It’s always great to see something good happen to someone I genuinely admire, yet it’s equally tough to let someone go. This is the case with Gamespot Editor-in-Chief Greg Kasavin, someone with whom I’ve grown old during what has been the most influential and prolific ten years the gaming industry has ever seen. Greg has covered the events of the past decade with such professionalism and expert objectiveness, it’s been a pleasure to have been on the receiving end of his many reviews and features.

It’s also why it’s hard to see him walk away from the site he helped mature into what it is today. I’m sure it is still in capable hands, with the venerable Jeff Gerstmann et al, but it just doesn’t feel right to think of a Gamespot without Greg’s direction.

But where Greg is Gamespot’s loss, it is someone else’s gain. In this case, it is an unnamed developer. Now Greg can spread his influence in making a game that not only a video game journalist would love, but also one for all of us gamers.

And with that, I say thanks and good luck.