A SENIOR HACK working for the C|Net affiliated gamer"s website Gamespot apparently has been fired for panning a game marketed by a major advertiser.
Reportedly Gamespot Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann was summarily fired because game publisher Eidos didn"t like his negative review of its first-person shooter game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.
Gerstmann"s text review of the game gave it a score of only 6 out of 10, but it seems his video review was even more direct, criticising it for, among other failings, "impossible to like" characters, a "lazy script" and excessive profanity.