Jaffe Slams Joystiq Over <cite>Calling All Cars</cite> Flap

There's no love lost between David Jaffe and Joystiq. Reporting the news today that Jaffe's Calling All Cars has been pushed back from its May 3 release date, the blog was none too happy:

Like a little girl struggling to keep her favorite doll out of the garage sale bin, David Jaffe is returning to the world of Calling All Cars to make some fixes and revise some of the criticisms the title received via reviews, even after announcing that the title has gone gold, according to a post he left on the NeoGAF forums.

Jaffe's response to an "unnamed" website, delivered via his blog, was swift and furious.

Fuck you, guys. Go fuck yourselves. What other developer makes a fucking change to a game when a review (IGN's in this case) has a good, valid point and is willing to open the fucking code up at the risk of more bugs to make the game better? Amazing.But hey, you guys are great, you guys rock. I hope Kotaku fucking puts your ass out of business, wanna be fucktards. And if you were actual journalists you would have read the motherfucking quote I posted on NEOGAF where I said because of the two bugs we needed to fix (not because I was afraid of the bargin bin) we had a window of opp. to fix the magnet problem.
Assholes...total fucking assholes.

Was the response aimed at Joystiq? It seems very likely. We likely won't hear any more, though, because Jaffe adds that he's going to "go dark" for a while and quit the blogging biz, saying that his blog posts "have upset some folks within the biz I care very much about and that I can not live with."

He's said that before. But it's David Jaffe, kids! Don't you cry, he'll be back again someday.