Who Stands Up For The Little Guy? Some Thoughts on the IGN Dead Cells Debacle

Roxanne: At this point everyone should have heard of the Dead Cells plagiarism brouhaha, and the extreme foot-in-mouth syndrome exhibited by former IGN editor Filip Miucin in his “apology” video. Plagiarism’s prevalence in games press is due to the different levels of coverage that games get across different forms of media.

[Hardiman]

IGN steps in it again , god plagiarizing a game review no less! Just last night I was helping my 14 year old with his ELA homework and it focused on plagiarism.

[zodiac909]

IGN is a joke

[AK91]

Just more proof that game journalism is on its way out.

[TekoIie]

A lot of his plagiarism was on his personal Youtube channel too. Are Youtubers on the way out as well?

[ThatDudeMunkee]

Care to tell me how those of us that actually value our integrity as writers and members of the community are on our way out? Sure, some of the big dogs are screwing up, but that doesn't mean all of us are actually on our way out. It leaves those of us who are the smaller guys, the ones continually striving to do the right thing, a lot of room to grow.

[Juiceid]

Only sorry he got caught

[ThatDudeMunkee]

Yup. Once a fraud, always a fraud. I stream a good chunk of the games I review even though the publishers would probably like their reviews sooner than later. I'd rather my viewers see the transparency in the content I create.

[quent]

Douche Canoe