Their gaming site Polygon ran afoul of this http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497693 http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/30/3575978/halo-4-avatar-cost...
Essentially one of their first "articles" was just a copy/pasted press release from Pizza Hut for Halo 4. When people began calling them out on it in their comments, rather than take the link down and post a 'mea culpa', they began censoring the posts and then later deny there was even a controversy because they didn't receive any money from Pizza Hut for it.
Oh wait except they took $750K from Microsoft (aka the IP owners of Halo 4) to make their "teaser trailer" for the website.
Some would say that it's SOP for gaming websites to just copy/paste press releases but I say if you're going to call yourself something different and do "game journalism" with ethics, you shouldn't be doing stuff like this.
It makes me really think twice about any articles on The Verge regarding Microsoft.