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Post-release UK AitD reviews set to stun, ugly Atari rumours emerge

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Videogaming247 has learned this morning that one of the UK's biggest PC magazines is set to deliver a sub-60 percent score on Alone in the Dark, with more wince-worthy marks set to follow in the coming weeks.

This isn't looking good. Talk in Britain is also emerging that Atari refused to let pre-release reviews go live unless they were "positive enough", a ploy seemingly mirrored in Holland.

"Within an hour [after posting our review], Atari called to have the review pulled off, claiming there was an embargo till Friday," Gamer.nl staffer Erwin Bergervoet told Shacknews.

"Our review copy was sent directly to us by Atari and [was] not a pirated copy. They explicitly told [Gamer.nl] that they only let high scoring reviews break the post-release embargo date."

Expect more on this next week.

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Alone in the Dark

Xbox 360, PS2, Nintendo Wii, PC

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Action Adventure Atari Journalism PC Reviews rumours Xbox 360
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Patrick Garratt

Founder & Publisher (Former)

Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
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