There are ways to handle bad video game public relations. This is not one of them.

There was a big story doing the rounds yesterday about a gaming editor being forced out of his job in Australia thanks to apparent pressure from the PR department of Rockstar. As the story goes, Toby McCasker ex-entertainment editor for Zoo magazine was fired after posting up an email apparently received from Rockstar up on his Facebook page. The email …

You’d expect that with unceremonious, but scandalous ousting of Jason West and Vince Zampella, staff at Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward would be leaving en masse. They’re not though. The reasons for this – while hardly surprising, considering this is Activision – are still shocking. Hit the jump to read more. Last Updated: March 12, 2010

A title that we haven’t given any love to since it was shown at E3 has been R.U.S.E,  honestly I didn’t even see the PR at E3 and it was only after I was having a conversation yesterday that it came up. So I went over and took at look at the official PR video from E3 where 2 blatant …

Shacknews is reporting that in an effort to keep Tomb  Raider Underworld High on the rankings on Metacritic, Eidos has a PR firm tasked with trying to convince publications and websites to hold off on their reviews if the scores are below a certain score. A story on 1up refers to the story first being broken when GameSpot U.K. journalist …