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Fired GameSpot editor to start new site

By Paul Boutin, 7:00 PM on Mon Jan 21 2008, 859 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Jeff Gerstmann, the ten-year CNET GameSpot veteran believed to have been fired for negative reviews of advertisers' games, is now rumored to be starting another site with GameSpot founder Vince Broady. 1UP editor Sam Kennedy buried the news in an endless thumbsucker about the influence of advertisers on game reviews. No word on how the new site's ad-dollars-versus-reviews-quality policies will be any different from the rest. Jeff?

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