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Paws for concern, 'Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days' trademark discovered

by Andrew Yoon on Jul 14th 2009 9:15AM

Discovering a trademark for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days has made us preemptively fire Ludwig Kietzmann, before his upcoming review of the game could be completed. In the future, Square Enix Europe will pull all advertising from our site due to these choice quotes:

"This game will send you to the doghouse."
"You will roll over when playing the game."
"You'll beg for it to stop."
"I played the game for a bit, but then I had to put it down."
"Here's our score, K? 9/100."
"Kane & Lynch is a bitch."

We apologize to everyone, our readers and Square Enix Europe, for this review.

[Thanks, Spencer!]

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Tags: eidos, kane-and-lynch, kane-and-lynch-2, Microsoft, trademark, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (36)

I'd like mustard on that hot dog. What? I'm hungry.

I heard Gamespot already gave this game a 10.

They will re hire Jeff, then fire him again.

woof.

Woot. I actually really enjoyed Kane and Lynch, it only let me down by having no online co-op. Apart from that, strangely, I found it a very entertaining rental. Definetely glad to see a sequel, just hope they can improve it to make something good into something great.

Yeah, it was really a pretty fun g-

Sorry, i almost said it with a straight face.

Concurred, i currently just played it about a month ago and have to say that i thought it was well done for all the crap talked about it, yes it had its flaws, but i have played plenty games with flaws, also felt the story needed to be closed better, but im hoping the sequel answers my questions.

trying the demo, my mate lasted 12 seconds before he had to turn that crap off.. I suffered through to the end.. I can't believe they even considered making a second game.. I guess when they pitched it, the higher up's laughed in their faces

i don't know if that apology will cover it

Cannot wait to play this. I loved the first one.

I did as well.

Oh man, look at it. It's pissing on EVERYTHING.....

You'd be barking mad to play this.....

The real shame about this is a number of hard-working programmers and designers are going to attempt to build a product that has such a negative stigma within the video game press.

Just look at how defensive this initial article is. Is anyone going to give it a fair shake?

I know, throw them a bone.

Yeah, it's a doggone shame.

just let sleeping dogs lie

This is a weird post - did you actually fire someone for writing a negative review of a shit game? Or am I missing a joke or something more serious?

A while back Jeff Gersmann got fired from Gamespot, supposedly for his negative review of the 1st Kane and Lynch. He went on to form the awesome Giant Bomb website.

Oops typo, meant to write "Gerstmann".

ahh I see, cheers for the heads up :)
Think my brain is failing today

Gerstmann is a great video game critic. People would constantly lash out at him for actually having an opinion. Remember all the shit he got for his 8.8 review of Twilight Princess? Man the internet is filled with whiny babies.

Getting fired from Gamespot was the best thing that could happen to him. It let the video game community see that he was a game journalist that kept it real, and we got the Giant Bomb (which kicks the crap out of Gamespot).

ahh, i knew of the gamespot review debacle and i go to giant bomb every once in a while, but i didn't know they were related. hmm...

i hope the graphics dont drag its ass

I'll buy it if it features a cameo from Scruff McGruff.

You know what, not only was the game awesome its one of the few that gave 250 more achievement points and 3 new maps FOR FREE!

Show some respect to people who are not money hungry jerks *looks at cliffyb*

I might just give this dog a bone.

"Putting peanut butter on your genitals for Fido to lick off would be time better spent than playing Kayne & Lynch 2."

It's a good thing I don't write game reviews.

give them a chance first...
Killzone 2 was a nice improvment...
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was another great improvement..

I don't have high hopes for this game, but you never know.

It is too bad that KZ 2's controls sucked a soggy fat one. I lost all interest in that game after the demo. Wondering if the controls patch could be/is added to the demo so I could try it out. Of what I played, I actually liked the single player of the first KZ(multi-player sucked ass though). Kane and Lynch sucks hardcore.

wtf are you talking about. neither of those 2 games has any relation to the publisher or dev of kane & lynch, or each other for that matter...

Kane and Lynch: Dog Days - doing reviewers doggie style

I really like the direction the first one took, but the gameplay itself was pretty weak. Hopefully they can improve on that and keep the dark, twisted storyline.

You guys fire Ludwig, but you won't fire Justin?

This game needs major improvement and co-op period. If not, forget it.

If there was a way to punish the publisher and not the developer, i'd say the entire gaming press should take a giant shit on this game to avenge jeff gerstmann...

If they supposedly didn't fire him over it, then why did half the fucking gamespot staff quit after that bullshit. i removed gamespot from my myyahoo page feed when that happened.

jeff's review was right in line with the general consensus.

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