Stephen Colvin is Cnet's new Executive Vice President. He took the job at the end of last October. As Vice President his duties are to maintain and grow Cnet's websites, including Gamespot. Colvin's last job was CEO of Dennis publishing, the company that publishes Maxim. What's interesting about that is the fact that Maxim regularly reviews games months before they're finished, and have given perfect five star reviews to games like Test Drive Unlimited, and King Kong.

All this was on gamespot's wiki page (along with the rumor of Alex Navarro leaving on the 24th) But that, and everything else that was written under the sub-heading 'Controversy' seems to have disappeared.

It kinda makes me wonder what would happen if ALL the reviewers quit and started their own website. The site would probably be extremely ugly, at least at first, and they might not get the same amount of screenshots, videos, and behind the scenes footage. But the trade off would be that the people you've come to know would have the freedom to do and say pretty much what ever they want. Of course they wouldn't be making any money, so that could be a problem. But if a ton of fans jumped ship and followed them to their new site I'd imagine they could find a way to turn that kind of daily trafic into $$$.

Maybe I'm way off base here. Maybe most of the people who come here just have the ULR memorised and don't know the names of the editors, and wouldn't care. So I dunno, where do you think people's loyalty would lie, with the company or with the people?