"The biggest giveaway, beyond heavy use of contrived metaphors, is a striking lack of detail beyond what you could glean from a trailer for the game. Embargoes covering what parts of a video game can come up in a pre-release review can be strict, but a good critic usually finds a way to describe their experience without being vague."
"The author's profile on VideoGamer is just as awkwardly written as the review, and the profile picture of the account appears to be AI-generated. When you try to save the image locally, its file name, 'ChatGPT-Image-Oct-20-2025-11_57_34-AM-300x300,' also seems like a dead giveaway."
"Kotaku looked at the X accounts of several other recent bylines at VideoGamer and found similar results. All their profile pictures appear to be AI-generated, and all the accounts were created around the same time in October 2025."
Metacritic removed a review of Resident Evil Requiem published by VideoGamer after determining it was AI-generated. The review, attributed to a fictional author named Brian Merrygold, lacked substantive detail and relied on contrived metaphors typical of AI writing. Investigation revealed the author's profile picture was AI-generated, with the filename containing ChatGPT metadata. Multiple other VideoGamer bylines from October 2025 showed similar patterns of AI-generated profile pictures and simultaneous account creation. Metacritic aggregates reviews from real publications to establish critical consensus scores, making the inclusion of fabricated AI reviews problematic for the platform's credibility and accuracy.
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