33 Facts About Giant Bomb

Giant Bomb is an American video game website and wiki that includes personality-driven gaming videos, commentary, news, and reviews, created by former GameSpot editors Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis.

Giant Bomb's intent was to create "a fun video game website" that would not heavily cover the business side of the game industry.

Giant Bomb was unveiled on March 6,2008, as a blog; the full site launched on July 21,2008.

The Giant Bomb offices were originally in Sausalito, California, before moving to San Francisco in 2010, with a second office established in New York City in 2014.

Content on Giant Bomb comes from the site's staff as well as its community, which contributes to the site's video game wiki database that is open to editing by all registered users.

The Giant Bomb staff covers video game news and new releases in the form of video, written articles, and podcasts.

Giant Bomb started as a WordPress blog, which opened on March 5,2008.

Gerstmann explained that behind the scenes Giant Bomb had been looking for new ownership in order to facilitate the website's growth and that talks between themselves and CBS Interactive had started as far back as December 2011.

Giant Bomb announced two opening vacancies in 2014 for senior editor and video producer positions.

In May 2015, Austin Walker joined the editorial team at Giant Bomb, working out of the New York offices alongside Caravella and Navarro.

On May 1,2017, Giant Bomb announced that Abby Russell and former intern Ben Pack would be joining the Giant Bomb East and West offices respectively, with additional hires planned for later in the year.

Jeff Gerstmann later confirmed that Giant Bomb was among the sites included in the sale.

In October 2021, Giant Bomb announced that YouTube video producer Jess O'Brien, who had been assisting Giant Bomb in a contractor role, would be joining the site as a full-time employee.

On June 6,2022, Giant Bomb announced Jeff Gerstmann's departure from the website.

Gerstmann elaborated in the podcast's first episode later that day that the decision to leave Giant Bomb was a result of feeling overly stressed and creatively stifled by the increasing bureaucracy and time spent on business and management while working under a corporation, coupled with a desire to spend more time focusing on the actual production of content and the discussion of games and the industry.

Kotaku reported events as they happened on the Giant Bomb stream, including a player versus player event between the Star Wars factions the Galactic Empire and The Rebels, as well as an appearance from the Force Ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi as depicted in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

In covering Quick Looks, Dave LeClair of MakeUseOf focused on the format only on the entertainment merit of the Giant Bomb staff playing a given game, citing Quick Looks of Euro Truck Simulator 2, Wipeout: The Game, and the Trains Vs Zombies downloadable content of RailWorks 3 as games LeClair had no interest in playing but recommended as fun viewing in a Quick Look.

In September 2014 it was announced that Giant Bomb had entered into a partnership with Midroll, a podcast advertisement company.

In June 2015, Giant Bomb premiered a second weekly podcast, the Giant Beastcast.

On June 19,2013, Giant Bomb broke the story that Microsoft would reverse these policies and not feature them in the console.

Video games on Giant Bomb are rated on a scale of one to five stars, with no half-stars.

Metacritic lists Giant Bomb as having over 830 reviews in its records, with more than 450 of them positive, more than 250 being mixed and over 100 of them being negative.

Additional comical awards created by Giant Bomb has included the Best Use of Nolan North, otherwise known as The Northies, an award North himself acknowledged.

Users on Giant Bomb have the ability to create blogs, keep track of their game collections, and add information to game entries.

Giant Bomb allows users to contribute to collaborative wiki-based game guides.

Giant Bomb was formerly a journalist of the gaming website GameSpot and the co-founder and editor of the gaming website Giant Bomb.

Giant Bomb's death was revealed five days later on the Giant Bomb website.

Giant Bomb had an unconventional type of kindness that expressed itself more strongly the longer one knew him, and despite his teasing nature, he always managed to make his close friends feel loved when his attention turned towards you.

Giant Bomb was in opposition against SOPA and PIPA and ran an impromptu comedy show that day.

In October 2014 Giant Bomb released a video in which Gerstmann and Ryckert held a video game competition to see who could get the furthest in the video game Super Mario Bros.

Giant Bomb participates in the annual charity event Extra Life, in which fundraisers stream 24-hour video game marathons while viewers donate for sick children.

Giant Bomb is credited with being an innovator within video game journalism, avoiding many of its downfalls and continuing growth where other companies in the medium have had to downsize or close down completely.

We see sites like GameSpot doing that a lot, they're really chasing after the dream of what Giant Bomb did years ago and it's the reason why Giant Bomb is extremely relevant at this point because they saw that coming.