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Paul Ryan
Brash Games, Owner
Despite claiming that the Brash Games doesn’t run advertisements, it seems rather evident that the site offers undisclosed sponsored content linkning to casino websites — even leaving the signature of the affiliate agent at one point. Affiliate links appear even on the site’s front page, and are prevailingly found in articles written by one David James — that appears to be an alias for site owner Paul Ryan.
When controversy put Brash Games in the spotlight in April 2017, claimed that Brash Games doesn’t run advertisements while the site was clearly running a massive amount of undisclosed sponsored content. Brash also unpublished articles that were linked as proof of their malfeasance. In addition, the accusations in their statement responding to the controversy seem factually inaccurate.
Appears to routinely change review scores from contributors’ submissions, to match average scores. Has admitted to it, stating it happened “a handful of times”, in “a tiny proportion” of the total reviews.
After a quitting writer managed to publicly accuse Brash Games on the site itself, numerous testimonies of former staff and documented proof (also an investigation by OpenCritic) showed that Brash Games strips writing credit from its contributors when they leave the site — essentially removing the unpaid writers’ only compensation. Following universal criticism, Brash Games blamed a technical issue, removed its staff page, apprently removed even more bylines, and eventually started issuing apparently unfonded accusations to former contributors. Ryan is, as of late 2017, attempting to sell Brash Games and start a new site.
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