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CBS Snags GameSpot in $1.8 Billion Dollar Acquisition

kotaku.com — Kotaku reports that CBS Corporation just announced an agreement to buy CNET for $1.8 billion dollars. Through the deal, all of CNET's network sites, including GameSpot, TV.com mp3.com, CNET news.com, UrbanBaby, CHOW, Search.com, BNET, MySimon and TechRepublic all become property of CBS.

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  • mrfreeziexp, on 05/15/2008, -2/+28I was wondering why they changed the rating for the CSI game to a 10.
  • mannayz, on 05/15/2008, -4/+1CBS brought us Big Brother 1-280 with your host, Julie Chen...
    no irony
  • abhinavkumar, on 05/15/2008, -4/+3I think my inner gamer died a little on the inside.
    • derfunkenstein, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2Why? Gamespot has lots pretty much all credibility due to Getsmann-gate.
  • ShawnCGeorge, on 05/15/2008, -2/+0Money hats!!!
  • dansmeek, on 05/15/2008, -3/+2well it's not like gamespot could lose any more credibility. there's only room to move up from where they're at.
  • Razer210, on 05/15/2008, -4/+1Well, that doesn't change much, EA's gonna buy everything anyway.
  • lukas88, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Does that mean David Caruso is going to start reviewing games? With his sun glasses on, of course. That is, until he says something hardcore right before they cut to a commercial, he has to take them off for that. He can also take them off when he is talking to the female audience (if nobody tells him that gamespot has no female audience).
  • arcooke, on 05/16/2008, -0/+6Well, so far they're doing a good job preserving last.fm .. if that's any indication of how it will go with CNET, I'm fine with it.
  • SmurfSlut, on 05/16/2008, -2/+0Wow are you serious
    I cant Download any more free software or the illuminati will implant more spyware onto my computer
  • NaziHatinChimp, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1A ***** company grabbed a ***** company. Great, now we just have more *****.
  • Freshjive787, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3take it, we dont want em anymore.
  • buffyangel108, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1Another indie site goes down the tube. Keep fighting it darkhorizons!
  • chkdg8, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1We can say goodbye to our precious little independent reviews. Gamespot, so long, farewell.
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