New Patreon COI (journalist to subject): Critical Distance &amp; Chris Plante (outlet possibly financially supported subject they covered in 2009) [x-post reddit] >Subject: Critical Distance & Chris Plante >Sources: Twitter, Gamasutra. >Date Compiled: June 27th, 2015. >Credits: Original Research from @BoogiepopRobin                                 ************************************************************ >03.05.14: Critical Distance supported me (and Hardcasual) in 2009. Now I (and you) can support it and @KrisLigman http://www.patreon.com/critdistance?rf=47882&ty=2 https://archive.is/y4hLV >Articles with Potential Conflicts of Interest: >10.29.09: The Week In Game Criticism: Cursed, Pets, Less Than Charted  https://archive.is/4LzvC >11.05.09: The Week In Video Game Criticism: The Beatles, Torchlight, Prince Of Persia  https://archive.is/Dt7WR >Sumary: >The tweet is hard enough to at least suggest that there was a financial relationship involved between Plante (and Hardcasual) and Critical Distance. >Critical Distance apparently supported both in 2009 and featured Hardcasual in two articles on Gamasutra. Distance issues are suggested when the writer or outlet that is covering a subject is also supporting that subject. I found no disclosure of this potential conflict of interest. Source This post was mirrored from http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3bfde9/new_patreon_coi_journalist_to_subject_critical/ and may have been edited at the original location.