Gamespot Editor Fired Over Kane & Lynch Review?

A new rumor has surfaced today of long-time GameSpot reviewer Jeff Gerstmann has been fired. Normally, that wouldn't be worthy of a news post, but the reason for him being fired makes it worthy.

It seems it was due to advertiser pressure for his review of Eidos Interactive's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.

Jeff reviewed Kane & Lynch: Dead Men with a not so nice score of 6.0, which is a fair in GameSpot's scale. The reason for Jeff's firing wasn't the score, but the "tone" of his review.

If the rumor is true, it could be a sad thing to see from a great site such as GameSpot. Bad publicity too.

[Via Kotaku]