Not especially. In the grand scheme of things, we’re talking about people writing about playthings. There are some issues in how people and companies are represented, and this is not a new thing. The concept of payola has riddled the game journalism industry since its inception, but it’s not earth shattering and nowadays, with an infinite number of sources to get your news and information from, it could be argued that it is LESS of an issue, because a dodgy, bug ridden game WILL get called out much more quickly that it would have done in the days of monthly-magazines-and-that’s-it.
But honestly… It’s just vidya games. Get some perspective.
And I say that as a HUGE fan of games for more than 30 years.
