Tag: ign
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The Plagiarizer
IGN recently fired an editor that covered Nintendo platforms and software, Filip Miucin, when it was discovered that he had plagiarized a review for Dead Cells from another video review. This situation was awful enough, but IGN’s managers did a good job of resolving it quickly, and I thought it could be an opportunity for…
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Humble Bundle Bought by IGN
Humble Bundle was bought out by IGN last week. The increasing reliance of writers on affiliate marketing deals is extremely bad. Most larger sites have some kind of wall between their editorial department and any advertising or affiliate linking, but it still looks wrong. I’ve done the same kind of linking myself, but never kept…
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Classic Nintendo
What happens when Nintendo launches a very successful and cheap console a few months before releasing the Switch hybrid console/handheld? Jose Otero: Nintendo will discontinue the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition and the last shipments will go out to retailers throughout this month. I bet that Nintendo looked at the Classic as a mistake. It was too cheap and…