PA’s “The New Games Journalism”
Jeff Gerstmann, Executive Editor of GameSpot, lost his job over a review of Kane & Lynch. Read the entire story after the jump. If that link goes to “The Story of My Life”, go here.
EDIT: It turns out that Tim Tracy, one of the employees at GameSpot, has also left. My respect to him, and best wishes to what he finds out there.
EDIT 2: Greg Kasavin has also put in his two cents. Props to him. I know he’s off somewhere else other than GameSpot, so I’m sure he’ll be wanting this stuff to spread. 1UP has also staged a protest in front of the GameSpot building, respect to them.
Rant after the break.
To the rest of you GameSpot employees… I understand your concern in that you all don’t want to lose your jobs. However, you are going to lose them anyway. This is a cascade reaction that has begun and it is only going to eat away at you. I highly suggest you all speak up, reveal yourselves, and that all of you leave GameSpot. It’s not a place you can work at anymore, as it has become such a hellhole for being able to write anything in any respect. It may leave you without a job, but at least with fewer regrets, in that you at least stood up for what you considered right, as a reviewer. If you have the balls to take up such a thing, like TimT did, then I commend you.