Jeff Gerstmann has finally revealed what happened all those year ago
MC and I wrote a great many posts about the story of Mr. Gerstmann being fired by his Gamespot bosses for his review of Kane and Lynch. His review of K&L was lukewarm at best. Due to the heavy advertising of K&L on Gamespot, many bloggers and gamers conjectured that they fired him due to pressure from the publisher.
There was a lot of fallout due to this information allegedly being leaked. My favorite part about the story was that Gamespot straight up lied about the reason behind Mr. G's firing. From Wiki, (( GameSpot denied that Eidos influenced the firing of Gerstmann at the time.[14][18] However, as of March 2012, the non-disclosure agreement that withheld details of the editor's termination was nullified and subsequently revealed that the firing was indeed due to threats of Eidos pulling advertising revenue away from GameSpot as a result of Jeff's poor review))
Because of a gag order, Mr. G couldn't talk about it. Back in March, he finally revealed what really happpened. And, it is very close to the truth. Check out the video and jump ahead to 8:00.
It is very interesting to listen to his take of the story. Game companies threaten to remove ad money all the time, but it was this incident that got them caught red handed. I also think K&L also suffered because of the fallout too.
Jeff talking about K&L II. Very amusing now knowing all the history...
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