1. Jeff Gerstmann was born on August 1,1975 and is an American video game journalist.
14 Facts About Jeff Gerstmann
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Former editorial director of the gaming website GameSpot and the co-founder of the gaming website Giant Bomb, Gerstmann began working at GameSpot in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot when GameSpot split PC and console games into separate areas.
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Jeff Gerstmann began work in video game journalism in the early 1990s, having been involved with the game industry since age 17 doing freelance work as well as working for a print magazine for under a year.
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Jeff Gerstmann was hired as an intern for GameSpot in 1996, eventually becoming editorial director.
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Jeff Gerstmann appeared in a segment on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer and Sega product analyst Dennis Lee in September 1999 to talk about the release of the Sega Dreamcast, playing NFL 2K and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, notable for the Dreamcast crashing while live on national television in one of its first TV demonstrations.
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Jeff Gerstmann was dismissed from his position at GameSpot as editorial director on November 28,2007.
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On March 15,2012, the staff of Giant Bomb announced that the site had been acquired by CBS Interactive, owners of CNET, meaning that Jeff Gerstmann would be working alongside his former employer, GameSpot.
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Jeff Gerstmann announced his departure from Giant Bomb on June 6,2022.
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Jeff Gerstmann elaborated on the podcast's first episode 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.
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Jeff Gerstmann elaborated further in an October 2022 episode of the podcast, stating that he "got fired three weeks before [he] was going to quit"; while uncertain as to the exact circumstances surrounding his dismissal, he noted that he had become disillusioned at that time, as it had become clear that his goals for the website would not be possible under Red Ventures, their parent company at the time.
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In 1997, Jeff Gerstmann was interviewed on Electric Playground after winning an NFL Blitz tournament.
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Jeff Gerstmann was a regular guest on Bonus Round, which was a panel topic discussion show on the video game industry presented by Geoff Keighley on GameTrailers.
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Jeff Gerstmann announced that he became married on February 16,2016, on the Giant Bombcast.
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On July 22,2019, Jeff Gerstmann announced the birth of his first child.