G4 Goes Down, Internet Gets Excited

G4 Goes Down, Internet Gets Excited

wardrox|16 years ago|Culture

NG’s Sam "verygoodyear" takes a look at the controversy that never was

"On Friday morning, amongst all of the rumours G4, which had sourced the majority of the information, went down. Across the web, and possibly most notably on Twitter, playful speculation suggested that Activision had something to do with the downtime. Not many sites jumped on the story as most, like us, were keeping our eyes on the situation for more information.

UK based site CVG decided to run a story breaking news that the site was down and questioning whether it was a technical problem "or if there’s another explanation". That "other explanation" was the suggestion that Activision had brought the site down through legal means because of the revelations coming from G4’s "sources close to Activision". "

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