If it was only about Gamespot...... Unfortunately, in one way or another, most of the major gaming sites are slipping. Sort of in the same way the quality of the games are slipping!
Just as in the most interesting games now coming from independents rather than the big companies, so the best reviews and features seem to now be at the smaller gaming sites that are not bought and sold by the big companies, and tend to have to buy the games, hence fairer reviews!
The feeling I get is the whole video gaming business slowly slipping down, games don't seem to have the same quality or gameplay, customer care through lack of patches and DRM from the publishers less than it's ever been and More and more gamers finding other things to do, hence a huge rise in casual gaming.
Imagine a book industry that no longer sold hardbacks or paperbacks, and the only reading that took place was of 8 page comics, that's how I fel gaming is going, a couple million people playing bejewelled forever and not actually being a gamer, and hardcore AAA games just slowly disappearing. This seems to be happening first on PC, but consoles don't seem to far behind.
Finally, you have to worry about a site called Gamespot that doesn't have the word 'Gamespot' in it's spellchecker, leaving Gamespot being unrecognized! That's a sign if I ever saw one!
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