Game Site Space For $$

Wagner James Au writes "Thought y'all would be interested in part two of my 'Preview Ho' series for Kotaku -- in it, a media buyer tells me how Gamespot and Gamespy sells editorial space on their sites to big publishers for thousands of dollars. In other words, the games you see on the front pages of those sites are often there because publishers paid for that privilege. In their defense, Gamespy's Vice President of Content Publishing tells me the practice is 'pretty common both in print and online'." Nothing surprising here, but it's interesting to see it laid out like this.

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and guess what else

[gEvil (beta)]

I've heard that you can even buy editorial space on a website called slashdot. Pot, meet kettle.

Thank goodness...

[metamatic]

...I get all my game reviews from trustworthy and unbiased sources like Official PlayStation Magazine and Nintendo Power.