Just to be total dicks, Sarcastic Gamer has issued Tomb Raider: Underworld a 7.9 after Eidos attempted to FORBID any review scores lower than 8 from being released before Monday.  The move by Sarcastic Gamer to trash the game comes despite the fact that no one on our staff has even played it.  Editor Lono [...]

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SOMEONE’S BASEMENT – Candy bar guru and internet famous game journalist, Jeff Gerstmann, revealed an ambitious career-revitalizing plan this morning. Sadly, nobody seems to give a damn what he thinks, or if he does have a podcast that’s topping the iTunes charts. While several journalists attended the event, none of them took [...]

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By now, just about anyone who’s anyone knows about the recent controversy involving Gamespot. Long time GS staff member, senior editor and reviewer, Jeff Gerstmann, has apparently been fired after giving Kane & Lynch a mediocre review. The ongoing conflict between Eidos, Gamespot and GS’s parent company Cnet continues to rage on.
What about poor little [...]

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Oh the madness! Our original plans for Episode 18 were slightly tweaked by the GamespotGate scandal, and rather than cut anything out, we’re delivering a slightly larger portion of the Sarcastic Gamer Podcast. It’s our first show in more than a month with the whole crew present.
In this episode:

Our initial reaction to the [...]

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A Sarcastic Gamer satirical look at the GameSpotGate controversy.

Gamers from around the world stormed the offices of Cnet’s Gamespot today, setting fires and destroying everything in sight. The small contigent of police on hand to maintain order were simply overrun by the sheer number of angry nerds.
“At first it was like one guy [...]

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Do you like to hear the same talking points and rumors repeated over and over again? Great! Simply visit any gaming-related website all this week (not owned by CNET), and you can read nonstop bullsh*t about Gamespot’s little mix-up. Who would have thought that journalistic integrity was such a big deal?
For the past 48 hours, no [...]

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The video game soap opera, “Gamespotgate 07,” is still going full swing. You can’t post a review for Kane & Lynch on Gamespot anymore (it’s locked now)…since tons of disgruntled Jeff fans have been posting a rating of 1 out of 10; dropping the user rating down to a sweet 2.6 out of 10. The [...]

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Did Pepsi cave to the groundswell of public discontent towards Gamespot and pull its Mountain Dew support? Sure looks that way. Yesterday, the site was all dressed in Mountain Dew, as we reported that most game ads had disappeared from the site, replaced with a lot of Dew, Dell, and Sony.
This apocalypse for CNET’s video [...]

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A sarcastic editorial

Well this brand new site called Gamespot certainly caused a stir this week. I don’t know if you heard, but…. they gave an average review to Kane and Lynch! OMG!!!! Inconceivable!?!?!?!?
I’ve played the game and it certainly is not average. In fact, it sucks. The characters sound alike, the story is hackneyed and [...]

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Yesterday, video game ads began to disappear from the Gamespot front page faster than free beer at a Lynrd Skynrd concert. First, the obvious one, Kane and Lynch, followed shortly thereafter by Assasins Creed and several others. But not all advertisers seem to mind swimming the boiling waters in which the [...]

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This is NOT a fiction Friday Article
For those just joining this geek-ridden soap opera:

Eidos was spending some really heavy money to promote Kane and Lynch: Dead Men with Gamespot and apparently pulled it as a result of the “bad” review by Gamespot Editor, Jeff Gerstmann.
Gamespot fired Jeff.
The world stopped spinning
A tidal wave of backlash descends [...]

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This is NOT a Fiction Friday article

Suggested reading:
Kotaku -Gamespot Editor Fired Over Kane & Lynch Review?
Joystiq -Rumor: Gamespot’s editorial director fired over Kane & Lynch review
SG -Rumor: Game$pot Fire$ a Reviewer for Ca$h
The outrage over the dismissal of Gamespot’s former Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann now seems to be impacting Gamespot [...]

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NOTE: This is NOT a Fiction Friday Article

Jeff Gerstmann, a reviewer for Gamespot, has allegedly been canned due to pressure from Eidos over his_review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. According_to_Kotaku, an anonymous tipster says that Eidos threatened to pull their ad campaign from Gamespot, after Gerstmann gave the game an average rating score. Gamespot [...]

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