i highly against judging a media simply by a single content piece they made.
the verge is a media outlet that is focus on wideness and lack of depthness. they have really good webside and video art but the content is sub par.
think of this: the verge's parent company is rolling a bunch of fresh highschool graduates into glass offices with toys, that has free meal with avacado, fancy chairs and apple computers; trucking them to places and write pieces. but it stays there, just writing pieces, pieces that probably not worth your cpu time to show the ads let alone read them.
comparing the verge to ign is an offence to the writers and editors works there.