• 1Dec 07

  I...Consider Myself..the Luckiest Man...(A GameSpot Farewell)

  I've been a GameSpot member for over 2 years, 7300 forum posts, 160 blog posts, and 60 reviews, counting my first account. Sure, I stuck around despite an account dying via glitch. I've been here through the utter collapse of reviewing quality preceeded by the utter collapse of site quality. But finally GameSpot has dropped the bomb big enough to shatter the community, beckoning my final leave of this shadow of former glory.
  
  My very first blog post was The Meaning of Reviews, so it has an interesting sense of closure for this site taking such a blow because of its complete loss of integrity on this very point. If you're looking to find me, I'll be at 1up.com under the same name. And with that, I will conclude with a history of my complaining about GameSpot. Goodbye.
  
  The State of Reviews - GameSpot, you're on Notice
  
  Foresight was 20/20 - Twilight Princess Review
  
  GameSpot, For What are you Good?
  
  GameSpot, you make it too easy
  
  That was quick
  
  8 months of complaining has finally done it
  
  Sequels - There's no pleasing everyone
  
  So I say thank you for the glitches, the bugs I'm seeing
  
  You're killing me, GameSpot
  
  GameSpot Reviews - Always Interesting
  
  Are You Kidding Me?
  
  GameSpot is Officially the Mr. Burns of Games Journalism
  
  Baten Kaitos Origins - GameSpot review and ripping off GG
  
  Oh. Snap. Sad but Hilarious
  • Posted Dec 1, 2007 12:01 pm GMT
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• 29Nov 07

  Oh. Snap. Sad but Hilarious.

  Well, I and those around me have bemoaned GameSpot reviews for a long time, among the state of other things. Well, it's come around in a sad way, yet strangely in comic form,
  
  
  
  And according to Penny-Arcade's Gabriel,
  "The comic is true. You should see the news breaking soon."
  "Jeff G. got canned. Tycho will talk about it more tomorrow. We have a couple sources inside that gave us the whole scoop. I'm not sure if the news sites even know yet."
  
  You may also have noticed that the video review of Kane & Lynch has been pulled.
  
  It's sad because this is a terrible thing to happen to someone, even if I think little of his reviews.
  
  It's hilarious, because GameSpot has hit rock-bottom. A fuller explanation of the rumour is seen on Kotaku and explains that it was basically money from Eidos that shoved Jeff out the door.
  
  Welcome to the end of credibility, people. I may have disliked GameSpot's reviews before, but the weight of their words are worth less than the US Government's.
  
  Equally hilarious is that this comes in the wake of the GG suspension fiasco in over criticising a GameSpot reviewer. Pretty hard to defend them now, people.
  
  EDIT: More staff gone. Tim Tracy. Unknown if it's related, but given the timing, it seems likely.
  
  
  
  • Posted Nov 29, 2007 6:57 pm GMT
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• 27Nov 07

  Mini-Wheats Mystery

  I've been baffled by this for a while, and wasn't even quite sure whether my observation was correct or if my taste was deceiving.
  
  But I am positive: There is a Mini-Wheats imposter.
  
  Inexplicably, if you buy Mini-Wheats, you will get one of two kinds. One is the same as it has been for the past 20 years -- fresh, wheaty goodness. However, you may instead get the imposter, the plastic wheat. The wheat is more separated and looks a little plasticky. It has more of a tang typical of cheaper products. It's seriously as if the grocer took the cereal from a no-name brand and put it in a Mini-Wheats box.
  
  It has been going on for far too long for it to be a permanent switch in manufacturing, as it would have happened already, and other boxes would have expired or sold out. Unless they switched some facilities. They could also have a bad facility or something.
  
  I'm in the midst of a good box now, of which I will take a picture of one of the good ones. Then I'll do the same at a later point with a bad one. The conspiracy must be known!
  • Posted Nov 27, 2007 9:58 pm GMT
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