Judging by a thread in their forums, it seems that Gamespy.com's special blend of humor and style is all but officially extinct.

It all started when the site merged with IGN. It was promised that the two would remain separate entities in every way, with a few crossovers adn links to each other at times. But shortly after the merger Gamespy made a few changes to their front site, adding more links to media (images and movies), strategy guides, and other useless stuff that serious gamers don't really look at much. Then humor columns like the daily victim and the Gamespy Grudge, editorials like the Pile Ons and editor columns, and community stuff like the forum watch just stopped being updated (or were done so only very periodically). Now most of the old editors have left, and those remaining must spend their time writing generic articles and features, which apparently have brought in more readers. Other than the still free and still smart forums, the site feels sterile.

I can't really be angry with the GS staff; you have to keep things running, and if the mainstream gamer wants corn, then that's what will be served. But it is still sad to see GS in such a vanilla state; it used to be the one gaming website that felt like a community, a place where serious gamers could find humor they could understand and appreciate, and insight and opinions from editors that played games as much as we did. I can only pin the blame on the IGN merger forcing changes, and hope that the supposed redesign of the entire Gamespy site in the future doesn't turn it into an IGN clone (I shudder to think what two would be like).