Russian Twitter source didn’t guess August PlayStation Plus lineup, copied it instead

I accidentally mislead a lot of people when I wrote this article earlier today on August’s PlayStation Plus lineup, based on this enthusiastic source:

Leak PS+ August: PS4 Octodad, The Swapper, PS3 Saints Row 4, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, PSV 1001 Spikes, Atelier Rorona Plus

— Drew Sher (@gray_dev) July 22, 2014

Like many other gaming journalists I wanted this to be true. The games are excellent and mysterious twitter sources sometimes, and often shine with insight. But Drew Sher’s tip was based off an earlier article by Dan Miller from this fine site, Brash Games. In Miller’s article, written 14 July, he mentions what his predictions for August will be.

“PS4 predictions: “Octodad: Deadliest Catch, The Swapper (cross-buy).

PS3 predictions: Saints Row 4, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

Vita predictions:1001 Spikes, Atelier Rorona Plus.”

These match Sher’s tweet word for word, of course. Later, The Swapper developer tweets us that in fact, their game won’t be coming out this August on PlayStation Plus.

@gearburn @dunnyone This list is fake – the original source you have misread an article of predictions from another site

— Curve Digital (@curvestudios) July 29, 2014

and follows up with this,

@gearburn @dunnyone That is to say, The Swapper is not in PS Plus

— Curve Digital (@curvestudios) July 29, 2014

With the studio dismissing this claim, even a non-plagiarised list would have been dismissed. Thanks to Rob Clarke from Curve Studios for the tweet that started it all. We were all hoping for The Swapper though. 1001 Spikes has now also confirmed that its game won’t be making it to PlayStation Plus in August.

The 1001 Spikes PS+ rumors are just that, rumors. Feel free to ignore them

— Tyrone Rodriguez (@tyronerodriguez) July 29, 2014