after posting your two cents, i might remind everyone that the more hits the site gets, the more valuable advertising space becomes... use of the site, even to protest, is a little hypocritical. pleeenty of other places with forums filled up with this debate.

i'm a long time gamespot user, and i came to trust the reviews here. whether or not jeff's firing was a result of his Kane and Lynch review, pressure from eidos has been confirmed to be a factor.

here is a quote from gamespot's rating mission statement. look for a link below any verdict on the site.

"I've seen a lot of advertisements on your site from specific game companies. Does advertising affect your editorial mission in any way, shape, or form?"
Absolutely, positively not. Never in GameSpot's history has money changed hands with regard to a review, nor have we ever altered our verdict about any game due to advertiser pressure. We accept advertising from game publishers so that we can continue to provide you with free, high-quality services. However, GameSpot's business model is founded on the concept that if we provide our users with consistently trustworthy content, then they will visit us often and in great numbers. It is this large, dedicated audience that advertisers wish to speak to. We have operated on these principles for years and will continue to do so.

i had read this two weeks back, and i am now utterly dissapointed with gamespot. such a hole in their integrity has pretty much made me lose faith in them. i used gamespot almost daily, for everything i wanted to know about a game. pressure from advertisers? maybe. firing a trusted reviewer working here for 11 years because his review made advertisers mad? that's just wrong.

AHH! WHY!!? 

as dissapointing as this is, you have to look on the bright side. there's been a lot of talk about them cutting the underwater part of the creature stage, so more development time might prevent this. at least we have stuff like crysis and world in conflict on the way.

Science. However, I am open to the possibility of something greater than us. I just don't think any religion knows what it is.Rhazakna

mostly science, that's what i'll live my life believing. but i agree with that ^^^^^ 

[QUOTE="Hinata237"]Thats AWESOME. I saw the first few seconds and that is so awesome. I saved it to my favs so I can watch it later.UnknownSniper65

wow dude your an ass...those are soldiers have families....How would you like it if someone killed your family and posted a video of it on youtube for the world to see?

give him a break, i don't think he meant he thought it was awesome to watch these people die. 

claiming responsibility isn't the same thing as being proven to do it. george bush could say he did it, but that wouldn't make it true, now would it?

however, now that we are completely submerged in the war on terror, everything that goes wrong in the mid-east is al-qaeda's fault. catching osama is the best thing the administration could do right now, as it would give them a trophy to prove how well the war in the mid-east is going.