Eh… they were beholden to the games industry as much as any publication, and perhaps more due to their ownership.
yeah i meant work as in interesting content rather than journalism. never referred to GI for reviews but they had fun content.
that’s fair. I suspect their relationship with gamestop, which had it’s own mini-e3 for a while, led to a ton of great content discovery that many journalists didn’t get access to back in the day.