Paul Miller

don't DQ me 'cause of my name. i'm not the one who writes for this site

warnings on cigarette boxes are there because in the world of medical science, it's been determined that smoking is a direct cause of lung cancer and other serious health risks.

and they want to put labels on these games because occasionally someone who commits a violent act happened to also play a violent video game or two in their lives.

i wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of violent acts in our population hasn't gone up much from way before violent games entered the scene. fact is, almost everyone under 30 has grown up playing video games including violent ones. this philosophy is just absurd.

Do you honestly think that would have made things better? Please don't try to suggest so. IMO, changing the score would have been even worse. The only thing they SHOULD have done, is leave the review alone and not take down the video one... whether they are guilty of this crime or not.

me want

Just want to say thanks to Joystiq for continuing to do these awesome daily updates on this story. I have great interest in this story, and it's nice to be able to come to one place and keep up w/ all the happenings. Keep up the good work! Hopefully you'll keep posting updates like this until the whole thing blows over.

I don't blame Eidos as much as I do Gamespot. Sure, Eidos is being a dick about this, but you can hardly blame them for not wanting a site to diss their game when they are paying them lots of money to advertise for that same game...

But clearly, the only thing Eidos could have done is pull their ads from GS, and GS at that point needs to protect their integrity by saying, "sorry, we can't do that, we'll just find another sponsor".

I don't necessarily like Jeff's reviews either, but that's really not the point.

The point is, they fired a dude because he was honest about a shitty game that was contributing to the size of their wallets. It completely destroys any chance of me ever respecting a review from Gamespot again. I'll be canceling my Total Access subscription if this turns out to be true.

my pinky finger

i want this. a lot.

w/e the hard drive space was for a Commodore 64.