It wasn?t too long ago that we talked about just how damaging leaks can be for the video game industry. In fact, we?ve covered the subject multiple times. Some of the attention that this very site gained was due to a leak that our founder had years ago. We?ve long understood that, while the attention gained may boost our numbers briefly (and really did help to put the site on the map), that we inevitably set something in motion that we couldn?t quite stop. We potentially forced an early reveal that may or may not have been ready. Anthony?s remorse for that decision is strong, despite how it strengthened PlayStation LifeStyle?s position overall with readers.
I?m not going to go too deep down that particular rabbit hole. We?ve talked about it plenty before now, and reading up on Anthony?s own account of the events is better than I could ever hope to relay them. But here we sit in 2019 where leaks and rumors continue to be a persistent problem facing not just the video game industry, but entertainment in general.
As we?ve become a far more connected world, it?s easy for a single detail, screenshot, photograph, or spoiler to blow up so much to the point that we identify everything about a particular subject around that fragment of knowledge. It creates misperceptions that, while potentially based in truth, rarely represent the full picture.

In film you see this with rabid fanbases seeking any information about movie franchises, most notably Star Wars and the Marvel movies. Fo...