Megasite IGN has been forced into a massively embarrassing climbdown over a US reviewer’s treatment of the Football Manager 2009 PC game by angry fans. The aptly-named Avi Burk gave the game 2.0 on IGN’s infamously lenient scoring system (a 7 is poor, a 6 is dreadful). Oddly, the UK arm of IGN, run by some far more capable journalists apparently, gave the game 9.1.
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To coincide with the hotly anticipated Left4Dead demo launch on Thursday, Valve is unveiling a brand new Steam service for PC gaming fans. Steam Cloud is a system for storing player settings on the server end, so that when you shift from computer to computer, mouse configurations, keyboard settings and even savegames will stay with you.