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Another Gamespot Reviewer To Depart

Kotaku is reporting that yet another long time reviewer for the gaming web site Gamespot has decided to leave. Alex Navarro has turned in his notice and will leave the site on Jan. 24. This is the second reviewer for the site to announce his departure in less than a week; Frank Provo has also annouced his departure from Gamespot earlier this month. His reasons were because of his disagreement with management over the firing in late November of Gamespot executive editor Jeff Gerstmann. There's no word on the reasons behind Navarro's departure.

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This might be.

1Up.com's site manager Sam Kennedy has posted up a lengthy post on his blog site giving his opinions on last November's firing of GameSpot's executive editor Jeff Gerstmann and how that firing might affect both GameSpot as a web site and game journalism as a whole. The post is quite detailed and is definitely a good read. One thing that was interesting was a mention of what Gerstmann might be doing next:

As for Jeff, word on the street is that he's teaming with GameSpot founder Vince Broady (who recently left Yahoo) to build a new game site to "take on GameSpot." Now that would be interesting, wouldn't it?

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...and on. It won't stop.

Biz.Gamedaily reports that yet another long time staffer at the gaming web site Gamespot is leaving his post. Ryan Davis, who has worked for the site for eight years , has decided to leave his position. Davis worked as an associate editor on the site. Davis's departure is the third such major defection from Gamespot since the firing in late November of now former executive editor Jeff Gerstmann; Frank Provo and Alex Navarro, both long time staff members, left the site soon afterward. It's not yet officially known why Davis has decided to leave but in a blog post following Gerstmann's firing it's clear that Davis took Gerstmann's firing particularly hard.

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Gerstmann's Revenge consummates.

CNet's GameSpot Management Head To Depart

Kotaku is reporting that Josh Larson, the vice president of the games section of web news company CNet (the parent company of GameSpot), will depart the company on April 9 due to a restructuring of the company's management. Larson, who came on board about a year ago, was fingered by rumors as the person who made the decision to fire Gamespot executive editor Jeff Gerstmann last November, allegedly because of Gerstmann's poor review of Eidos's Kane and Lynch which Gamespot heavily advertised on its site (CNet has officially denied this was the reason). Since Gerstmann's firing, five other long time Gamespot team members have departed with some of them joining with Gerstmann to form a new game oriented web site. Larson was apparently the victim of CNet's earlier announcement last month that it would cut 120 people from its company which is about 4 percent of its total worldwide workforce.

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This pretty much marks 'case closed.'

Colvin, who joined CNet just a month ago, was formerly the CEO of Dennis Publishing, who handle Maxim, Blender and the former Stuff magazines.

I'm surprised CNet isn't featuring "nipple slip" viral videos at this point, and replacing their tech reviews with articles on how to talk a woman into sleeping with you even if you're a piece of crap who clearly isn't worthy of the privilege.