Ironic Gamer

November 30th, 2007

Smith Leaves Midway

Harvey Smith has left the building, folks.
OK.
So maybe not the building…how about just Midway Austin.
GameTap is reporting that Smith left “by mutual agreement between Harvey and the studio”.
First we had Gerstmann getting canned and now Smith is gone.
Who’s next, kiddies?
You know what they say, right?
They always come in threes.
Who’s next?
Tags: changing-of-the-guard, gametap, Harvey-Smith, Jeff-Gerstmann, midway-austin

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November 30th, 2007

Jeff Gerstmann Canned!

Oh the rumor mills, they are abuzz!
The gist of the rumor is that Jeff Gerstmann, now former reviews editor for GameSpot, was fired because of his negative review of Kane and Lynch.
More specifically, he was fired because Eidos, publisher of Kane and Lynch and major GameSpot advertiser, was pissed off by Gerstmann’s review and threatened […]

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