Archive for the tag "gamespot"
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Platformer, Puzzler, Sony, UK | 7 Comments »
Both Eurogamer and Gamespot have launched UK-only competitions for LittleBigPlanet.
It's a design-a-level affair, with the winners getting their work in the game and a free PS3, among other stuff. Bargain.
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Posted in Action, EA, PC, Shooter | No Comments »
Should you need any more indication that Crysis Warhead is worth the money, Gamespot's posted a review score of 9/10. Snip:
Warhead's single-player campaign should take you no more than six ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Eidos, Hot, Journalism, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Speaking to GamesRadar, Kane & Lynch director Jens Peter Kurup has spoken out about the effect of the now infamous Gamespot review of his game, saying that the team took ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in America, Journalism, Trade | No Comments »
According to this GameDaily piece, Josh Larson - the exec often as being involved with the "removal" of Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot last year - has left CNET and is ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Adventure, PS2, PS3, Platformer, Wii, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Gamespot's posted what we're pretty sure is the first impressions piece of Sega's Sonic Unleashed. From the piece:
Based on what we saw we're cautiously optimistic about Sonic Unleashed. Our hunger ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Trade | 16 Comments »
CBS has announced intentions to buy all outstanding CNET stock at a value of $1.8 billion.
"The core businesses of CNET Networks and CBS Interactive represent near perfect category symmetry in ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Journalism, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
Gamespot's given GTA IV a 10, only the fifth in its history. According to this Digg story, the others were Chrono Cross, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Soul ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Casual, DS, Internet, Journalism, Majesco | 4 Comments »
The internet, eh? No one's safe. Alex Navarro, ex-Gamespot writer, was the recipient of a rather snippy email from Majesco after he gave Cooking Mama 2 6/10, which has magically ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Eidos, MMO, PC | No Comments »
Gamespot's offering and exclusive chance to get on the Age of Conan PvP beta weekend, running April 18-20. Find the details here. The site's giving away 15,000 slots on the ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in America, Journalism | No Comments »
Just in case there was any doubt left in anyone's mind that Gamespot ed ex-chief Jeff Gerstmann came to any mutual understanding about his position at Gamespot last year, consider ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in America, Internet, Journalism | No Comments »
Kotaku's reporting that Josh Larson, CNET's VP of games, will be leaving after some "restructuring".
While never officially implicated for the firing of Gamespot's Jeff Gerstmann last year in the now ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in America, Internet, Jobs, Journalism | 2 Comments »
Want to work for Gamespot? Have a definite love for Eidos games? Then take a look at this. Following a string of departures since last November, Gamespot is now on ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in America, Journalism, Microsoft, RPG, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
As you can see here, Gamespot decided not to change the score on its Lost Odyssey review, as reported here. Instead, the reviewer took a look at the load times ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Journalism, Stuff | No Comments »
Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis, the two high profile departures from Gamespot after last year's Lynchgate review horror, have launched a new podcast called Arrow Pointing Down. We're going to ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in GDC 2008, Nintendo, Racing, Wii | No Comments »
Both Gamespot and IGN have posted extensive playtests of Mario Kart Wii today, so if you're up for ploughing through about 20,000 words on a Nintendo racer, you're in luck. ...
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