Fired Over a Negative Review?

There's a rumour going around the gaming news sites that longtime game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann has been fired from Gamespot due to advertiser pressure. The game in question is Kane and Lynch: Dead Men by Eidos which is currently being advertised on the Gamespot website. The game scored a 6/10 which along with the "tone" of the review has alledgedly upset Eidos who then threatened to pull its ad campaign.

The review itself is still available on Gamespot with an editors note at the bottom indicating the review has been updated since its original posting. The video review seems to have vanished however, but here it is for you to make up your own mind.



It has been confirmed that he's no longer at Gamespot but the reasons have not, with many "no comments" being offered. If true it's a rather worrying state of affairs and like thay say, there's no smoke without fire.

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