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Welcome Back!

Jeff welcomes all of you to the real Giant Bomb.

I just ate some really sour candy.
I just ate some really sour candy.
Hello and welcome to Giant Bomb. You've come at a very exciting time, as we've just launched the site. I'm trying to think of ways that I could be more excited, and I'm coming up short. We here at Giant Bomb and Whiskey Media have been hard at work on this site for some time now, and we're happy to finally share all this stuff with you.

So what, exactly, is Giant Bomb? That's a good question. it's a lot of things.

- It's a place that will contain the same style of game-related editorial that you've seen on our pre-launch blog. We still have our weekly podcast, game reviews, previews, and commentary on the gaming world around us. We will still bring our opinions to each and every aspect of gaming without fear. We will focus our coverage on the games that you care about, allowing us to go in-depth on the games that matter.

- It's also ready to become a pretty big gaming community. We, naturally, have a healthy forum section that will let you chat it up with other like-minded individuals. In addition to the standard discussion forums, every single page in the database has a forum at the bottom. Want to post specifically about Gears of War 2? Or Astrosmash? We've got your back.

- One difference you may notice from the way other game sites handle their business is that we put the games first, not the platforms. We're pretty tired of all the platform comparisons that end up saying "dude, I don't know, they both look pretty much the same." We have ONE home page for Grand Theft Auto IV where players can come together, regardless of platform of choice, and talk about the game.

- Then, of course, there's the database. We're stacked full of pages for games, platforms, franchises, characters, concepts, objects, locations, accessories, and the people that actually make games themselves.

All of these pages can be attached to one another. So if there's an object (like a hamburger) that shows up in a game (like River City Ransom), you'll be able to see that link. The end result is a page that shows you every game with a hamburger in it.

Truly the future is now.

I've pieced together a brief tutorial video on how to use the site's various features. Take a look!
  
    
I don't really know why there's a picture of Method Man here. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
I don't really know why there's a picture of Method Man here. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Of course, we're not done yet. Not even close. We have a space for arcade and pinball machines that's practically empty. And you may find a few holes here and there while you're looking around. If you turn up some missing pages, you have the power to add it to the site. That's a good way for you to quickly earn points on the site.

We're pretty happy with where we're at so far, and we're already forming plans for the future. So please, poke around the site and see what you think.





Thanks,
Jeff Gerstmann
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Edited By posh

good luck

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HEYYY EVERYBODY

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HEYY EVERYBODYYYY

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Edited By Zaber

good work guy!

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@Skorin
Looking forward to seeing how the site goes!
I don't know, man. Doesn't seem likes it's going to have much staying power.
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Edited By Skorin

Looking forward to seeing how the site goes!

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Edited By Troykus87

Great Site! hmm but the tutorial video does not seem to be working for me :(

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Edited By nhlkiller

Great website Jeff you and the Giantbomb team have done a great job

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Congrats, love the site. Keep it real!


Eat it gamespot!!!

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Edited By pmonnier

Love the site, can't wait to see all the new stuff to come.  Good luck guys & gals!

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Edited By Koopa_kid12

the sites great! Keep up the awsome work!

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Edited By 400_babies

Jeff will you set the record straight on your game spot firing?  Oh Zgreenwall yeah i switched from gamespot i got a stupid ban there for something that i shouldn't have been banned for (they thought it was funny on Myspace, and GLB).  It was a Rick roll but not a normal RIckroll a super Rick Roll and they banned beacause they said it was a "web Hijacking Rickroll" which is complete BS.

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This site, is one of a kind, and I can't wait to utilize it's full potential.  Great work guys!!

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Edited By sirmikael

Thanks for sticking up for us, and I hope this is proof that we're sticking up for you!

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That was fricking incredible. It is even more amazing than I could ever imagined it to be.

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the site blew my mind

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Dude, a picture of the Ticallion Stallion is always a good idea

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Love the site layout.

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Edited By NikoBellic

Great Site....
Thanks for all the yummy goodness.

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Edited By DoomFrog

This thread is epic. I simply must be a part of it.


But seriously, great job guys. I'm now so very pleased that Jeff was fired from Gamespot. Here's to you and all your future success!
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Edited By semicolon1twlev2

I'm a bit late in saying awesome site.  But awesome site!

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Edited By UnnDunn

I guess my only question is... how are y'all paying for this? I don't see any ads anywhere...

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Looks like a great start, looking forward to great things.

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Best of LUCK Jeff. Love your site. THIS is people's choice.

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Site is awesome! Can't wait for all the gaming related shananagins to ensue.

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Edited By ResidentBio

To be honest. i hated you jeff. But i must say this looks like a great site so far. Keep the hard Work.

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Edited By Stellar

I do want to welcome back everyone. It was kind of a sad lose to have everyone in their previous roles leave, but to have them come back together is just awesome. Giant Bomb will hopefully be the one stop shop for gaming, and I'm glad to be on the ground floor of it. I was looking at the blog, and it was nice to see the gradual adding of former favorite faces (or voices).    The site design is easy, and fun looking as well!

Welcome back though guys! It's great to have you back and on the mainstream!



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Edited By Red5112

This site is awesome, BURGS, BURGS, BURGS... in reference to hamburgers. Go Jeff, Ryan, Brad, and Vinny your the  f***ing best, any plans to bring more former GS people to Giantbomb. Maybe a certain Rich Gallup. I know he might be on the Bombcast soon during PAX, but lets try to secrectly to get him to join the bombcast as a regular.  Great job guys.

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glad to see the g-man back in action. well, as long as he stops jock sniffing the burnout franchise. good luck, jeff!

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Great site guys and brilliant idea for all the game-loving fans.

The load times though are attrocious. The guys upstairs need to iron out the performance problems, to make this site more accessible.

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I wonder how many users are just people who switched over from gamespot.

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yea.

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Awesome site, keep up the awesome job

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You guys did a great job with the site. I'm pretty awe struck at the moment. I think i'm gonna go sit in the corner and rock myself to sleep now. 

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Edited By freshgalaxy

AWESOME. I've been readin' your stuff [Jeff] since about the year 2000. It's great to see you continue to reach higher heights man. This will be the best gaming site ever.


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Welcome back? Just arrived.

And I must say I'm quite inclined to stay.

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Edited By BigShot

Hey Giant Bombers and Jeff. I have to admit, when I first looked at comicvine, I was a little worried. But this bomb is a lot more clean than I expected it to be. It's bodacious to say the least. Great Job fellas.

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this site is awesome simply because it contains nearly all the people that made me visit gs over the years, and no one else. i love how it cuts out the bs and just goes straight into the games that people actually care about

now if only you guys could convince AlexN and GregK to leave their jobs and join up with you guys, it would be perfect...

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Are you going to add any mods?

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Edited By pcarichas

Great site! Hope you keep it up. I've been browsing a lot of the site and I'm liking it. 

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Excited for you guys to come back, I use to listen to gamespot podcast all the time, when the incident went down, i stopped listening, I love the new show. !

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Job well done.  I'll be back!

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I got your back!!! Great site!! Way to go guys!!!

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Edited By FaintDeftone

Great to see you guys back together again. All of you were the reason why I visited Gamespot.

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Looks great guys

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Great to see Giant Bomb up and running guys. This site is going to be big I know it!

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I doubt anyone will read this far down... but... the site looks awesome! It's really nice to see something like this that reminds me moreso of what gaming sites were like 10 years ago or so!

Definitely on my bookmark toolbar, yay!

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This is going to be my new gaming home. I can't wait to see all the game pages bulk up with all the user content.!

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Giant Bomb;

You have huge resolution videos and a hell of a lot of code on this site and some of it plays slowly (but actually much faster than Gamespot) because I'm on a three-year-old refurbished computer. Is it a good joke to talk about the system requirements for this website?