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Sunday Comics: Dead Island You might have read rumours swirling around the internet today that suggest the Wii U will be out on November 18. Multiple gaming websites, such as GameSpot and Eurogamer, have reported on the rumour, which originated at the website Wii U Daily. Wii U Daily says it obtained an email from a Japanese retailer that confirms the release date.
Back in 2007, GameSpot writer Jeff Gerstmann left the site under suspicious circumstances. It was heavily rumoured at the time that his departure was the result of pressure from a games publisher over a negative review.
Game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann, who parted ways with GameSpot five years ago after publisher Eidos took issue with his review of Kane & Lynch, has returned to his old stomping grounds. GameSpot parent company CBS purchased Gerstmann’s website, GiantBomb, today. GiantBomb will still exist as an autonomous publication. [Justin.TV]
The Oscars have them. March Madness has them. But, numerous outlets start announcing their year-end picks, I’m wondering if anyone does Game of the Year betting pools?
Over at the CBS/Gamespot offices they’ve been having a lot of fun with post-its, putting together this lovely window-spanning mural of classic 8-bit video game characters. The video above depicts them working through the night in what must have been a very enjoyable reason to forgo sleep.
Hispanic gamers are more likely to buy console video games, less influenced by price points in their choices, and consider themselves gaming novices, according to a survey by Univision, which will team with GameSpot to produce a Spanish-language games portal.
EA has launched the multiplayer open beta for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, and all you have to do is sign into your free GameSpot account and wait.
Generally, we would suspect that any unfavourable review of one’s video game creation would be quite the bum out. In the case of IO Interactive’s Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, however, team members say that GameSpot’s damning review of the Eidos published crime epic knocked the wind out of them and that being caught up in the “conspiracy theory” brouhaha that surrounded the review was “surreal”.
Jens Peter Kurup, Director of Kane & Lynch at IO, tells GamesRadar that “there was something in the tone of that review that was tough on people, and on me”.
Calling the GameSpot thrashing of Kane & Lynch — a nasty 6.0, when many reviews range from 7.0 to 10 — “a review that I would like to forget”, Kurup is surprisingly honest in his feelings about the judgement.
