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You can watch it on Gamesradar, if you must. The movies from an upcoming piece of content called “Dope Bag”. It’s going to be made available on Thursday.

The Advertising Standards Agency has ordered Eidos to not print or broadcast a Kane & Lynch campaign again after it received 26 complaints, according to this MCV piece.

One ad – showing a gagged woman, crying and having her head held back by one of the pair – was printed over a double-page spread in Edge, with a second version appearing in Total Film.

The ASA said: “The portrayal of violence it contained, with particular regard to the female hostage, was graphic and too shocking to be seen in an untargeted medium.”

On poster also got the campaign into hot water, carrying an OXM quote saying, “Grittier and nastier in tone than anything you’ve seen before, the violence here is visceral, brutal and very, very real.”

The ASA said this version was “likely to be seen as condoning and glorifying real violence”, and was also irresponsible and “likely to cause serious or widespread offence.”

We said, “Whoops.”

According to this, some unaccounted for Achievements in Kane & Lynch have been discovered, prompting some to believe there’s some DLC on the way for the Eidos action game. Found on Xbox.com, apparently, under the “Secret” achievements status, there are one 100GS, two 50GS and two 25GS Achievements. We could make a “joke” about being awarded the big one for getting a high profile journalist made “attachment-free”. But we won’t.

According to this, Eidos’s contentious crime action game Kane & Lynch has sold more than 1.4 million units. The figure emerged as part of SCi’s lay-off statement last week.

Despite the game’s solid performance, the company said more could have been acheived.

“We believe it could have sold more had we optimised the opportunity,” it said at the time.

EGM editor Dan Hsu (who recently spoke out about untoward treatment towards his magazine from Ubisoft, “Sony’s sport department” and Midway) has reached the common sense conclusion that there was more to the Jeff Gerstmann “sacking” from Gamespot than meets the eye.

“I’d be really surprised if what everyone thinks happened really happened,” he said, speaking in a GameTrailers Bonus Round interview (see below). “Because Eidos complaining happens all the time. That’s pretty normal… If they threaten to pull advertising, then it’s Gamespot’s duty for management to protect its employees and defend its editorial integrity. Jeff Gerstmann’s been there for so long, I find it really hard to believe that even if there’s new management… that it’s like, ‘You’re gone,’ and not think about all the ramifications of how’s it going to affect morale, how’s it going to affect how we look to our readers and our editorial integrity; there’s a lot of consequences from that. So I kind of feel there must be more to the story that we’re not hearing.”

Gerstmann left Gamespot last November, apparently due to friction over a 6/10 score for Eidos’s Kane & Lynch and the publisher’s subsequent threat to pull a large advertising campaign.

“The buzz seems to imply that he got fired for a negative review, but I don’t know,” said Hsu. “Maybe he was sleeping with the boss’s wife, or something… I think very few people know the full story.”