Let's look back at what Gamespot was last year. Do you remember? If you do, you might have realized the changes that Gamespot has gone through. The site has lost a ton of its huge contributors over the time, and yet they're holding up just fine, maybe better perhaps? Jeff, Alex, Jason, Ryan, and Brad are now gone, so what other personalities have stepped up to the plate? Vinny, Brian, Don, Kevin, Chris, and Tom. I do not believe that Gamespot is dieing, but getting more or less a needed face-lift.

One of the biggest changes was the unseen departure of Jeff Gerstmann. Most people that were users of Gamespot for a while, had been taken away by this incident. Luckily, Jeff didn't die, go to crime, or disappeared from the face of the earth. He's thriving with Ryan Davis at Giant Bomb (dot) com. The best part is, the quality of Gamespot was not gone after the loss, and we got another great site to look at with a couple of our long-time favorites.

A question that I asked myself during that unfortunate week was "What will happen to the HotSpot, On The Spot, and all the critical reviews that we've come to kind of agree with than hate?" For the most part, not very much. I actually find myself a lot more interested in watching On The Spot with Ryan MacDonald as host, because he has a spark to his personallity that is always hopeful when they are demoing games on the show. Kevin: he's not super crazy, but when funny things come out of his mouth, it's gold. Vinny: The lovable New Yorker? Tom: the smart and funny news guy (that nobody know about, hehe).

Gamespot has always been the place I go to when I want honest, non-fanboy published reviews. That always has been the case when it came to criticality in game journalism. Jeff was one of the most hard-to-please reviewers from the site and when he went away, people were claiming that Gamespot had "lost their credibility." This seemed logical for us at the time, but there were many other great writers that felt a little bit out of the picture. I don't see any real problems now with the reviews being produced in present time and that tells me it will have to take a lot more than losing a few of their frontmen to kill them.

Gamespot, in my opinion, needed this change. I really have no clue as to what anyone else thinks about this subject, but my knowledge of people would say that there could be some guy at work reading this saying "I agree."