This seems legit to me. From the email I get the sense that EA's bending them over the barrel just like it does to ever gamer with an IQ greater than 14 who wants to do more than just buy the latest sports title because it has a more biggester number onnit than the lastedy year's gamebox, and Eurogamer's not going to put up with it. Maybe that's wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that EA's executive staff had murdered a busload of orphan kittens, cremated them, used the ashes to create some sort of slurry, used the slurry as a marital aid, then packaged the befouled slurry and sold it as food to orphan humans with diseases at a five million percent markup. It's just their MO.