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[–] Vladkar@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Their source is a reporter at Giant Bomb? GameSpot and Giant Bomb are owned by the same company.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have much faith in this remake, but citing the opinion of a guy who works for your sister company doesn't seem like proper journalism.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's terrible journalism. If you skimmed past the first couple short paragraphs, the quotes from Jeff Grub (their "source") read like he's an insider at Aspyr or Embracer. In reality, the article is just linking to a 1.5 hour news podcast and quoting the host. The article doesn't even try to summarize Jeff's basis for his opinion, and the only quote they have from an actual insider is, essentially, "no comment."

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I was real confused, I've not listened to the podcast but how would Jeff even know?

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are they? I know CBS used to own them both but GB got sold on a few years ago, around the time the Giant Bomb guys left (Vinny, Brad, Jeff Gerstmann, etc).

Either way, I'm confused as to how a simple guess from Grubb could be constituted as actual sourced news. What an odd article.

[–] Vladkar@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, they're both subsidiaries of Fandom

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Gaming journalism being an incestuous pit of incompetent buffoons? No way.