History YMMV / IGN64

* ReviewsAreTheGospel: The site would take its reviews very seriously. At one point they had to inform readers that yes, they did play ''[[VideoGame/{{Superman 64}} The New Superman Aventures]]'' ... [[http://ign64.ign.com/articles/151/151957p1.html extensively]]. And that it hurt.

* InternetBackdraft: In the summer of 2018, it came to light that one reviewer and editor, Filip Miucin, had [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} plagiarized]] his review of ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' from a small Website/YouTube channel. Investigation into his other reviews revealed a long history of plagiarism, even before being signed on to IGN as an editor. For their part, IGN fired Miucin and had all game reviews by him taken down pending re-review by other staff.

* InternetBackdraft: In the summer of 2018, it came to light that one reviewer and editor, Filip Miucin, had [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} plagiarized]] his review of ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' from a small Youtube channel. Investigation into his other reviews revealed a long history of plagiarism, even before being signed on to IGN as an editor. For their part, IGN fired Miucin and had all game reviews by him taken down pending re-review by other staff.
* ReviewsAreTheGospel: The site would take its reviews very seriously. At one point they had to inform readers that yes, they did play ''[[VideoGame/{{Superman64}} The New Superman Aventures]]'' ... [[http://ign64.ign.com/articles/151/151957p1.html extensively]]. And that it hurt.

* EightPointEight: Mostly averted. The editors were HUGE Nintendo fanboys and never gave a good game a less-than-decent review.
** One notable example is ''VideoGame/SanFranciscoRush: Extreme Racing''. Although they did reward it 8.9, that score is higher than in most other publications, whose editors did not play the game very extensively (''Magazine/NintendoPower'': 7.8; ''Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly'': 6.75; Gamespot: 7.1) and tended to evaluate it against high-tier racing sims such as ''VideoGame/GranTurismo''. Casamassina correctly recognized ''Extreme Racing'' as a stunt racer and reviewed it as such.
** They gave the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, which wasn't even available to the public yet and ''didn't even have all its features yet'', a 7.0. They also claimed that they "didn't want to give it a review number, [[DoubleStandard but we will anyway]]".

** One notable example is ''SanFranciscoRush: Extreme Racing''. Although they did reward it 8.9, that score is higher than in most other publications, whose editors did not play the game very extensively (''Magazine/NintendoPower'': 7.8; ''Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly'': 6.75; Gamespot: 7.1) and tended to evaluate it against high-tier racing sims such as ''VideoGame/GranTurismo''. Casamassina correctly recognized ''Extreme Racing'' as a stunt racer and reviewed it as such.

** They gave the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, which wasn't even available to the public yet and ''didn't even have all it's features yet'', a 7.0. They also claimed that they "didn't want to give it a review number, [[DoubleStandard but we will anyway]]".

* ReviewsAreTheGospel: The site would take its reviews very seriously. At one point they had to inform readers that yes, they did play ''[[{{Superman64}} The New Superman Aventures]]'' ... [[http://ign64.ign.com/articles/151/151957p1.html extensively]]. And that it hurt.

** One notable example is ''SanFranciscoRush: Extreme Racing''. Although they did reward it 8.9, that score is higher than in most other publications, whose editors did not play the game very extensively (''Magazine/NintendoPower'': 7.8; ''Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly'': 6.75; Gamespot: 7.1) and tended to evaluate it against high-tier racing sims such as ''GranTurismo''. Casamassina correctly recognized ''Extreme Racing'' as a stunt racer and reviewed it as such.