Link Video game journalism always had an unfortunate conflict of interest with video game publishers. How can a reviewer provide an objective review of a game when the company that made the game is also advertising on your magazine or site? It was hoped that this new independent era of Youtube personalities could provide more honest opinions. Clearly they're just as corruptible as any other media group.
In other news, human beings are greedy, selfish fucks. Stay tuned! .....there's a GamerGate joke to make here, but it's the wrong forum for that.