Sea of Stars.
Prima Games has been caught plagiarizing a game guide. Today’s Bad Press piece was brought to our attention through a post by Sports Illustrated content director Kirk McKeand, who asked a simple question; Why did Prima Games copy their guide?
The guide in question is for Sea of Stars, the recently released turn-based RPG on [insert your console here]. And you may be asking how Kirk knows Prima Games copied their guide? Simple; the guide makes mention of “B’st’s Stone.”
And here is B’st’s Stone mentioned in the guide by Georgina Young.
The problem? B’st’s Stone doesn’t exist in Sea of Stars. If you search on Google you’ll fine exactly one result for B’st’s Stone. And it’s from Sport’s Illustrated. One result on Google is what’s otherwise called a very specific fetish.
Here’s the fun part; The Prima Games guide was originally written by Nikola Jovanovic.
The exact same link now leads to a copy written by Meg Koepp. In fact we were only able to find a copy because The Internet Archive happened to take a snapshot during the couple of days the link was up.
A post at the bottom of the guide notes;
An earlier version of this guide was removed as it was originally published below the standard of work that we at Prima Games pride ourselves on. This article was rewritten and published as of 11:27 AM PT on September 8, 2023.
I’m not sure what standard of work you expect from a guy who writes Wordle articles in 2023.
Well we’ll always have the Internet Archive. Who would have thought the Executive Editor in Chief at IGN would be plagiarizing the work of others? Outside of anybody familiar with IGN.
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