GameSpot Hit With Layoffs, Insufficient Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Coverage Thought To Blame

CBS interactive-owned GameSpot has been hit with massive layoffs in what is being described as an “internal shifting of resources.” While GameSpot insiders themelves claim the layoffs are mostly a result of readers overusing AdBlock and preventing the free-to-use website from generating a large majority of it’s revenue, industry analysts are blaming the site's gross lack of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood coverage for the shift.

The game itself does not do really anything different or compelling over other pointless pay-to-win mobile games, but the simple fact that it has Kardashian’s name attached to it is enough to make it mandatory for video game blogs to cover, sources say.

“They only managed to post one boring article about the game,” blogger and self-proclaimed market analyst Steve Wilson told his 74 twitter followers Monday, “Even Polygon was able to claim the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood was progressive because it allowed same sex marriages. Would it have been so hard for GameSpot to make up some bullshit reason to cover the shallow pointless game like Polygon did? No. That’s why they ended up having to layoff so many folks.”

Wilson estimates that it only would have taken two more vapid articles covering the poorly developed pay-to-win game to allow several writers to keep her jobs at GameSpot. As he told us when we called to ask him about the layoffs, “While GameStop was busy covering useless shit like details about Hyrule Warriors and Bioshock Infinite going to iOS, readers were flocking over to Kotaku to read an excellent article comparing a character in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood to Gary Oak. See, GameSpot? That’s how you do quality fucking journalism you lazy two-bit hacks.”

Several analysts have warned readers to keep an eye on Joystiq next, as they neglected to have even a single article covering the easily clickbaited topic. “They’re just asking for trouble with that. Do you want to live in a world where we don’t get a review of a mobile game with Kanye West tweets? Because I don’t. If you don’t cover this game you’re not a game journalist and you're probably sexist, simple as that.”