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IGN has taken down a review of the game Dead Cells, after it was found the video was almost word for word when compared to a video by Boomstickgamer, uploaded to YouTube over a week earlier. Boomstickgamer uploaded a video comparing the two videos and contacted IGN for an explanation. IGN pulled the video almost immediately but has yet to comment on the event outside of stating that the review has been taken down and that they are investigating.

Source - Boomstickgamers video
Source - IGN's statement [mod edit] Original link removed from IGN, archive.org copy

 

[Ev1l0rd]

and thus its clear you react the way you react toward plagiarism because that how you've been specifically taught toward plagiarism as Ive been told to react the same way. Im just saying try to look outside of that. Which goes back to that review wherein it became that dude and he could no longer grasp outside of that teaching or in this case a mind griping review of dead cells 9.7/10.0

You do realize that by your thought process, anything becomes defensible and that anything someone considers unjustifiable is just "a limitation of their mind and what they've been thought". By this logic, transphobia, homophobia and racism are similarly defensible (and here's a hint: they aren't).

 

[gameboy]

You do realize that by your thought process, anything becomes defensible and that anything someone considers unjustifiable is just "a limitation of their mind and what they've been thought". By this logic, transphobia, homophobia and racism are similarly defensible (and here's a hint: they aren't).

but thats really how this world works

 

[FAST6191]

Having your memory trick you and you then borrowing a turn of phrase, non obvious line of logic (especially without confirming it yourself or attributing it) or something similar can be a serious thing. Academics and research often have this as a worry. Handle it properly (which in many cases includes having your new paper/book/report/... run through a computerised check not unlike those used on students beforehand, not to mention it is one of the reasons many academics/researchers/similar are strongly encouraged to keep dated notebooks and journals) and we can probably carry on with life. Related is a favourite thing for me to see is when a new popular film, TV show or something uses an unpopular word and then notice the amount of people working it in there like it was on their word calendar or something; around the time Inglourious Basterds was doing the build up/release thing then we saw many instances of that.

Committing wholesale to ripping off someone's creative analysis, even, or perhaps especially, if you try to dodge the simple word comparison service, and putting it out there is a cunt move on many levels ranging from depriving someone else (the one did the work even) of their audience to frustrating a meta analysis (if I am supposed to read the efforts of multiple reviewers to look for either interesting points they may have had or some kind of consensus opinion then that is harder). Should you get caught then expect the consequences to be incredibly serious, and you likely losing any kind of position as well as potential to hold a position.

Certain fields may well have some oddities and edge cases associated with them. Journalism, comedy, coding, patents, history, scientific research all having interesting things ranging from the humble meta analysis, coding is beset by problems detecting copying as there are limited ways to do things sensibly, general sourcing, for patents see the gillette defence or indeed almost any of the big defences and cases, and as sources is all important in history they have some things they do as well. For the subject of discussion here I fail to see any mitigating factor at play or defence that can be given.

I may well somewhere be guilty of the former thing, especially with the way my memory seems to work, but I can safely say I am not guilty anywhere of the latter, aspire never to be and can further say I have never even considered it. I did let someone copy my French homework once and help him understand what was being said and change the relevant words (he was blonde, I am not)... for which he got a better mark for despite no spelling or grammar mistakes on his or my part.

 

[FAST6191]

Seems things carried on after all this, and where there is fire there is also more fire. Bit late to this one but it is here now

Summary of later events and the follow up to them.


For myself the guy is burned and I have not otherwise seen anything particularly insightful or delivery worth noting that would even have me consider him over the thousand other identikit game journalist types.

 

[pasc]

Seems like the developers lazyness is rubbing off on reviewers *chuckle*.

Sad times.

 

[Redhorse]

I'm sure someones already said it, but this isn't the first time a review has been plagiarised, happened quite recently in fact, made quite a stir...


In my line of work, there's an adage.. 'to steal one routine is called plagiarism, to steal an entire show is called research."

 

[Deleted_413010]

example: gbatemp writers do the same but change enough to make i not word-for-word.

And what's your proof to backup that claim huh? So far all you look like to me is a troll who argues and is not really a college professor. You have no proof to backup anything you say.

 

[FAST6191]

IGN Brazil got caught copying content, including cropping watermarks, and sticking it on their (monetised) facebook page. It popped a few days back but started making it wider more recently
Random video covering it


For the most part it seems like a bad egg at a presumably throwaway subsidiary* so I note it here rather than making a standalone thread. Still thought it worth noting though.

*or have they since started doing a good job of being "local" news for the surprisingly large and growing Brazilian gaming scene (have their own devs, one localisations for a certain measure of the term, games set there, I assume we have all generally seen the fun and games with different old consoles there and what goes)? Most ROM hackers, and the Brazilian ROM hacking scene is huge (pretty much only China and some years maybe Russia that does better in the non English hacking world) and doing very good stuff, and peeps from there I speak to don't have the kindest words for them.