You know, it’s funny about the upcoming Killzone 2. Everyone now has an opinion about not only the game, but the people defending it from the influx of anti-Sony sites like Kotaku and GameDaily that would love to screw around with the Metascore. But that Edge 7/10 needed to be explained a lot more than it was. I’ve always said that if you are going to be in the minority as far as opinions about a certain thing goes, you better damn well have a good explanation as to why you’re in that minority. This is why Ben Durka said something on PSXExtreme about that Edge review. It was highly inconsistent (just as inconsistent as Famitsu is), the things they said did not justify the score, and it just reeked of either anti-Sony bias or plain stupidity. No one’s saying that no one is allowed to have a negative reaction to KZ2 or anything like that, but Edge seemed to just want some attention in the influx of everyone that would disagree with them.

But Variety had no right to go about posting what they did. Sony fanboys are like Rush Limbaugh? Yeah, right, bud, and people like you are just like Ann Coulter-geist: Generalizing every single person from one side of the equation and saying that they are the scum of the Earth while the other side comes out smelling like a goddamn rose.

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I thought that, because so many websites do things like this (a weekly recap of the big news of the week), that I thought that GG should have its own version of the weekly recap. However, as always, I want to put my own spin on things, and make this into something that a few people outside of gaming journalism do sometimes. If you watch NFL Gameday on the NFL Network a lot, you might be privy to this segment (since they do it all the time at the end of the night episode). It’s something called “What Have We Learned”. Here, instead of just giving you a boring recap, we’ll give you a rundown of what we were taught FROM the news of the week.

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