IncGamers - What Is A "Fair" MMO Review?
Skip to this past week. Rise of the Godslayer, the expansion to Age of Conan, is released. Eurogamer reviews it, and the writer gives the expansion a 6 out of 10. Funcom, the developer, along with some hardcore fans, have a collective cow over the score, and nitpick the writer's comments like they were starving vultures.

What did Eurogamer do? You guessed it. They completely folded, pulled the review down, and commissioned a second review.

Spawn Kill - Lamenting the Loss of Manuals. Thanks Joker961 via Digg.
Call me old-fashioned, but the feeling of thumbing through the crisp (sometimes colored) pages rife with back story, notes from the designers, and detailed instructions on how to play gave me a real sense of anticipation. It was genuinely difficult to wait those few short hours until the final journey home at the end of the day to eagerly devour the content on the disk (or cartridge) inside. In some cases, being treated with some delicious fiction related to the title was something to look forward to as well, especially if you needed a little extra hype to fully enjoy the adventure about to unfold.