We're gonna be looking as Inside, but they sent us a pretty weird email saying "With Playdead's INSIDE launching next week I wanted to discuss potential streaming/coverage plans you may have for your channel. Since you know your audience best, I'd like to open up the discussion on what type of content would resonate best with your fans if we were able to get you a code to the game.". We replied, as we do with every game, that we would critique the game just like any other and would appreciate review code prior to launch to do that. We also reminded them that we can't guarantee coverage to any game. Well, out come the reviews today, we never got a reply from them. It seems that they were looking for some sort of preferential coverage or something like that and went silent when we weren't willing to provide it.



It's a very odd situation. We personally can't remember the last time any developer approached us to "start a conversation about coverage". We do what every other outlet does, which is receive review code, decide whether or not to look at it and then produce content if we do. There are no special arrangements outside the usual embargoes and spoiler restrictions. We're not exactly sure why the PR company decided to approach us this way, but whatever the case, if we do coverage of this game it will now be late since we don't have access. Apologies to the viewers who were hoping for a prompt look at Inside, we did attempt to get it, but it seems the developers were looking for something else from Youtubers and Twitch streamers that was not necessarily a critique. It's honestly hard to say what their goal was with this, it's so unclear and completely irregular.