Exciting News From Your Friends At Giant Bomb

This whole thing may be worth it only to finally find out about the firing.

This and the Mass Effect 3 stuff within a week is not doing pleasant things for my mental well-being!
But if the crew thinks this is the best course of action, I shan't secondguess them... Until it all goes down in flames at least! :)

It's like at Bash at the Beach when Hogan dropped the leg on Macho Man and Nash and Hall raised Hogan's arms revealing him to be the newest member of the NWO.

Unthinkable! =P

Love the unpredictable Jeff... good luck!

I...am not seeing an embedded video. >_>

"Be sure to check back at 4PM PDT, when we'll be addressing my termination."

Oh my god, John Davison is going to kill Jeff!

Individualy, absoloutly.

As a fan, probably not.

Crazy news, can't wait to find out the whole story from 2007 and obviously go on to enjoy the future of GB going forward.

I don't know how to feel, because I loved the fact that I always felt like the community really owned a piece of these sites and seeing everyone from different sites sift into and out of content was amazing. This is just how things have to go and if you guys are excited about it, then I won't be afraid.

Humm... Bigger does not = better, I do not mean to say this sucks and is a bad idea I'm just saying hey you know whats really big IGN, you know what kinda sucks because it's so big IGN.

Oh... :/

Huge news!

@BlobDude said:

I...am not seeing an embedded video. >_>

Yeah, me neither. I have no idea what's going on...

Cautiously optimistic here.

I trust these guys.

I am honestly a bit confused. I enjoy the coverage provided by people like Whiskey Media and Vox Media. Have NEVER seen a merger go well. Engadget/HuffPo. TechCrunch/AOL. Giz

GL;HB!

Seriously guys, this is the wildest news and I'm verrrry interested to see how it all pans out.

What the shit is this?!

...but why

Seriously, what the fuck is going on. Why hasn't this been explained more deliberately? I feel like I'm being intentionally left in the dark and confused and how is this happening with tested and giantbomb at the same time.......... :S

@Jeff: Best of luck to you and everyone involved, I look forward to see what will become of this!

So weird sitting in my room going mental and having no one to talk to in person about this! Great news (I think) can't wait to see how much higher res Vinnie's fire effects get in videos.

Times they are a changing. I'm optimistic though, I have never disliked anything they have done so far why question them now?

Life works in circles i guess.....

What a load of crap. As a paying subscriber I feel a bit betrayed and sad.

Doubling down? More like dumbing down.

First the Mass Effect 3 ending now THIS.
 
I'm going to go buy a tub of icecream and start weeping in the pillows.
Then I will get shitfaced drunk. Continue to weep into the pillow and eat icecream.

WELP

Giantbomb X Gamespot.

I just hope the online's fixed.

I'm concerned, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt. As long as you guys keep being you, everything is cool with me.

@TeeQuartz said:

Want more random PC game stuff too.

really, as long as this happens, I'm fine with whatever else goes down, I think.

I feel good about this. It's also going to be fun to see where Tested is ending up.

@TeeQuartz said:

Want more random PC game stuff too.

really, as long as this happens, I'm fine with whatever else goes down, I think.

I don't think I'm alone when I say that one of the main reasons I was a premium member was to support a small community driven website, that had a lot of original ideas, and great personalities. The subscriber only content was the icing on the cake.

Now, I can't help but feel like we were duped into supporting this website, only to be used as a metric on how quickly the site has grown, and make the website more attractive for buyers.

Whats with Ryan Retweeting stuff like "Nice job of taking a community driven site for funding and content and totally selling out on its users! Never saw that one coming."

Is he trolling? or kind of butthurt as well?

I am intrigued.

Wouldn't it just be the biggest anti-climax ig it turned out Jeff simply GameSpot by his own choice? I know that's not going to happen, but you know. The internet's reaction if it did!

The worst part is there won't be any more interaction between GB and Tested.

I'm honestly terrified.

This sounds like an absolutely horrible and terrifying idea. Also, where can we view Davidson talking to Gerstmann about the 2007 incident? That's what I want to hear about!

I'm literally shaking.

maybe let's not jump to-

oh ... well, too late. carry on, internet.

@Foggen said:

This whole thing may be worth it only to finally find out about the firing.

Just my thinking. I've honestly been really curious about that stuff for a long time.

Only thing I want to know is if this will change anything? Will they suddenly start being PG-13, will they have a lot of rules they need to deal with now? There's a reason I like Giantbomb and not Gamespot... Are there gonna be a whole bunch of new people on the team that we may not like?

If not and it stays the same and crazy and funny, this is awesome for them. Also holy shit about Tested, the motherfuckin Mythbusters.

OH MAN!!!!!!!!! LITERALLY SO MIND BLOWN

The pancakes in mu country are paper thin. Also... this is crazy news!

dammit! I have work at 4!!! Guess I'll hear about it later.

@sirdesmond: that's cute

I see no video... can someone please explain to me what's happening?

Since the premium membership is going away, does that mean everyone will be able to watch the old premium videos?

It's comforting to see how fucking pumped all the staff is about this.

How does the Yearly membership work now?