Friday November 30, 2007
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Friday November 30, 2007 | Gamers Fight Back | Games |
Gamers are fighting mad about the termination of a game reviewer who gave a low score to a game promoted heavily on his site.
Gamespot reviewer Jeff Gerstmann gave a score or 6/10 to Kane and Lynch. Publisher Eidos, who paid big ad bucks on Gamestop, wasn't happy, and Gerstmann was fired. Read all about it here: 1 2 3
But gamers are getting the last laugh. Upset at such blatant interference, they are giving the game scores of 1/10 and writing their own bad reviews using Gamespot's own user feedback section. As such, the game's average user score is at 2.8/10. Web 2.0 is a two-edged sword.
So, let this be a lesson to other companies. You do more harm than good throwing your weight around. Perhaps all of this negative attention will also boost sales, but I sure hope not.
Update: There are also reports that he left after his written review was edited. CNET's daily news podcast, Buzz Out Loud, was told not to comment today (CNET own's Gamespot) so perhaps they will have something to say on Monday.
Tags: cnet games gamespot payola reviews
November 30, 2007 01:29 PM PST Permalink | Comments [0] |
Saturday March 17, 2007 | CNET Gets It Wrong: Again | Games |
I really don't haven't anything against CNET, but their sloppy reporting once again forces my blogging hand.
This time it's CNET's list of the 10 Most Important Games of All Time. The list itself is pretty good (and it is subjective, so I can't fault them there), but the #3 entry for Zork says this:
Zork, once MIT hacker jargon for an unfinished program, according to Wikipedia, spawned the term "adventure game" in 1980.
Well, that is just wrong. Anyone who knows anything about text-based adventure games, knows that they all came from a game called adventure! a.k.a. "Colossal Caves" or ADVENT.
I checked the Wikipedia entries for Zork, ADVENT and adventure game, and none of them make that claim. In fact, they all say that ADVENT was the first adventure game. Yes, Wikipedia entries change, but I checked the history for the Zork entry and as far back as 2001 (just weeks after the entry was created) it states that Zork was influenced by, and came after, ADVENT.
It took me two minutes to make those checks. For people who pretend to be reporters, they should try harder. This isn't to say that Zork wasn't important and shouldn't be on the list, but they should get their facts straight.
Read hear more about ADVENT.
Tags: cnet | zork | advent | adventure games | games
Tags: advent adventure cnet games wrong zork
March 17, 2007 12:03 PM PDT Permalink | Comments [1] |
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