Responses to the Gamespot / Gerstmann / Eidos fallout
This isn’t really Wii or Nintendo related, but an important ‘gaming news’ issue anyway. Most readers who follow general gaming news have probably heard a lot about the Gamespot-Eidos-Gerstmann affair already .. the executive summary is this:
The “sometimes controversial” Jeff Gerstmann reviews the new Eidos game Kane and Lynch and gives it a mediocre score. Most other reviewers agree with his analysis.
Jeff Gerstmann is fired.
Accusations and speculation fly that Eidos put pressure on Gamespot to fire Gerstmann, since Gamespot also has some advertising deals with Eidos.
It looks like Eidos also might have put some fake or misrepresented review scores on the official Kane and Lynch site.
There are lots of interesting responses to these events, debating the state of ethics in game journalism and the state of game reviews in general.
So far there has been little comment of interest from the parties actually involved, but it will be certainly interesting to see how this all plays out. Gamespot has already lost a huge amount of credibility in my book, but lets see how they do the damage control …
