• Giant bomb bought by CBS. Moving back to the gamespot building
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[url]http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/gb-and-cv-are-sold-to-cbs-going-back-to-the-gamespot-building/539510/[/url] Announced on a stream they did some hours ago Well didn't quote the post [quote]Just announced in the livestream, Giant Bomb and Comic Vine have been sold to CBS Interactive, and are moving back to the Gamespot building. For the past couple years, companies have expressed interest in the Whiskey suite of sites, be it investment or straight up being bought out. Jeff, for the entirety of 2012, has been in the middle of business dealings, how they are going to fit in the Gamespot swing of things. Jeff has said "Giant Bomb in its current form will continue to exist." When asked by the Gamespot staff, what do you guys need, the answer (and the correct answer imo) was "we need a place to put a couch and hang a deerhead." Screened and Tested are not part of this buyout. They are going elsewhere. Paperwork was officially signed on Wednesday, March 14th. At 4pm west coast time march 15, jeff and co are going to the gamespot buildings (the gamespot crew just found out as soon as us users found out, on the stream) and one of the topics they are going to talk about is full disclosure on what explicitly happened in 2007. If anything, they are going to have to be "more" Giant Bomb than they were before. Somebody wouldn't buy them if they were to go and change who they are. Ryan Davis - "suffice to say we're going to keep having really bad ideas and keep on executing on those." "trust that those decisions are coming from us" During GDC, the entire office was being packed up, hence the lack of videos this week. Part of them going back there is "we will be in charge of editorial" Brad, Jeff, Ryan, Drew, Patrick, Alexis, Drew, Jeff, Vinny, Alex, .... the core of whiskey media, along with comic vine are making the move over to CBS as well. Joey is not moving over. "there are no immediate plans to being people to the site (staff)" "Fuck yeah" answer to people wanting to know if they can keep swearing. Actually, it was one of the first things discussed in the initial meetings. "We want to treat you guys like adults." Will you guys have an exposed brick wall? "they're gonna do some things to the 3rd floor of that building (gamespot level)" What does this mean for gamebomb.ru? "gamebomb.ru we're sorry to say is not coming with us on this journey" "fate of nothing. the thing is a workhorse." when asked about the fate of the podcast. "I'm also not going to commit to having video on our podcast" "I am proud to announce that I have found a copy of Binary Domain" - Jeff "Do not send mail to the old office. We can not get it there anymore." - Jeff Are you going to change the way ads are done on the site? "meebo bar is now gone. we are going to be cutting that amazing piece of technology." "we'll be able to hopefully have smarter ads." "members continue to be no ads. that will not change at all." Reviews are still going to happen on Giant Bomb, even taking into account the plethora of reviews Gamespot puts out. "What we will be offering in terms of reviews will be different in terms of what Gamespot is doing" - jeff "Patrick is still going to be out there chasing down news stories" "we're not going to cut off aspects of giant bomb just because somebody else does them." - jeff "we want to hustle the gamespot staff at warlords" - the real reason they're doing this.[/quote]
Mainstream game journalism is probably the best career. I mean, the hardest part of your job is coming up with adjectives.
I find it interesting how you didn't capitalize "bomb" in the title.
I guess Giant Bomb's independence went out with a bang.
Lmao wow Giantbomb is formed by ex-top-teir gamestop employees and personalities after the massive scandal that the Kane & Lynch review revealed, that causing one of their best people to get fired. Then everyone with a name at gamestop left and formed Giant Bomb among other things. Now they are going back? What?
When I saw the title I thought a giant literal bomb was purchased by CBS. :v
[QUOTE=KorJax;35159226]Giantbomb is formed by ex-top-teir gamestop employees[/QUOTE] Gamespot
[QUOTE=lavacano;35159217]I find it interesting how you didn't capitalize "bomb" in the title.[/QUOTE] Sensationalist headlines man :v:. I slipped up, didn't do it on purpose
[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;35159321]Sensationalist headlines man :v:. I slipped up, didn't do it on purpose[/QUOTE] I figured it was an accident, just poking fun. :v:
wow i love how they've been paraded around as what is right with game journalism, then this happens
[QUOTE=lavacano;35159217]I find it interesting how you didn't capitalize "bomb" in the title.[/QUOTE] I like the idea of CBS actually buying a giant bomb [editline]16th March 2012[/editline] and moving it to the gamespot office
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So how long till jeff gets fired again.
[QUOTE=KorJax;35159226]Lmao wow Giantbomb is formed by ex-top-teir gamestop employees and personalities after the massive scandal that the Kane & Lynch review revealed, that causing one of their best people to get fired. Then everyone with a name at gamestop left and formed Giant Bomb among other things. Now they are going back? What?[/QUOTE] My guess is they had a money truck parked outside their house, and some naked ladies climbed out and started handing out gold bullion.
One of the few semi-good reviewers out there, now gone. Damn.
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;35161954]One of the few semi-good reviewers out there, now gone. Damn.[/QUOTE] Yes, they clearly shut it down
[QUOTE=The freeman;35162617]Yes, they clearly shut it down[/QUOTE] I wasn't talking about it being shut down; it's now going to (most likely) give off bad reviews (like what GameStop did). [editline]16th March 2012[/editline] But we'll have to wait and see.
I glanced at GiantBomb earlier and saw one of their writers crying about how they missed Miranda because she died in their ME2 playthrough, needless to say I couldn't care less.
[QUOTE=Crimor;35161341]So how long till jeff gets fired again.[/QUOTE] Until Kane and Lynch 3 releases. (Which I want extremely badly.) :(
No, this can't be. [editline]16th March 2012[/editline] I found out about it 6 hours ago and I just shaked my head in disappointment.
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;35162720]I wasn't talking about it being shut down; it's now going to (most likely) give off bad reviews (like what GameStop did). [editline]16th March 2012[/editline] But we'll have to wait and see.[/QUOTE] except in they're contract with CBS Giant bomb made it clear that they have creative control over the whole cast/ reviewing portion. Hell last nights Stream was Jeff and the new CBS VP's talking about the whole why he got fired incident since CBS is now under new management. Also look at what Tested, they're techie type part of the company posted lastnight right after the podcast. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WLG8_dfX9M[/media] Fundin' yo. [b]Edit:[/b] Read the source posted below by mistersjeiks
[QUOTE=Kumari24;35162967]Hell last nights Stream was Jeff and the new CBS VP's talking about the whole why he got fired incident since CBS is now under new management. [/QUOTE] [url=http://tbreak.com/megamers/55379/news/jeff-gerstmann-was-indeed-fired-from-gamespot-because-of-a-poor-score/]Here[/url]'s an article about that. He even mentions how they were forced to give Ratchet & Clank a ''near perfect score''
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