Eurogamer Scandal

Eurogamer is facing outrage over allegations that they gave a negative review to Darkfall Online without giving the game a chance.

Darkfall Online claims - and has activity logs from their servers - that Eurogamer's Editor spent 2 minutes in the game's startup menu but didn't actually play. A second member of Eurogamer spent 2 hours and 33 minutes playing during which he constantly asked other players "how do I cast spells...help" and "this game is awful".

The allegations are disturbing if true, game critics have great influence over what players decide to buy. A negative bias by an individual reviewer would cost a game developer and undermine the credibility of game critics eerywhere.

Darkfall online currently seems to be in the right, they've offered to fly Eurogamer's IT techs over to Darkfall to inspect their logs and verify their claims but have been refused. Further compounding Eurogamer's problems is the fact that the biased reviewer, Ed Zitron, has been accused of simmilar things in the past.