Giant Bomb
If you’re not familiar with the whole Gamespot fiasco late last year (where a premier editor was fired after giving a bad review to a heavily advertised game), this Ars Technica article shows a timeline of his firing followed by the departure of five more major Gamespot staff, many of which claim say has to do with the original firing. Gamespot can claim that the firing was unrelated to the advertising and the review, but somehow I doubt it.
While I was poking around in the user comments though, I noticed a link to a site called Giant Bomb. This is a new start-up games site by Jeff Gerstmann (the Gamespot editor who was fired) and other recently ex-Gamespot staff including Ryan Davis and Alex Navarro. I’d say it’s pretty likely that even more recent Gamespot retirees will start having their name show up on this site as well.
The Giant Bomb site has only been posting content since February but they already have some game reviews and news of the quality that I used to come to expect from the old site. If you’re interested in games and gaming news, make sure you bookmark this site as I expect it to become a major player very soon.
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