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You should look into how he destroyed the small indie MMO Darkfall and gave the game 2/10 without ever playing it, in a Eurogamer review a few years ago. The developers had receipts and could prove that he hadn't played it.

It doesn't have any material effect on this article, but it says something about his ethics.

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From Wikipedia:

> Darkfall lead developer Tasos Flambouras claims that game server logs show that the Eurogamer reviewer played the game for under three hours, a claim denied by the writer.

Even if we take the lead developer's word for it, what you are describing is simply false.

Its word against word in this situation. The logs prove nothing as they are easily modifiable and the devs had a good reason to do so.

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