Microsoft tells website to fire journalist

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Saiyar on 11 January 2008

Microsoft have asked Gamepartisan to fire one of their journalists

“They have been evasive, rude, bigoted and downright offensive to me on the phone and by email. This was punctuated by a conversation yesterday between a Microsoft rep and our editor-in-chief, Jonny DeViney, where Microsoft effectively asked DeViney to drop me from the editorial team to ‘remove any potential sources of contention’ between GP and Microsoft.”

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famousringo on 11 January 2008

Now that's PR!

"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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jlauro on 11 January 2008

Isn't the internet great!

Things would rarely get out like this without it...

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Avinash_Tyagi on 11 January 2008

Muckrakers unite

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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Nintendownsmii on 11 January 2008

The comedy in this is I immagine they wanted him fired so he wouldn't have a voice about his bad experience with live and MS customer service, but by they made it public anyway and much more worse.