1UP, Plagiarizing, and Other Bits of Joy

1up recently posted their Dead or Alive 4 strategy guide on their website. It didn’t take long for users at the Dead or Alive Central forums to recognize their hard work analyzing the fighting game engine had been blatantly pasted into the strategy guide without any credit given whatsoever. While movelists are largely factual and can be argued to be public knowledge, the most incriminating evidence is the section on the evasion system, which had been pasted into the 1up guide with a few reworded sentences.

If this is true, it’s sad to see the big review sites doing this. Check out the full posting and comments at Slashdot.