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[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/starfield-review-embargo-ends-august-31-at-9am-pt-up-many-uk-outlets-did-not-receive-code-eurogamer-has-a-code-now-review-will-be-late.754153/page-129#post-111213886
Jason stating the FO4 leak isn't true

This is the common belief but not entirely true. The blacklist followed a series of articles published over the course of 2013, including:

The turbulent story of Doom's development: https://kotaku.com/five-years-and-nothing-to-show-how-doom-4-got-off-trac-468097062
Reporting on Arkane being saddled with Prey and then calling out Pete Hines for lying about it: https://kotaku.com/leaked-e-mails-suggest-bethesda-misled-gamers-about-pre-1149092622
and of course our report that Fallout 4 was real: https://kotaku.com/leaked-documents-reveal-that-fallout-4-is-real-set-in-1481322956

Nobody at Bethesda has explained exactly why we were blacklisted (given the whole "being blacklisted" thing), but it's safe to conclude that it was indeed because they didn't like the way I covered them in some form or another.

This is so damn shady of Schreier. He knows that he can't really defend leaking Fallout 4 so he tries to obscure it by pretending that it's actually also because of those other articles.