At first IGN tried to rig the poll by adding Death Stranding after 7000 votes were already cast, without allowing people to change their votes. After that did not work and Death Stranding still reached the first place, they begged people to stop voting for Death Stranding and mocked those who did:
After all their attempts to affect the poll results didnt work IGN took the poll down completely.
link to the specific moderator post:
As you can see in the comments, multiple people are reporting death stranding is leading a poll that cannot be found now so i have to assume this is legitimate and quite baffling move of IGN to trying to affect the results so much and claim that whoever voted for the game was ingenuine.