A number of Ziff Davis staffers (including a few writers for 1UP, arguably GameSpot's biggest competition) recently crafted an uplifting banner and marched to the GameSpot offices just two blocks away. The demonstration was a response to the recent unexplained firing of GameSpot contributor Jeff Gerstmann. After hearing the rumors that Gerstmann was fired due to pressure from advertisers following his lackluster review of Kane and Lynch, the ZD staff decided to show their support for their fellow gaming journalist.
Patrick Klepek, news editor for 1UP, stressed to us that the rally was not intended to mock Gerstmann or the GameSpot staff. He said he recognizes that "even though 1UP and GameSpot are competition, what's happening over there includes industry-wide ramifications, when the dust finally settles." That is, assuming that the rumors of shady dealings surrounding Gerstmann's termination from the company prove to be true.
While 1UP's status as GameSpot's lead competitor might raise concerns that they're just fueling the anti-CNET fires that have been popping up around GameSpot's forums, it's our opinion that this was a sincere showing of solidarity and good will among video game writers. We certainly hope that GameSpot's staff gets the message.
I dont think that's true because i and other people from places with moe than one language can speak more, but that doesn't mean we're better than other people or make us more clever, it's just that we're used to more languages than one when we are growning from children
I think a gwd idea whould be to make it legal in your counrty, these things dont seem to happen as much in europe because it's not seen as something cool to do because det is not allwoed
no i dont think that your name is your personality because your name is given before you are born, and i don't think you grow into your name because when you are a small child you don't know what an average Karin is supposed to be like, and i know some other girls called Karin and they arenot the same personality as me
i dont live there at the moment and when i did it was on a community farm so i dont know about how the money works, they still have thier sterling currency there but the rest of us use euros cause is easier
does any body else like more european stuff like royksopp or architecture in Helsinki? or do you just like american metal? i have music uhhhh i dont think you like it though cause its not like that
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