POP Ep.58: Shot Heard 'Round the Internet (Voicemail: 713-893-8069)

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 498 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2007

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk a little bit about the implications of Gamespot supposedly firing Jeff Gerstmann over his review of Kane & Lynch. Also: we talk about some of the games we've been spending time with in the last week. Rock Band, Avatar: The Burning Earth, Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe, Super Mario Galaxy, Shrek n' Roll, MLB Power Pros, Impossible Mission, Halo 3, Front Mission DS and Victorious Boxers Revolution.

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This week's links:
Gamespot: Kane & Lynch review
YouTube: Kane & Lynch video review
Valleywag: Gamespot editor (?) on fired reviewer
GameSetWatch: Numerals, Game Reviews, and the Game Media
Joystiq: GameSpot issues short comment on Gerstmann firing

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 58 of the Player One podcast for December 3rd, 2007.
0:20.3	I'm your host, Greg Stewart. With me as always is my co-host. A man who doesn't look a thing like Jesus but talks like a gentleman, Chris Johnston. Yo, yo, yo. Really? Did you like that one? 508. Look at you in your street. I know. Yeah. Joining us from the West Coast is the original inspiration for Harry Potter back when Harry Potter was going to be a short middle-aged super nerd, Phil Theobald.
0:42.1	Hello.
0:46.0	And Dan's getting Steve Jobs coffee or something today, so he won't be joining us again.
0:52.7	At least I had a good excuse.
0:56.6	The salty fog from the east coast of Canada is eating through our power lines.
1:00.6	Canada shut down for an hour or two.
1:04.0	That's right.
1:04.5	Yeah.
1:05.5	We got to turn Canada off.
1:06.8	That was perfect timing though when you came back because we were just about to record the end of the show. Glad I missed everything. And you hop back online. That is great. Yeah. That is awesome. All right. Let's move right into what you've been playing. CJ, you get to go first this week. All right. Well, I actually haven't been playing too much because this was my last week of work at New Type USA. So I'm done with that. Can you say where your new job is yet? New job. Yeah, I guess I can say where I'm working now. Or I haven't started yet, but we'll soon be working. GameSpot, right? Nintendo Atlanta. I'm replacing Jeff Gersman at GameSpot. Oh.
1:45.9	Too soon.
1:46.8	No.
1:47.1	No. That was too soon.
1:48.4	I am moving to Atlanta to become the games producer for Adult Swim, which is, of course, the late-night cartoon block on Cartoon Network.
1:59.0	And I will be working on all the various flash games
2:03.1	they have on AdultSwim.com
2:05.8	so head over there,
2:07.5	play some of the games and
2:08.7	make CJ some money.
2:10.8	Make me some money.
2:13.7	So CJ went
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