Oh, goodie. Just what my clogged-with-crap Twitter feed needs: more spamtastic Spam!  Announced in a press release last night, GameSpot and Raptr are partnering up to make their services more obnoxious then ever!
Gentlemen, this could very well break the internet as we know it.  Follow me after the jump.

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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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