The appearance of corruption is enough in this case to calcify my, and others opinion of your outfit, whatever it may be. Ancedotally it's one of the reasons why I've long since given up paying attention to game mag reviews and just play whatever I've liked.
The biggest problem is the entanglement of the game industry with the reviewers. Part of it certainly the industries' fault -- they have pushed the boundaries of the relationship farther and farther from integrity at every turn.
However, reviewers are every bit as much to blame, possibly even more so as many of them are trained journalists -- they know what lines are seemingly unethical and yet they continue to cross them in a brazen fashion -- without any regard to appearance unless they get "caught" with their hand in the cookie jar.
Not your fault at all, of course. But just because you don't let the trip, the figurine, the 24 pack of mountain dew and the 10 bags of Doritos
influence you doesn't mean that others aren't out their trading their integrity for a bag of chips. And even if they aren't, it sure looks like it when people are brazenly displaying their industry credentials on their Linkedin for all the world to see.