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Gamespot's editorial director Jeff Gerstmann gets fired for his review on "Kane & Lynch".

Gamespot Rating System: http://www.gamespot.com/misc/reviewguidelines.html
Jeff Gerstmann's Review of Kane & Lynch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBD0cUeeEQc
Gamespot's statement on the whole issue: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6183666/spot-on-gamespot-on-gerstmann
Kotaku's take: http://kotaku.com/328244/gamespot-editor-fired-over-kane--lynch-review
Penny Arcade strips on the matter: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/24, http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/30

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  • Except he was right and all the glaring problems of that game are apparent throughout.

  • No wonder Gamespot went down hill. firing him over a review just made it more obvious to the viewers/readers that they were bought out by the publisher to do a good review. A stupid move by gamespot that, as time has proven, cost them a lot of credibility / viewership / subscribers(paid subscribers) / money.

    Now Gametrailers pretty much took over.

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  • As much as I hate gamespot for doing what they did to Jeff, if they hadn't have done it we wouldn't have Giant Bomb today. Thank u gamespot for being assholes! something good came from something bad. :)

  • i can't stop staring at the mustache. it is very good

  • He looks like kane from kane and lynch lol

  • Giantbomb > Gamespot.

  • Don't trust gamespot or any game site. Go with your heart and play what you want. Jeff Gerstmann is a hero.

  • @warag complete with funny accent.

  • It's stupid, if a game's a bad game then how can you force someone to talk to thousands of viewers and say it's a good game. What Eidos should have done is confront I-O Interactive (developers of Kane and Lynch) and said, 'Hey, you gave us a product that wasn't up to scratch and we advertised the hell out of it and now we look bad' and maybe have threatened to not publish Kane and Lynch in the future

  • Yahtzee is the best critic

  • @mangaas Giant Bomb is probably the spiritual successor to Gamespot at this point.

  • Unfortunately Honest isn't a trouble free

    There's a word for people who lie a lot "Liars"

    But there isn't an official word (as far as i'm concerned) for people who tell the truth a lot

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