Score submitting for Kane and Lynch is currently disabled.

I personally will no longer be using Gamespot.com for reviews. If advertisement leverage is how they review games... then they can shove their bias'd wads up there ass.

My friend brought kane and lynch today, we played the first 2 levels on co-op, and yes, it indeed does suck!

In before lock.

Report: GameSpot's Gerstmann Fired Due to Negative Kane & Lynch Review

According to the reports, the layoff came after Kane & Lynch publisher Eidos took issue with the review and threatened to pull its considerable ad contract. GameSpot's front page is currently almost entirely re-skinned with Kane & Lynch imagery.

The rumor began bouncing around various industry circles over the past day, and this evening was reported by Kotaku. Popular webcomic Penny Arcade posted a strip about the alleged incident tonight, outside of its normal publishing schedule.

Shacknews can confidently confirm via its own sources that Gerstmann was indeed fired yesterday from his position at GameSpot. The source declined to comment as to whether the firing was directly related to the reported Eidos situation, but the circumstances are suspicious at the least.

Gerstmann had been an employee at GameSpot for about a decade, and took the place of former executive editor Greg Kasavin when Kasavin left the company to work for Electronic Arts as a producer.

Update: CNET employee Tim Tracy has posted what appears to be a farewell notice on his GameSpot blog. Until July, Tracy was an editor at GameSpot, and since then has been working for CNET-owned MP3.com. If indeed Tracy is departing, it is unknown if it is related to Gerstmann's dismissal.

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That's what Eidos has to do with it... They threatened to pull their entire advertisement contract with GS because of the negative review.

Well if the user's on this site would stop blowing this out of proportion then maybe that wouldnt happen... =0Shade-Blade

Whats eidos gotta do with this?GamingThief

Eidos paid to advertise Kane & Lynch on GameSpot. Apparently, they paid a LOT, and the game was HEAVILY advertised, to the point of saturation.

Editor Jeff Gerstmann gave the game a low score and tore it a new **** over the bugs. Eidos complained to GameSpot. GameSpot waited until all the other reviewers had submitted their reviews for the Fall games, then fired Jeff Gerstmann over his review of Kane & Lynch. They also removed Jeff Gerstmann's video review of the game from the site, because it was particularly harsh toward the game.

Gamers started posting poor reviews of the game, so GameSpot disabled user reviews for Kane & Lynch.

Eidos paid for a good review, but didn't get it.

I remember PC Gamer doing the same for Sierra and the Tribes 2 game. When released, it was so buggy it wouldn't install half the time, and you couldn't even play more than 15 minutes without an unhandled exception error crashing you to the Windows desktop. The magazine didn't mention the bugs, and gave the game a glowing review, because that's what Sierra's advertising dollars bought them.

The old PG Games and Strategy Plus magazine did the same for Halo, because Microsoft had paid big advertising dollars for positive reviews. When it was released, no PC on the planet could support its shader model or run the game at more than 30fps. Even with a brand-new, state-of-the-art machine, you had to turn everything down to keep the game from becoming a slide show. The magazines didn't mention any of this, because Microsoft had paid for good reviews.

Now that I know how GameSpot operates, I'll be removing the site from my browser. Obviously, their reviews can't be trusted, because they're going to write whatever the publishers pay them to write.

gamespot is just trying to cover Eiodos' ass.skatatay

Well if the user's on this site would stop blowing this out of proportion then maybe that wouldnt happen... =0Shade-Blade

[QUOTE="Shade-Blade"]Well if the user's on this site would stop blowing this out of proportion then maybe that wouldnt happen... =0BrendanBox39

but edios wasnt going to keep their ads up.

and jeff got fired over the money deal gamespot had with edios.

if the site is going to give into ad money, what wont it do? this site lost its integrity.

[QUOTE="BrendanBox39"][QUOTE="Shade-Blade"]Well if the user's on this site would stop blowing this out of proportion then maybe that wouldnt happen... =0GlassDominion

but edios wasnt going to keep their ads up.

and jeff got fired over the money deal gamespot had with edios.

if the site is going to give into ad money, what wont it do? this site lost its integrity.

[QUOTE="GlassDominion"]

[QUOTE="BrendanBox39"][QUOTE="Shade-Blade"]Well if the user's on this site would stop blowing this out of proportion then maybe that wouldnt happen... =0BrendanBox39

but edios wasnt going to keep their ads up.

and jeff got fired over the money deal gamespot had with edios.

if the site is going to give into ad money, what wont it do? this site lost its integrity.

the only problem with "check what ads are on the site" strategy is, money could also be passing under the table. gamespot as a company has shown its not up to the task of reviewing games the right way by firing jeff because they almost lost a contract, none of the reviews should be taken seriously.