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Also, this fucking shit has been going for 20 years, it's not something what started to appear in the 2000s. There was a game released in 1992 or 1993 called Legends of Valour which was just utterly disgraced (gave it 20/100 or something like that) in the Pelit-magazine by Niko Nirvi, who then wrote in his column or in the review that game has gotten raving reviews in the english press...and what did he find in the game? The headshots of the english gaming magazines editors and editors-in-chief as shopkeepers and what not.
Pelit-magazine was great for it's first six years (from 1992 to 1998), they couple times basicly trashed some english and american gaming magazines for doing shitty reviews and previews of games, and gave some great examples like one english magazine had 3-4 page review of some game which was clearly written based on what the press-releases etc from the publisher/developer had said because the competition to get first review out was so brutal in england.
Nirvi also more and less subtly trashed their finnish competitor Pelaaja (The Gamer)-magazine for doing exclusive review on Pro Evolution Soccer, and if my memory serves me correctly, he trashed them for selling out :D
They also trashed english and american magazines for doing 2-3 pages long previews of the games and sucking on the publisher. Unfortunately Pelit-magazine started doing basicly the same some years ago, maybe out of necessity but there are still some bright spots, although their reviews are nowdays much more clearly done like the publishers wants, for example their review of Skyrim (both XBrick 360 and PC) didn't basicly mention bugs at all in the release version even though the game was just utterly riddled with the bugs but they mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas review how buggy the game was, and called it as a flaw of the game...funny how much difference the actual developer does.
Pelit-magazine was great for it's first six years (from 1992 to 1998), they couple times basicly trashed some english and american gaming magazines for doing shitty reviews and previews of games, and gave some great examples like one english magazine had 3-4 page review of some game which was clearly written based on what the press-releases etc from the publisher/developer had said because the competition to get first review out was so brutal in england.
Nirvi also more and less subtly trashed their finnish competitor Pelaaja (The Gamer)-magazine for doing exclusive review on Pro Evolution Soccer, and if my memory serves me correctly, he trashed them for selling out :D
They also trashed english and american magazines for doing 2-3 pages long previews of the games and sucking on the publisher. Unfortunately Pelit-magazine started doing basicly the same some years ago, maybe out of necessity but there are still some bright spots, although their reviews are nowdays much more clearly done like the publishers wants, for example their review of Skyrim (both XBrick 360 and PC) didn't basicly mention bugs at all in the release version even though the game was just utterly riddled with the bugs but they mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas review how buggy the game was, and called it as a flaw of the game...funny how much difference the actual developer does.
