Never Trust the Internet

Whether you believe the Nintendo Conference, aka The Apocalypse is happening in Japan right now or 4 hours from now, you should at least have the common sense to get your facts straight before you pretend to have a corespondent in Japan. Currently, there are three blogging sites that are "live blogging" this mythical event via a "live stream". The two terms being placed in quotes because there can be no live blogging without a live event. What these three sites are doing -- without knowledge, mind you -- is blogging, in real time, over a stream from June. Behold.

GameWorld Network, Nintendo Wii Fanboy and Just Pause have all placed far too much intellectual stock in the internet, NeoGAF to be specific. From now on, whenever I see some kid on GAF laugh about "New Games Journalism", I'll be sure to always remember these Real GAF Heroes.

So congratulations to you, Mr. Live Blogging Ancient Streams Guy. Without you there would be no joy found in a delayed conference.

[Update #1]  As of about 10 minutes ago, GWN has replaced their live blogging antics with a simple message stating that they were given the incorrect information. This of course being a way for them to save at least a bit of face before the newly coined term "gwned" becomes synonomous with their website.

Simply replacing the text (And hilarious screen captures of Iwata) with an apology was probably the best thing they could do in order to not cause further drama from their end. Opposite of this is NintendoWii Fanboy whom has turned around and blamed GWN for this whole incident, as opposed to just admitting that they leech their information from the same sources as everyone else.

Apparently, most sites and chatroom bloggers were actually relying on a GWN page for live information. The GWN site, in turn, appeared to be reporting a video feed from several months ago, and the entire internet is on the verge of exploding. This is an absolute debacle, and we sincerely apologize to our readers for this travesty.

Not only is this a great example as to why most people should take anything not stated on the major sites with a grain of salt, but also as to how unprofessional some of the professional blogging circuit is when it comes to games. If anyone involved had done even the slightest bit of research, it would have been obvious that the stream floating around was older. Hell, it had a fucking length already attached to it. This is simply a case of a bunch of leeches getting exactly what they deserve.