I had a very brief “Hey, this has already been reported elsewhere!” spurt in, I think, June or July that lasted a few days. If I saw the same thing reported twice by two different sites I pointed it out like a total Goomba despite previously having more sense than that. After two or three days of doing this I realised that “old news is old” isn’t really incompetence on any level - it’s just a news source getting to the story a little late, that’s all.

In this instance, however - a window of several months - I can’t help but think “Wow, old news is old.” Especially when the site that originally posted the might-be-a-story was Kotaku waaaay back in July, and the site reporting it as news now is, haha, Joystiq.

There’s not really much of a story here, either: it’s two similar posters which both writers (Kotaku’s Michael McWhertor and Joystiq’s Griffin McElroy) slap up on their site while saying “COINCIDENCE????” and stroking their chins like a pantomime villain.

Having Kotaku beat you to the punch is bad enough, but when they point something like this out three months before you do, it just makes you look bad… especially when your operation seems to have been trying to imitate Kotaku over the last few months.