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Documented evidence surfacing of NicheGamer's Plagiarism of Articles from Gematsu.

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SinCityAssassin

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In the past few hours, several instances of plagurism has been noted by Gematsu's twitter, committed by NicheGamer writers who lift edited PRs and other blurbs of text from Gematsu articles of the same subjects without credit, and the twitter has been replying to many article tweets plagiarized, allegedly spanning at least a year.







 
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Never heard of them. Good riddance nonetheless.
 
Strings

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It's hilariously blatant. Not hard to link back to Gematsu for their great work...

Unsure how the traffic works out, but was a bummer to see they had twice as many twitter followers :/
 
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the Trails of Cold Steel one is hilarious.
Purely a coincidence that they text was copypasted
 
Keyser S

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I guess they are not doing the work to get the PR themselves - so wrongly treating Gematsu as a PR resource site
 
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This is one of those publications that would grouch over feminists taking away their anime boobs and fanservice, right?

Either way, trash publication.
 
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The reason why he's using archive is because one article and tweet he pointed out on Twitter ended up getting deleted.
 
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Meh I followed them on twitter because they were one of those publications that didn't wrote irritating gonzo editorials and now they get caught doing this. Unacceptable.
 
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I mean most if not all of Gematsu content is just trailers, press releases and very short, dry and extremely informative text. Not a lot to steal, but still a very bad look for NicheGamer.

EDIT: ok everyone, my bad, I forgot about the translations part.
 
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NicheGamer is trash and everyone who works on it are bitch made. Truth is their readership are bitch made too. Doesn't surprise me they're just leeches from the work of others.
 
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Calibro said:
I mean most if not all of Gematsu content is just trailers, press releases and very short, dry and extremely informative text. Not a lot to steal, but still a very bad look for NicheGamer.
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I mean it doesn't matter if it's not a lot to steal if you still insist on stealing it, right? Gematsu makes a point whether or not they summarized a press release or a translation, and then that ends up being lifted instead of from the PR source itself.
 
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You'd think they would've stopped after the Filip Muicin stuff came out... But I guess they may not pay too much attention to gaming news
 
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Calibro said:
I mean most if not all of Gematsu content is just trailers, press releases and very short, dry and extremely informative text. Not a lot to steal, but still a very bad look for NicheGamer.
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An awful lot of Gematsu's content is hand-translated from Japanese by its staff, too, and that shit got lifted as well. It's bad.
 
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An awful lot of Gematsu's content is hand-translated from Japanese by its staff, too, and that shit got lifted as well. It's bad.
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Yeah, they've more or less replaced AndriaSang as the go to source if you want Japanese gaming news. Particularly news from smaller titles that haven't even had a localization announced.
 
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chaobreaker said:
This is one of those publications that would grouch over feminists taking away their anime boobs and fanservice, right?

Either way, trash publication.
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It is. And I have some of their writers and editors blocked too. You can find a lot of GG related articles on their site, and their former senior writer who now works for Russian propaganda site RT even used to do AMAs on KiA. A couple of their editors I even remember harassing and antagonizing a friend of mine who has been trying to get into games journalism. Lots of rotten people work for NicheGamer
 
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Isn't Nichegamer a Gamergate site? What happened to that whole ethics spiel.
 
Vern

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I am unable to see Twitter at the moment, but can someone explain how it's possible to plagiarize a press release? Isn't that what it's for, to release to the press for them to disseminate?
 
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Vern said:
I am unable to see Twitter at the moment, but can someone explain how it's possible to plagiarize a press release? Isn't that what it's for, to release to the press for them to disseminate?
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Like this.
 
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Vern said:
I can't see whatever it you are posting. I believe you though.
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Okay essentially a lot of the PR in Gematsu articles is translated by staff, or edited by the writer for more concise information.

NicheGamer lifts that from Gematsu instead of the actual source. There is also one instance where a paragraph from a gematsu article is accidentally retained in an NG one and other times where an NG article that retains errors from the first iteration of a Gematsu article.
 
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So i got that one friend that likes everything from Niche Gamer but isn't a fan of Gematsu. That will be definitely interessting.
 
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SinCItyAssassin said:
Okay essentially a lot of the PR in Gematsu articles is translated by staff, or edited by the writer for more concise information.

NicheGamer lifts that from Gematsu instead of the actual source. There is also one instance where a paragraph from a gematsu article is accidentally retained in an NG one and other times where an NG article that retains errors from the first iteration of a Gematsu article.
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Translated from Japanese to English? Anyway ok I got it, weird they don't just rewrite it or wait for press release in English.
 
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Plagarism like this is harder to notice at times because standard games news can often read as canned press releases, and it is commonly regurgitated in some form.

This probably got noticed a bit faster because it's, well, Nichegamer. In addition to this being some pretty egregious leeching from a single source, in this case Gematsu
 
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I for one am shocked that a website infested with thumb sucking gamergate nerds is trash
 
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Nanashrew said:
It is. And I have some of their writers and editors blocked too. You can find a lot of GG related articles on their site, and their former senior writer who now works for Russian propaganda site RT even used to do AMAs on KiA. A couple of their editors I even remember harassing and antagonizing a friend of mine who has been trying to get into games journalism. Lots of rotten people work for NicheGamer
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I also heard from a friend this isnt the first time Sal pointed this out.

So yeah pure scum.
 
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I'm not from the US and the first time I saw the site, the "we proudly support our troops" banner made me laugh and was a reason enough for never go back.
 
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Strings said:
It's hilariously blatant. Not hard to link back to Gematsu for their great work...

Unsure how the traffic works out, but was a bummer to see they had twice as many twitter followers :/
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Wow, that's shitty. :(

I'd follow Gematsu if I have an active Twitter account. I open the site (which I bookmarked) at least 3 times a day, it's my main source for Japanese games.
 
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Vern said:
Translated from Japanese to English? Anyway ok I got it, weird they don't just rewrite it or wait for press release in English.
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Not when they report on Japanese games that don't get any PR done until they're announced for localisation. They're basically the go to place if you want yo Japanese gaming news ASAP.

I dont get why these plagarisers can't just credit their sources. Why act like you got it first hand? Anyway it seems like Nichegamer is trash anyways. So much for ethics lol
 
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SinCItyAssassin said:
Okay essentially a lot of the PR in Gematsu articles is translated by staff, or edited by the writer for more concise information.

NicheGamer lifts that from Gematsu instead of the actual source. There is also one instance where a paragraph from a gematsu article is accidentally retained in an NG one and other times where an NG article that retains errors from the first iteration of a Gematsu article.
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Isn't Gematsu just one person? I'm always really impressed in the hard work he does
 
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