I saw that, but it still doesn't quite explain why they took it quite so seriously, if it really was a threat she made on her own. The article is out there, unredacted, elsewhere too and there've been no further threats of legal action I'm aware of.
As RevStu puts it:
Hmm. I don't suppose we'll find out what really happened but we're certainly not getting the whole picture.
As RevStu puts it:
That fact appears to leave us with only one plausible conclusion. Eurogamer's own Operations Director has explicitly said there was a legal threat (something he's reiterated in a statement today just minutes before we were about to publish this post), despite the website having previously only admitted to changing the piece after a "complaint". Given the vast costs of a libel case, it seems hugely unlikely that experienced professionals such as Bramwell or Loman would treat as credible a threat from a lowly staff writer like Wainwright on her own. Therefore, we must assume that the "lawyers" mentioned by Bramwell would have been those of Intent Media
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