donvarriel quote from sarcasticgamer : "Gamers from around the world stormed the offices of Cnet’s Gamespot today, setting fires and destroying everything in sight. The small contigent of police on hand to maintain order were simply overrun by the sheer number of angry nerds.
“At first it was like one guy with a sign,” said Gerald Fulton, one of the officers dispatched to try and defuse the situation. “But within an hour there were thousands of them. They were chanting Gerstmann, Gerstmann, Gerstmann. Then in an instant, they began to stampede.”
Within minutes, smoke began to rise from the Gamespot offices, and the sound of breaking glass filled the streets. Looters were seen leaving the scene with hundreds of copies of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.
“We would have tried to stop them, but it’s not like they were taking anything valuable,” said Fulton. “We were most concerned about the fire spreading from the Gamespot offices to the adjacent landfill. There are rare birds that inhabit that area, and it would have been a real shame if any of their habitat were to be damaged.”
Riot squads armed with pepper spray and battons eventually subdued the protestors, making dozens of arrests. Several gamers were injured by the fire, although most injuries seemed to take on a peculiar pattern.
“Numerous individuals suffered hernias and back injuries as they were attempting to loot an area called the Review Vault,” said Fulton. “But when they tried to carry out all of that cash at once, they really strained themselves. The weird part was that the Gamespot staff that were in the offices at the time of the incident remained at their desks, and continued working, as if nothing were happening.”
Firefighters managed to contain the blaze, and within a few hours, Gamespot had set up a temporary headquarters in the restroom of a local pub.
When reached for comment, Gamespot’s CNET PR representative, Dottie Dumas, would only reiterate the company’s corporate policy.
“CNET does not discuss the total destruction of our entire website with the press.”