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Geoff Keighley Dorito Pope refers to an interview between LevelSave.com and video game journalist Geoff Keighley. The effusive amount of product placement for Mountain Dew and Doritos during the interview led to large amounts of criticism and made the interview to become a notorious example of the state of gaming journalism, and also went on to grant Keighley the nickname of “Dorito Pope”.
Origin
On October 18th, 2012, Canadian video game journalist Geoff Keighley[1] held and interview with video game website LevelSave.com[2] to talk about his experience with with Comic-Con, Halo 4, and Mtn Dew and Doritos XP. During the course of the interview, Keigley was surrounded by product placement for Mountain Dew, Doritos, and the Mtn Dew and Doritos XP event for Halo 4, a promotional event by Mountain Dew and Doritos which would give the buyer double experience on Bungie’s Halo 4 through codes placed on their products. As of May 17th, 2014, the video has nearly 50,000 views and over 1,200 downvotes against just 125 upvotes.
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On January 1st, 2013, Youtube channel AngryJoeShow listed the interview and other events surrounding gaming journalism that were sparked by the interview as his number 3 of his top 10 gaming controversies of 2012, only being beaten by The Mass Effect 3 ending and the Arma III espionage arrests.[3]