Jeff Gurstmann, the Editor In Chief at GameSpot.com has been there for 11-years!

News recently broke out Thursday afternoon, that Gurstmann was locked out of his office and escorted off the CNet premises.
CNet is GameSpot's parent company.

Rumors quickly started flowing around the net that Gurstmann had been fired due to the low review score he gave Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.

Eidos Interactive recently purchased ALOT of advertising from CNet to be displayed on GameSpot.com throughout the month. Users could make their own Kane & Lynch trailers, they could pick a K&L skin for the site.

So natrually, when GameSpot score K&L a 6.0 out of 10, Eidos wasn't happy. A few days later, Gurstmann's video review of Kane & Lynch went up on the site with even more negative things to say about the game. Specifically Gurstmann is quoted to say "Kane & Lynch is an ugly, ugly game." He also goes on to say that the script is "lazy" with its constant and tasteless swearing. Gurstmann also claims some of the game mechanics are broken, and the AI is "dumb". At the very end of the video review, Gurstmann does recommend viewers try the multiplayer aspect to the game, but ONLY if you don't pay full price for the game, since the game isn't a very good purchase. Eidos was even more infuriated. They pressured GameSpot management to do something about by threatening to pull their current advertising campaign, and refuse to do any more business with CNet.

CNet promptly responded and locked Gurstmann's office Thursday morning. He was fired and escorted off the premises later that morning. All because of his OPINION on a particular video game!

Since then, Eidos forums, the Kane & Lynch forums, GameSpot forums, and some of the larger video game forums are being invaded by gamers retaliating for this action.

CNet's decision to fire Gurstmann over a games review score goes to show the kind of credibility that is to be found among internet game review sites. This is why the entire gaming community should be aware of whats going on. Gurstmann refused to sell out and wanted the consumers to know just how Kane & Lynch stacked up.