User blog comment:Commdor/ME3 to Have "Killer New Feature"/@comment-737801-20111010211149/@comment-737801-20111010220317

Your 1up article doesn't have much credit as 2006 was just a short time after Oblivion's release and Bethesda was busy with Fallout 3 and other projects. Making Skyrim took years, as there is a whole new engine, so that's at least two years of R&D, and at the time, so soon after a major release, it would make sense for them to deny a full new game, especially one on the level of Oblivion. Even Bethesda said however that they would be making another one, but it currently wasn't in the works. In 2006, when that article was posted, that was true. Denying a sequel in the near future because of other projects, which is what the article really did say, yet still saying that there will be one.

The Katoku article is actually something that doesn't help as companies do that all the time when something is leaked. That isn't lying, that's expected when a leak like that occurs.

The techradar article also has it's issues. One is the fact it was back in 2009, when it was very possible that the Vita wasn't in the works. Maybe someone was looking at it, but there wasn't anything serious yet. The touchsreen aspect may have been added in 2010, or even earlier this year for all we know. The first really confirmed rumor was in July of 2009, and it's very possible that it was still in the initial, i.e. paper, development stage. A year later in July of 2010, Sony official announced it, over a year and a half after the article. This isn't lying, it's not spreading false information, or information where the development is so new, that releasing anything would have disastrous consequences.

Again, none of the articles really do much to help your point as one of the articles is good marketing, don't get the fans' hopes up with a new sequel; another is standard procedure when anything is leaked, no matter the company; and the third has other issues with development cycle and possible redevelopment during the process.

However, this is a different matter. Casey Hudson stated before E3 that they tried for multiplayer but couldn't fit it in. Then we get this. That is a bold faced lie and there's little working around that.