We'll eventually know the real reason why he's leaving.  Just give the story some time, and the truth will come to us all.

The downfall of IGN (as far as I'm aware of) started when Matt Cassamassina left.  Now IGN is but a shadow from its own past.

Sorry to see him go.   I used to really like Matt/Bozon and to a lesser extent Craig.  Now the whole cast is gone.

Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't hits to the Nintendo sections of IGN been steadily dropping for some time now?  It's a gamer site and not been able to extend itself to appeal to Wii's growing audience (although Green Pixels was a good attempt) so I can only assume it's slowly become the butt of the company and Matt and Co. influence probably steadily declined into irrelavency.   Ironic considering Nintendo dominated both handhelds and home consoles, but IGN is out of touch with the mass market and now seems bent on going further away, being more elitest.    Meanwhile Wii owners  no doubt get their reviews off Amazon.com - which are more meaningful to them, than IGN's reviews.

So what happens if Kinect and Move are successful and broaden the audience further IGN? 

Yeah the whole limited hardware thing gets rather old quickly I agree, Craig fell into that issue a few times, but I chalk it up to transitioning from handhelds back to console reviews.  Matt and Mark would count off on Wii games for things they've seen other developers do with the system so they know its capable, Craig rated NSMB Wii lower cause online co-op is standard, and everyone went what the hell are you talking about?  I don't think he'll do that again with Donkey Kong Country Returns.

So I agree with your rant completely, though I come from the idea that graphics only matter when they radically change the game play for the better, transition into 3D is a example of that, but when you see games like Call of Duty done on Wii and its the exact same game, you know all graphics are doing is making it look nicer, it's not making your games play better, though I feel most people are blinded by the shiny objects to be honest.

Why has third party games become more polished than they ever were in the past?  Well they have to take 3 years to develop a game, with that much time they will go over the gameplay to make sure they'll get a return on their hefty investment, simple as that, could they do that on their Wii games they develop?  Of course but they're given a year and a small budget for those games and so they turn out badly, which stems a lot of preconceived notions about the little white box, it has no games, third parties don't support it, the games it has sucks, when really any developer could have polish similar to Nintendos polish given the time and budget with a team that wants to do it, IE Black Ops, No More Heroes, and Epic Mickey.

And I'm done with my rant  

IGN was the first gaming site i visited frecuently, Bozon and Craig where always interesting to read.

They'll probably ignore those two in favor of the "hardcore" games.  One thing we should note is that, while it seems we all agree that the quality at IGN has been in a steady decline, their traffic has actually been increasing over the years.  I suspect much of that has to do with their pandering to teenage boys, so why would they change?

Strange, I've heard otherwise. I could've sworn there was a topic on this forum that talked about IGN's viewership being a fraction of what it was even a few years ago.

ok, I am going on a wild guess here, but I´m starting to feel that he will give dkcr a 10 or at the very least a 9.5. I`m calling it

sooooo IGN will become Gamespot?

Alexa had them going down on viewership overall, but that seems to be talking about the 18-34 male demographic, they tried to launch a separate site catered to women and other gamers but it didn't seem to pan out.  So it might just be viewership for the that target demographic is up but overall is down.