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Jason Ocampo leaves Gamespot for IGN

by Alexander Sliwinski on Feb 29th 2008 3:00PM

The post Gerstmann-gate metagame of "who's leaving Gamespot" continues with the announcement that former editor Jason Ocampo has landed a job as Editor-in-Chief of the PC team at IGN.

Although Ocampo's leaving supposedly had nothing to do with Gerstmann-gate, the loss of almost every "known" person at Gamespot in such a short time is ... awkward. On the plus side, now there's hardly anyone remaining at Gamespot who'd be worth noting if they left. Yay, the epic is almost over and we can march forward (Ocam-ocam-ocam-po).

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Tags: gamespot, gerstmann-gate, ign, jason-ocampo, jeff-gerstmann, ocampo

Reader Comments (30)

So has gamespot managed to replace any of these people, or are there a ton of positions open.

Because I don't mind being a yes man if my job is play videogames and write about how awesome they are, even if they're not.

Haha no kidding, I wonder if you can do it from home? It seems like they could just send you games to review and then you'd email them your review or something...I don't care how many games I have to lie about as long as I get paid to game!

"So has gamespot managed to replace any of these people, or are there a ton of positions open."

I don't think so, at least not to the level at which they were pre-Gerstmann-gate.

I really noticed a sharp drop in both update-frequency and content when all of this went down and it's still not "fixed". Regardless of moral issues, Gamespot just isn't worth going to anymore for reviews or really any other content.

Their On The Spot show and podcast were their best features, they were always a little "amaturish" but they had the right idea I think, that's all to hell as well now...

I can accept that...

But if someday, in some distant future, Ludwig, Justin or Chris leaves Joystiq for Kotaku... well, that day, the Internet will implode.

I'm pretty sure they'd have to explode before they moved to another site like that! =P

I hope Chris never leaves. He's definitely the best contributor here.

Fernando Rocker, honestly, you're the biggest suck up on the internet.

Grow some bawls.

I should hand in a resume to Gamespot. I may have terrible spelling and grammar, but I can learn if that means getting paid good money to play all the games I want and give mediocre games glowing reviews.

Gamespot won't be in trouble for a long time. First off they have the most active forums around. and second they are still to well known to just die. But given that I now really don't know anyone there it won't be long until people really do start leaving.

Their podcast a while back was kind of funny. "So, you haven't been on the podcast ever, and you haven't since last year." They seemed to be filling in the normal cast with obscure team members. Did most of the regular cast leave?

I hope he remembered to turn the lights off.

Too many patapon avatars. Everyone is starting to look alike; like some screwed up twilight zone episode.

One could say the same thing about Marios or characters wearing Mario's hat.

I'm just lazy

There needs to be more avatar events to diversify the mix.

Wow. That place must be like a ghost town. Can you imagine losing 2/3rds of your team within 3 months? It takes us months to find the right person for most of our positions.

Management must slowly be coming to understand why everyone made such a big deal over gerstmanns termination.

Is "Gerstmann-gate" a play on watergate? I've always wondered what it meant, but I could never find the article in which it was coined...

Yes it is.

Which is funny, because watergate happened before most of the posters here were born.

I blame Hillary.

At least Gertsmann and Ryan Davis started their own Podcast. The Hotspot is so hit or miss without them now. I still watch On The Spot, as it can still be somewhat entertaining, and I still read their reviews, just with a huge grain of salt. Say what you will, but even in the state they're in now, I still find them better than 1up or IGN.

sooo......no reason to visit GameSpot or IGN then. ok.

The phrase "All aboard the failboat" comes into mind.

Leaving Gamespot for Ign is like moving from a garbage disposal full of rats to a cartoon box with the rest of the hobos.

Okay I'm being unfair,some of the people working in IGN aren't that bad for example the PSP column still holds up..sorta.

Still they freaking gave Miami vice a 5 out of 5 and that's reason enough for me to hate them to death.

IGN? Why oh why?!

Well, there's still Brad and Tor, two excellent personalities.

Vinny's quite the trooper for keeping the hotspot entertaining, despite the exodus of talent.

Poor Brad, Vinnie and Thor. You may mean nothing to Joysiq but you've kept me entertained.

Nobody else worth noting?Y ou forgot Shoemaker and Thorson and Torres among other quality editors still there!

Its not over yet Brad Shoemaker announced on todays hotspot that he is leaving ...... Will the last person to live the Gamespot offices please remeber to switch off the lights.

Apologies for my awful spelling, etc. How the hell can I edit my posts.

Was supposed to read as follows:-

It's not over yet, Brad Shoemaker announced on todays hotspot that he is leaving ...... Will the last person to LEAVE the Gamespot offices please REMEMBER to switch off the lights.

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