by ZeroAerey25 . on Nov 30, 2007
"Our game sucks, eh? YOU suck! No more ads for you."
While not technically MMO news, this is interesting: Shacknews is reporting that Jeff Gerstmann, executive editor at GameSpot, was fired for writing a negative review of advertiser Eidos's Kane & Lynch.
Rumors have been swirling today that Jeff Gerstmann, executive editor at CNET-owned major video game site GameSpot, was fired after giving a generally unimpressed review of Io Interactive's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Gerstmann awarded the game a 6.0. [Edit: Gerstmann had particularly negative words in his video review, which was removed from the site by GameSpot today.] (Though Shacknews does not score its reviews, our own Kane & Lynch review was similar in its verdict.)
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.
Read the full article at Shacknews and then join the discussion.