Over the last week, there has been much discussion around the act of YouTube personalities in the video game space accepting money from game developers in exchange for coverage of their games. A survey of YouTube content creators performed by Gamasutra found a considerable amount of popular channels (more than a quarter surveyed) acknowledging that they had accepted compensation in this way at some point, giving rise once more to the old chestnut that the people who critique games for a living are little more than bought-out PR mouthpieces. Continue reading “Would I directly take money in exchange for coverage of a game?”