Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay

https://beehaw.org/post/7543478

Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay - Beehaw

More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.

Apparently Jeff Gerstmann received the review code quite a bit later than other publications. He said it’s quite a ridiculous story that perhaps he would talk about it someday (his tone sounds like this is a story in the far future)

Jeff is ex (old) Gamespot, ex Giantbomb, and the guy who got fired from Gamespot due to external pressure from Eidos after he gave Kane and Lynch a 6 out of 10.

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I’ve never even heard of Kane and Lunch so sounds like he was probably right.
i heard the first one was actually pretty good, but the second one had issues including the length of FOUR HOURS