As the P-A strip goes, he was given his marching orders because didn't shill for Eidos' lowly-anticipated Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, giving it a lower than expected score of 6.0 (Which is pretty much what it has been averaging across the net) Edios threatened to pull all advertising from GS & CNET affiliates, unless blood was shed.
Subsequently, long time GS staffer, Tim Tracy has stepped down in protest. It's almost unfathomable to comprehend how these back door dealings are seemingly still so rampant in the gaming press to this day, whatever credibility Gamespot once had, is now clearly down the shitter, and well, Eidos can go choke on some old hairy British balls.
Total bollox.