As far as I know the "game" in question was never reviewed* on Kotaku or whatever website people were brandishing their pitchforks and torches at, merely mentioned in an article as something interesting that people should check out. Apparently the writer of that article knew the person who made the game, which made a bunch of people on /v/ and kotakuinaction very mad

*it was more of a free interactive browser game/art piece/thing, so it was never sold and as such never reviewed in traditional games media