If all the furore about Jeff being fired over his Kane & Lynch review is true, and I suspect that it is, it is a very dark day for Gamespot. Not only has the site lost one of its most entertaining and knowledgeable staff but it has seriously compromised its integrity into the bargain.

My trust in this site has decreased so much that It wouldn't surprise me to see some sort of Stalinist revisionism over the next few days where Dead Men miraculously gets re-reviewed and comes up smelling of roses on a bed of $$$$$$ signs. The whole thing stinks of CNET's corporate relationship with Eidos when it comes to advertising paychecks.

Kane & Lynch has been advertised on Gamespot so inexorably (the site was even re-skinned in K&L images for a while) that for Jeff to actually "tell it like it is" in the review meant he had to stick his neck out and put his head on the block. Unfortunately, to complete the analogy, the axe fell and it cost Jeff his job.

I'm glad that Jeff valued his personal integrity and respected us, the readers,enough not to just feed us some crap about K&L being awesome in order to keep the publishers happy. It seems Gamespot has been in gradual decline all year and it is currently joining the ranks of IGN in the untrustworthyness stakes.

Greg Kasavin, a voice of objective reason,left in jan 2007 and now Jeff gets sacked amid a hail of controversy for slamming a lazy game and not letting Eidos get away with selling us second rate crap. Who do we have left to stand up for gamers who actually give a damn about the quality of games? To the other reviewers, if you care- walk out- make this place a ghost town.

Although i'll keep this account to see what happens to Gamespot over the coming months (I predict further loss of integrity with reviewers running scared from the truth) I will be finding a new main site to read my gaming news and reviews from now on. Eurogamer looks like a possible alternative.

Next time you want to give an honest opinion when money is involved- remember what happened to ol' Jeff!