idc if I get banned for this btw, it just amazes me how absolutely pathetic some people's lives are to do something low for something so trivial.

Controversy notwithstanding, it would be great if more people posted about their picks. We have ~400 votes and only 15 posts identifying a pick. Make yourself heard!

Sure, voted for NIntendo of course

I am really sorry for Rockstar and Level 5 but love the Zelda franchise since i was like 6 or 7 years old so Nintendo for the win . :p

I voted for a company starting with an N and ending with a intendo.

Horizon is definitely the best PS4 exclusive of last year. It doesn't matter though, since we're talking developers here and Guerilla made the phenomenal Killzone 2 and 3.