Kevin Van Ord (former GS employee) had a heart attack.

https://mobile.twitter.com/fiddlecub/status/680961488782135296

Don't know how serious it was, but he was in the hospital for a day. He's wants to lose weight (again) and stop smoking. Remember his dramatic weight loss 4 years ago, where he lost 90 lbs and started eating healthy? Sadly, he regained all the weight. Hope he gets back to good health.

That sucks...then again, with so many Star Wars posts after that he seems to be doing well =D

Damn, hope gets well :(

You make it sound like he died.

Hope he gets better soon.

@magicalclick: I'm not one to point fingers. My English malfunctions all the time =P

Sad to hear.

He was one of the very few good reviewers on GS although he was very inconsistent. He gave very low scores to some good games and very high scores to mediocre ones...

Any type of heart attack is serious, just like having a stroke. The chance of having a recurring attack is much higher now. Hope he gets better soon.

@magicalclick: Those traitorous fingers!! =P

Just because you don't happen to agree with some of the scores he gives doesn't mean he's inconsistent. Believe it or not, there's this thing called different opinions.

I will never understand why people are so self-centered when it comes to review scores. I mean, can't people look beyond their own opinions for even a second?

Anyway, I hope Kevin gets to a healthier state very soon. Heart attacks are a nightmare.

I was away for a while so didn't know that he has left GS. Sorry to hear about his illness. Hope he gets well soon.

Damn. :/ Hope he's alright.

Oh, that's sad. I hope Kevin gets better soon.

That means it wasn't serious at all.

Are you sure it was a heart attack? The tweet makes it seem something less serious. Still, anything to do with the heart is serious, and he's right - it's never too early to care about our heart and adopt a healthy lifestyle. Even if you're already healthy, eating right and exercising is a preventative measure to make sure you stay that way.

Good luck Kevin.

one of my favorite old gamespot reviewers, hope he gets better.

As much as I disagreed with his "professional" opinions I hope he can achieve his goals and live a healthier life. Heart attacks are serious business.

Damn. Hope he gets people.

Time to get a cyborg heart, guy.

That's sad. More than the weight, the smoking is horrible.

Hope he recovers quickly and works hard to lose weight. I didn't know he smoked as well. Its gonna be a tough slog for him.

I hope he's doing fine now and like others have said, I hope he manages to lead a healthier life and stays fit as a horse from here on out.

As has been said, hopefully, he starts engaging in different lifestyle choices and concentrates on the process of healthy living as vegetables can be delicious as a smoothie with some whey protein instead of the product of good health. I think that people emphasizing the importance of a product as greater than a process is a cause of an unnecessary stress and a misunderstanding of priorities.

Best of luck, Kevin. Hope you get well soon.

Food addiction sucks...think that's the only addiction I have. I normally manage to counter balance my over-eating with physical exercise in order not to gain weight but it still sucks...

I remember hearing about the weight loss, but didn't know he gained the weight back. Hopefully this will be a wake up call for him and he can lose the weight again and keep it off. And yeah, no to the smoking too.

Yeah, I know. I hope he's okay now. But...I didn't know he was smoking.

A cyborg heart sounds awesome and would be a fantastic progression of people managing to live longer and healthier lives. Anyway, ouch, sorry to hear this happen to Kevin, I don't think I ever saw his reviews but either way, hope he gets well soon, and can manage to break any bad addictions he might possibly have.

yeah... it happens to over weight people this time of year.

Syko, died two days after Christmas from a heart attack and he really picked up on weight the last two years.

RIP Syko.

Sometimes I have to force myself to eat as even though I'm hungry, I don't have an appetite. Sounds contradictory I know but it's true. My stomach will growl and I'll be like "I don't really feel like eating anything right now." Buuuut...my addiction is staying busy so eating really does kinda get in the way.

When I'm not busy I get bored, when I get bored I get depressed, when I get depressed I get tired and just want to lazy around. So, I stay busy.

Life is one of those "Pick your poison" things...some people it's food, some people drugs, for me...I just gotta stay busy. So maybe just try to find something else to do so you're too busy to eat when you shouldn't be eating? Dunno, never had a food addiction, and hell I love to cook. Cause it's BUSY WORK!

Hope he gets well. I noticed he had lost weight in some of gamespot's live shows.

that sucks

He gave the heart attack a 6 out of 10. Then the hospital pulled his review stating it was factually innaccurate but metacritic refused to change it on their site.

lol

Terrible news but I'm glad to read that KVO is doing better.

This shows the importance of having self discipline, taking responsibility and not blaming others, and diet, exercise, quit smoking and limit alcohol, and overall get in shape.

Weird. This should be clever, but it's not.

Holy shit! You're back! Yessssssssssssss.

Ya he was packing some serious weight right before he left, so this honestly didn't strike me as [i]that[/i] surprising.

@gamerguru100: I have returned! ;)

Hope he gets better and soon. I always liked him although we so often disagreed on games.

dammit! i knew i should have ridiculed the assassins creed review instead. i dropped the ball here and it's totally my fault.

oh well, at least ign gave his heart attack a 9.

get well soon kev.