I do enjoy a good Ed Zitron sneer. The fact that the original article moved markets says a lot about the critical thinking skills of stock market traders.
It doesn't have any material effect on this article, but it says something about his ethics.
> Darkfall lead developer Tasos Flambouras claims that game server logs show that the Eurogamer reviewer played the game for under three hours, a claim denied by the writer.
Even if we take the lead developer's word for it, what you are describing is simply false.