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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:30 pm    Post subject: IGN AU posting press releases as news? Reply with quote
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I was taking a look at IGN AU and I found 5 news items written by the Australian guys that seem to look they've been copied and pasted directly from press releases.

The offending articles;
http://au.games.ign.com/articles/743/743496p1.html
http://au.games.ign.com/articles/743/743497p1.html
http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/743/743493p1.html
http://au.games.ign.com/articles/743/743492p1.html
http://au.psp.ign.com/articles/743/743385p1.html

Can anyone confirm if these are press releases? It's been a while since I visited IGN, but I didn't think they did that. PALGN don't seem to.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Yup, all those are exact copies of press releases we've received today. One of PALGN's most fundamental editorial rules is not to publish anything directly from a press release. Because, you know, there's a reason press releases are biased.

Good to see IGN are putting their resourcing into making sure Australia gets decent coverage, huh?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I thought so. Great.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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At least they advertise them as press releases, if look at the header above the title.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Hmmm...

Not this one; http://au.psp.ign.com/articles/743/743385p1.html
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i no this might seem out of topic but was there allways a ign australia? ive allways known it to be just ign
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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It popped up about a week ago.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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IGN Australia is only a few weeks old. 2 months max.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Yeah, they opened up to try to steal our advertising dollars icon_wink.gif Either that or they want more Australians to pay to view their content icon_twisted.gif
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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IGN AU opened on the 20th or 21st of October.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Yeah, it automatically defaults to the Aussie site when you view it. It's the same basically, with a little more, copied and pasted press release articles. icon_smile.gif
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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but are the releases australian?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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In related news, the Aussie review of Mario Hoops got a higher score than the US review of Mario Hoops. Weird. Strange. Stupid even.

Maybe NOA gave us the super hardc0r3 beefed up version?

Or maybe IGN are stupid.
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