Busy Busy Weekend

Two big news stories are buzzing through the tubes today, but unfortunately I don't currently have much time to go through them. In turn I will simply briefly explain the scenarios and link to full articles for those interested to dig deeper.

Jeff Gerstmann, video game reviewer over at Gamespot was fired due to his scathing 6.0 review of Kane and Lynch. Apparently Eidos paid Gamespot for a large spread ad across the main site, (see: one of those obnoxious skins) and upon receiving the review from Gerstmann Eidos pulled the payments for the ad. Acting just as quickly to this Gamespot fired Gerstmann. So that's what we can expect from Journalistic Integrity huh? If you can't be honest and crap on the hand that feeds you in the gaming industry perhaps you shouldn't take hand outs from companies who may in fact make bad games.

Full Article Here

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