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How Sloppy, Biased Video Games Reporting Almost Destroyed a CEO

See how the lies of Ben Kuchera almost destroyed an innocent mans career.

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MadLad3520d ago

It's Breitbart.com . . .
Take with a mountain of salt, and be sure that there's some sort of agenda/money involved with the article.
Just a warning.

radler3520d ago

It's Ben Kuchera, the guy's a complete scumbag and sleaze ball. At this point I'm no longer surprised with how much of a terrible person he is.

cleft53520d ago

There are so many people claiming that what is happening to Zoey Quinn is only happening because she is a woman. They claim that this would never happen to a man and that if it was a guy doing something like this people would applaud him. Yet this is hard proof, that stuff like this does happen to men and that when it happens they are harassed and targeted just like Zoey Quinn and that Anita chick was.

The difference, major one at that, is that Zoey and Anita got harassed by the masses as a result of their proven behavior and stupidity. This guy got targeted by a "Games Journalist" who chose not to do an ounce of actual investigating to verify the facts. Basically, the guy got lynched by the gaming media and then a small number of morons made threats (that included rape and sodomy of his son) on his life, his family, and attempted to ruin his career. All over something that had been proven to be a lie. Yet people actually defend "Game Journalist" like this Ben guy.

Wake up people, we as gamers need to hold game journalist to higher standards and if they fail to meet those standards we need to call them out on it. There is no way that we can just sit by and idly allow this crap to continue. Game journalists are answerable to gamers. If you don't think that is the case just look at the Microsoft situation, the company took a path we didn't like and we made them be accountable and change their course. If we as "gamers" can do that to a billion dollar corporation, we can certainly hold game journalist to higher standards.

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Eonjay3520d ago (Edited 3520d ago )

Polygon... look. No one believes that the Ben is innocent. They see the type of establishment (a sub par gaming journal) and can extrapolate that shady people run shady organizations.

Ben Kuchera is Sloppy, Biased Video Game Reporting incarnate.

Mega243520d ago

This people are bad, trying to force political views on gamers, Ben Kuchera is a cancerous mole. Needs to be destroyed (career wise).

XanderZane3520d ago

Sounds like Kuchera & Wardell are both scumbags. These guys are Brits? i thought they had more class then that (or so they tell us.).

Gore-Content3520d ago (Edited 3520d ago )

Classic polygon right here. Standing ovations!

iTechHeads3520d ago

How does Ben Kuchera still have a job?

InTheLab3520d ago

Because he's at Polygon and they have zero integrity. Even if they did fire him, he'd land right on his feet at Kotaku or some other scumbag site.

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Two Decades Later, the Original Splinter Cell is Still a Masterpiece

They don't make games like this anymore.

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vgvill1d 21h ago

Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.

Jingsing1d 18h ago (Edited 1d 18h ago )

Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.

TheProfessional1d 13h ago (Edited 1d 13h ago )

You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.

rlow11d 14h ago

I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.

vgvill1d 12h ago

They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.

PrecursorOrb1d 12h ago

Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company

Chocoburger1d 5h ago (Edited 1d 5h ago )

Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.

Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!

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How EA & Xbox Are Defining Gaming's Bleak Future

Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.

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Profchaos1d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.

Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.

If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard

As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights

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XCOM's Jake Solomon Q&A - Building a Narrative-Driven Life Sim Game at Midsummer Studios

XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.

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