In Game news: The great rumor. December 3, 2007
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If you been following the gamespot site, then the news that Jeff Gerstmann’s removal from the editorial staff isn’t old news. Nor is the Rumor that a stated employe has stepped forward at ValleyWag to tell it like it is, which can be read about at Kotaku.com
Granted I myself have never gone to the gamespot.com site, but a majority of other sites I frequent including the Girl_Gamers livejournal community has been vocal about it over the last few days.
Now there are ideas that perhaps he was fired because of his review of Kain and Lynch: Dead Men, which according to posts went live when the site was in fact advertising the game in full. 
This ofcourse hasn’t been proven, and is only catagorized as a rumor. The true details haven’t been made as of yet truly public. Also the video review was taken down with the reason being that it was no longer accurate with the written review.
Granted, while I am a gamer, and this is the kind of news I do tend to follow. I however do not own an xbox, yet I know some of my closer friends in my personal social circle and some of the guys at wotg do too. So this should spark some interesting conversation over the next few days.
As a whole, the going trend for gamers it seems, is to stop going to gamespot, or even for that matter just not read reviews anymore from the site, while continuing to read favored blogs from the editorial staff.
The impact?
Gamers are pissed off. Jeff G. was well known for his harsh crits on games, they were honest and helped people decide if it was worth it to plunk down their hard earned money. People over at 4chan have also made commentary on the issue, including posting his picture, as was reported to me from a regular 4chan board visitor.
How much longer will it take to find out the truth?
Only the people at Gamespot can release that information, and most people would wait on the edges of their seats waiting for this, while others like myself are wondering if such news will ever be released.
It all boils down to this: Jeff G. was fired, after ten years of service, of honest crits for the gamer fanbase. That’s ten years of service, ending with a big bang on the internet in the gamer circles.
Sites of interest and relation:
Kotaku’s Take on it.
What Jacob Bond of the webcomic BlueSky has to say
The inital report about Jeff Gerstmann’s being fired from Kotaku
TimSpot at the gamespot website had this to say about User Gamespot