Rumors that Gamespot’s sacked Jeff Gerstmann for his poor review of a game that spent a lot of money for advertising on Gamespot slams a large question-mark on the said Game greview giant’s integrity. One who visited gamespot recently would notice how Eidos purchased ad placements on some of Gamespot’s busiest pages and one could only guess how much Eidos actually spent on those but it’s definitely big, given the high demand for those ad placements because of the Christmas Season and other million dollar games that were released recently that is in dire need of advertising from media giants. Though it’s still a rumor, evidences of Jeff Gerstmann’s untimely termination from Gamespot is due to his poor review (6.0) on Eidos’ Kane and Lynch has been floating around the net and it’s difficult to ignore or brand as “coincidental”. Gamespot and Cnet’s, or even Jeff’s silence in this matter is further fueling the rage from gaming Journalists and Jeff’s (new found) supporters all over the web.

GameSpot takes its editorial integrity extremely seriously. For over a decade, Gamespot and the many members of its editorial team have produced thousands of unbiased reviews that have been a valuable resource for the gaming community. At CNET Networks, we stand behind the editorial content that our teams produce on a daily basis.
-Cnet on joystiq

What intensifies the mystery here is that; in Giant gaming review sites like these, before reviews should actually be posted on the site, the review/article should go through a series of process and approval from the higher ups. If the higher ups or superior approves the review rating and the descriptive review then the article gets a green light and gets posted. That way, if theres something wrong with the article, one person doesn’t have to carry the burden of the “blame”, but the whole team. But looking at the possibility of how Jeff “could have” been fired, one could not be blamed for raising an eyebrow.

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