Oh wow - if this is true, thats quite a discovery.

The URL is of form "http://www.variety.com/review/..." so it really does imply a review.

Yeah that was a totally serious review there. Read the comments from everyone on the article. They're pretty angry

The best line is:

There’s clever art design on many of the planets Mario visits, but given the vastly superior quality of the graphics in a game like “Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction,” currently available for the PS3, “Galaxy” looks old fashioned and lifeles

So ridiculous.

Wow!! Good eye, mate!

Sadly there are a lot of conflicts of interest in the gaming industry, and Sony isn't the only one doing it. It has been stated that Microsoft has paid many of it's game producers to port bad copies of multiplatform games to the other platform's to increase microsoft sales. Nintendo is just as guilty with a full magazine that rates other than Nintendo Games (Nintendo Monthly)

Sadly, this is an industry to make money, and unless proven intent of slander it is free run. Think of all those cingular vs verizon commercials. Same thing.

*steps off soapbox*

Also, good eye, nice catch.