EGMR writes: "I’m sure you’re a PlayStation or Team Ico fan your depression might have reached somewhere near maximum when IGN appeared to confirm that The Last Guardian had been cancelled. IGN allegedly got this from one of its credible sources who had inside information at Sony. After the initial blow-up of this story, Sony’s Scott Rohde quickly moved to tweet that the news was false, which made the initial sad tears turn to angry tears directed at IGN – and rightfully so. This prompted IGN to issue a public apology for what had transpired. While we can all anxiously move on and wait for some kind of announcement from Sony, I feel that I’d like to talk about a few things relating to the issue and explain why I believe IGN were out of line, and talk about the implications of what happened."
journalism is broken because many sites only care about being first to break news/site traffic...IGN being one of the biggest sites around have the option to get in direct contact with publishers and etc to confirm info...It's sad when being first becomes more important than reporting 100% facts.
ign are arrogant and believe their shit don't stink...and show blatant biasness at times that you are left gobsmacked
journalists just need to be real gamers not show favouritism to one particular console and be fair ...and you will be everything ign isn't
Gamers could potentially learn a lesson as well, depending on how E3 turns out.
They had a leak and they went with it, period. I don't see anything wrong with what they did. If you find something wrong with what they did, then you find something wrong with all mainstream journalism. I find it funny N4G is posting about journalism ethics when you mods post the most flamebait, fanboy driven, non factual gaming websites journalism around. Preach to yourselves before you preach to IGN.
I see both sides, the way they worded the initial headline really caused all the trouble. Simply stating it was a report, or rumour would have stopped the whole thing from being blown out of proportion.
Either way, they apologised and that should be the end of it. Everyone makes mistakes and they obviously took for credit for theirs. Power to them.