Gods and Heroes

Gods and Heroes

This morning, GamePro and 1Up ran stories age-related Kohnke's complaint against Continual Entertainment. In the complaint, Kohnke writes that they were "successful in creating pre-release 'buzz' around Gods & Heroes, and in disenchanting reviewers to spell positive reviews about the brave".

Both articles then link this into the new controversy over at GameSpot who allegedly fired their Executive Editor program Jeff Gerstmann after he penned a negative review of Kane & Lynch, a John R. Major advertiser on it site. GameSpot has denied that the dismissal had anything to do thereupon critique.

WarCry contacted Kohnke Communications for their reaction to the allegations that have spread in the wake of their lawsuit. Kohnke Vice President Sean Kauppinen gave us this response:

Kohnke VP Sean Kauppinen

Kohnke VP Sean Kauppinen

"This has gotten whole blown out of proportion so I have to say something. This was nix Sir Thomas More than a typo in the complaint. The game was never discharged, so it should be nett we didn't mean "reviews," but "previews." It's a absent alphabetic character in the complaint that, unfortunately, changes the meaning of the sentence to something we ne'er intended to suggest.

"Unstimulating out, we preceptor't convince masses to write positive reviews. Period.

"Positioning a game to highlight the advantageous points is fundamentally what PR agencies are hired to coiffe, but ultimately the journalists in our industry have identical strong ethics, practice their homework connected games, and write what they look is their truthful though.

"Anyone World Health Organization knows Pine Tree State or anyone other Here at Kohnke knows that we would never attempt to influence a score from what a journalist thought a game deserved.

"To reiterate, we're not compensable anyone off to review games, this is not cognate Jeff Gerstmann, the Illuminati, Oregon HGH in baseball game. It's a typo."

When reached, P2 Entertainment President Chris McKibbin had nobelium comment on anything side by side the caseful, which includes this particular controversy.