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I expect the worst out of reviewers, I knew a few who legitimately evaluated the games the way they played and basically they got ripped apart and the company threatened to pull advertising revenue from the magazine unless they retracted the review, etc. So I *know* there is a lot of dirty behind the scenes buyouts out there going on. However… don’t try to put the fault on the reviewer or people offended by people passing it off as truth. This gem at wired by Michael Ansaldo tries to fault Hexus for publishing emails about Alienware telling them in writing point blank “We won’t send you hardware anymore because you didn’t give us a good review, guarantee a good review and we’ll send you hardware.” Gee, do you think he may suddenly feel a bit guilty about taking payoffs in the past for good reviews? The original article by Hexus is published here. If you’d like to see alienware back peddle a bit, read more on the last page…

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