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A few days after the firing, Gamespot was asked to comment on the Gerstmann firing, though the spokesperson for the site couldn't disclose grounds for dismissal for legal reasons. On the issue of Eidos response to the review, the spokesperson said, "It has been confirmed that Eidos' respresentatives expressed their displeasure to their appropriate contacts at Gamespot, but not to the editorial directly. It was not the first time a publisher has voiced disappointment with a game review, and it won't be the last."
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What was accurate, according to the Gamespot staffer, was the account of user "gamespot" at sister site Valleywag. The anonymous blow-by-blow "could have been written by a stenographer", indicating that it perfectly captured the sequence of events and emotional landscape at the company—one of confusion, fear and anger.
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Gamespot.com does in-depth previews of new games that are coming out soon. These previews include information on different aspects of game play, background of the game, things to look for while playing, and ... videos that exemplify some of the best parts of the game. After reading one of the previews on Gamespot.com you will know if a game is worth buying or not.
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: @ Spot 778How about by not selling front page coverage like Gamespot's "gumball" section? That good enough? Sam Kennedy has been one of the most insightful voices of the industry since before the term "games journalism" was even coined. The rote more»
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The outrage over the dismissal of Gamespot’s former Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann now seems to be impacting Gamespot from the other end of the business plan. Not the advertising channels, but you know, the part of the plan where people come and actually pay for memberships…. and read stuff.
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Kontiki licenses a back-end suite of applications—including a network "publisher", "protector", "connector", and "manager"—called the "Kontiki Content Delivery Management System" to customers including Gamespot and other companies. Users gain access to the network through the front-end client software, such as the one Gamespot promotes as the "Download Manager".
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