Friday, November 30, 2007

Gamespot

I have been hearing rumors about Jeff Gerstman being fired from Gamespot. That's not surprising. He gave a controversial score of 8.8 to Zelda: Twilight Princess while other publications gave it a 10, and a score of 9 to Bioshock, which seemed to be related to him being a bit unclear about the the best way to defeat enemies. Overall he was notorious for giving lower reviews to games then most. Still, in a sea of biased and payed off reviewers, he stood strong and refused to give way to the standard template.

It's no surprise. Gamespot let him go. But the circumstances of this seem... Fishy, to say the least. If you have looking at their site, they have ALLOT of Kane and Lynch: Dead Men advertising up. Jeff gave Kane and Lynch a 6.0 out of 10, which supposedly enraged publisher Eido's, causing them to cancel hundreds of thousands of dollars of adverting in the future. This cost poor Jeff his job. Harsh.

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