Something that one of my colleagues brought up yesterday. Have we looked into GameStop and their connections with these people and companies? I mean their relationship with these people is more than normal and I am pretty sure their ethical practices with these companies is about as respectable as their business practices.
What made my colleague bring it up is the latest American Assassin's Creed commercial which advertised GameStop more than the actual game. I mean it is more than your average "preorder to get dlc hat" type of thing. In this one you get literally five seconds of actual game footage and the rest of it is just a giant GameStop add.
Video related is the commercial in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6wOz3a7xbo
Seeing that GameStop is one of the less reviewed groups of our digging it would also help to point out that GameInformer is also owned by them and ran a smear piece on us not once,
https://archive.is/C1T0D
Not twice,
https://archive.is/5OJfP
Not thrice,
https://archive.is/SQ5WH
But four times!
https://archive.is/0iG70
And by the looks of things, they have no intentions of stopping either. Now lets look at the authors of those glorified blog posts.
Andy McNamara:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/andy-mcnamara/6b/450/38b
https://twitter.com/GI_AndyMc/following
Is following, Stephen Totilo, Jason Schreier, Ben Kuchera, Patrick Klepek, Kyle Orland, Anita Sarkeesian, Kotaku, Brianna Wu, Just about every big video game corporation you can imagine.
Gee, it seems like almost the whole gang is here. I wonder where he gets all his opinions and facts from for his articles?
Now lets look at the 2nd Author, Still_Insane22 AKA Chris Mitchellye.
https://twitter.com/chrismitchellye/following
The only thing I can find out of place is he follows Sarah Nyberg..Why?
The fourth author is Matt Helgeson.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewhelgeson
https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson/following
And the first thing that smacks you in the face on the follow list.
BILL GATES. Also following is, Sam Biddle amongst others, but this guy does not even hold a candle to the third author is Jack Gardner.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jack-gardner/3a/788/b19
https://twitter.com/Riverboatjack/following
He is following Mint Princess, Randi Harper, Patrick Klepek, Jimmy Wales, Brianna Wu's private account, Anthony Burch, Ian Miles Cheong, Kate Edwards (I kid you not), Patricia Hernandez, Leigh Alexander, Alex Lifschitz (What even?), Nathan Grayson, Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkeesian AND Josh McInjosh, kyle pulver, IndieCade (Really), Mighty No. 9 (lol), Rami Ismail, Stephen Totilo, Zoe Quinn (And this follow is FAR longer ago than the others), Ben Kuchera, Machinima, Gamasutra Jobs, Gamasutra, Double Fine, Polygon, Destructoid, Chris Kluwe, The Yogscast, Phil Fish, Time Schafer as well as tons of rainbow haired SJWs and more goony beard men than you can shake a katana at and just about every big video game company you can imagine.
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I have to actually admit. I am STUNNED at the pure insanity of it all. Never before have I seen THAT MUCH collusion in a single follow list. The whole clique is practically there.
There is without a doubt something doing down within GameStop and GameInformer.