I won't lie: Gerstmann ("The Gerst" as me and my friends sometimes called him) was my favorite Gamespot staffer. I don't really care about his controversial review scores as generally I don't ever really care about a review score from any one individual website - I'd rather trust Metacritic and Gamerankings.

But I enjoyed the humor he brought to Gamespot. Him and Ryan Davis are awesome.

I had really begun to warm up to Gamespot after all but abandoning 1up and never really caring about IGN ever. But I guess after this, I am on the road looking for a new major videogame site to call "home", if you could even call it that.

Or, you know, I could just use that long-dormant blogger account I have. Whatever.

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Update: A lot of people in internet land are claiming that Jeff wasn't terminated over his Kane & Lynch Review, and that everybody is making a big deal out of nothing, etc. While there is no definitive answer, keep this in mind:

Gamespot removed Jeff Gerstmann's video review. I could see this being "bad timing" any other way, but the fact that they went out of their way to remove a video review for the game that was already posted (yet Jeff's other reviews on the site are fine) says it all. If it was just simply bad timing there would be some sort of statement from somebody, you'd think. But the fact that the involved parties are keeping their mouths shut (either forcefully or at their own discretion) says to me that this is a big problem internally and that if the truth came out it would pretty much spell the end for CNET, Gamespot, and maybe even Eidos as respected business establishments.

Regardless of what's actually happening, all CNET and Eidos are making themselves look really, really bad without sufficient damage control. Either they don't see this as a big enough problem to comment on, or they're scrambling to make up a response that sounds "correct" - it's quick and easy to tell the truth, but corporate spin takes time.