Gamespot On the Site? - General Discussion

#1 Posted by Stradimus (56 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

So I may not have a solid grasp of Giant Bomb history, but I thought the leaving of Jeff with the rest of the guys was not exactly "pleasant". Like I said, I could be very wrong about this concept but if I am right, what is with the Gamespot logo at the bottom of the site with all the social media links?

#2 Edited by dungbootle (2247 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

Giant Bomb is owned by CBS Interactive which also owns GameSpot, as of last year. Also, they are in the same office now. They cool.

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#3 Edited by ThePencil (382 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

CBSi bought GiantBomb and ComicVine a while back. Here's a link to the gamespot vid with Jeff explaining some of the stuff that went down.

Giantbomb and Gamespot

#4 Posted by Stradimus (56 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

Oh! Thanks for the info! One last point of confusion, I thought that the Bombcast crew (for the most part) were the ones that owned it originally. Did they sell the company? Or am I completely wrong here?

#5 Posted by mellotronrules (976 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

"...just woke up from a 5 year sleep...hear we've got a website now!"

#6 Posted by JasonR86 (7676 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

The Gamespot logo as big as it is on the bottom of the page is still a little weird. What's also weird is that on Gamespot there's a Giantbomb link as well as many, many other sites. Which makes the Gamespot logo being the only logo on here weird in another way. Shit's weird.

#7 Edited by ll_Exile_ll (539 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

@stradimus said:

Oh! Thanks for the info! One last point of confusion, I thought that the Bombcast crew (for the most part) were the ones that owned it originally. Did they sell the company? Or am I completely wrong here?

Jeff was the head of editorial, but the site itself was owned by CNET, but has since been bought by CBSi.

#8 Posted by Chaser324 (3813 posts) - 3 months, 4 days ago

@stradimus: I'm not really clear what company you're referring to, but Giant Bomb was previously owned by Whiskey Media. As part of the deal last year where BermanBraun acquired Whiskey Media, Comic Vine and Giant Bomb were sold off separately to CBSi.

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