How did you find Giant Bomb?

One day (WAY before Multi-Pass), while I was on one of the whiskey sites (AV), I noticed that there were some others were there as well when I clicked on the Whiskey Media logo. I took a few visits here and later decided to join because I thought it would be fun. I'm so glad I was right! Do any of you have a story about how you discovered GB as well?

Just a heads up, quite a few threads on this subject have been created before. I found Jeff Gerstmann's blog through someone's blog on Gamespot back before the site launched. Jeff was talking about Giant Bomb there, I signed up and I was part of the site on day one.

Some dude posted on the gamespot forums about giantbomb, so I came here and realized that these were all the old guys from GS and stayed for the quick looks 

Back sometime in 2008 I was searching around for what happened to Jeff at Gamespot, I came to a wiki page and saw this page and saw this picture:  
 
This. 
 
I can't remember if it was on Jeff's wiki page or something else but I went and checked out this so-called "giant bomb" and was hooked. Can't remember exactly when I first visited but it was back when the homepage still had the lists of the most popular searched on the site were, like hamburger and stuff.

Gamespot > Arrow Pointing Down > Giantbomb

 I think it was a link to the MAG quick looks from N4g. It was a slooow process.  They hide their goodies well and are generally not inviting to new people. But now I love the site.

Looking for videos of Borderlands right before it was released and found the quick look

First seen the interview with Jeff on Xplay  and Giant Bomb was more or less being announced. But my first time experiencing Giant Bomb was when I downloaded an episode of video game podcasts off Itunes. Been hooked ever since and have listened to every episode! Even the APD stuff.

I had been a fan of the guys work since their gamespot days. So I found out about it as they were starting it up via Jeffs blog and arrowpointingdown. 
 
I loved the 'how to build a bomb' series of videos. A nice look into how these things start up, and funny also. If you're a more recent addition to the GB family, I would recommend you look them up.

" Just a heads up, quite a few threads on this subject have been created before. I found Jeff Gerstmann's blog through someone's blog on Gamespot back before the site launched. Jeff was talking about Giant Bomb there, I signed up and I was part of the site on day one. "

Was reading up about Gamespot on Wikipedia (cuz that's what I like to do, read about random stuff on Wikipedia) and reached the controversies section. There the whole Jeff firing thing was mentioned, and I read that he was gonna start a new site called Giantbomb so I ended up signing up on launch day .

It was kind of a big deal over at gamespot when it started out.
 
that's probably how most of the users here found out about it.

I saw a YouTube video of "NEVER" on a Kotaku thread. lol.

Google.

Well I first started to get into the whole podcast thing a few years back with 1UP Yours. That podcast really sparked my interest in video game journalism and news so I hit up Itunes to see other video game podcast and came across the Bombcast. So, I guess the podcast brought me to the website and it has been my homepage ever since :)

" Just a heads up, quite a few threads on this subject have been created before. I found Jeff Gerstmann's blog through someone's blog on Gamespot back before the site launched. Jeff was talking about Giant Bomb there, I signed up and I was part of the site on day one. "

Joystiqs coverage of the "firing" got me onto Jeffs blog and followed that for a few months until they announced GB, then followed that while it was a blog. I had seen the stuff on Gamespot before all that but was never that into the site, just its crew.

From Jeff's blog back on March 5, 2008, the day Giant Bomb started.

" Since his 'departure' with Gamespot, I followed Jeff to see wath he'd do next. And at one point he announced he was going to startup a game site of his own! With a few former associates of GS. "

Seen Ryan getting interviewed on some show, checked out the site and that was that.

I sensed something awesome was happening on the internet and instinctively typed giantbomb.com

" Gamespot > Arrow Pointing Down > Giantbomb "

GameTrailers' podcast.

Someone was talking about the Persona 4 endurance run on /v/ when it started so I came to check it out and stayed.

Got kicked out for expressing my opinions too loudly on The Escapist.  I was expressing support for piracy. Mods there like to target you when you say anything you don't like, so I figured I'd talk louder and louder until they booted me. Wandered around trying to find a new video game / internet / time wasting home. Tried a bunch of sites and found them to be full of slimy /b/tard want-to-be's. Eventually I found this place and was amazed and then amazed several times more by how free and wonderful it is. Giant Bomb is the shit and must remain the shit into the future.

In late 08 I searched for a review of a game I don't remember the name of. Giantbomb.com came up. 
 
As I continued to watch reviews I saw that all the "good old guys" from gamespot was here. Been lurking around ever since.

After seeing the Penny Arcade comic about Jeff's firing from Gamespot, I discovered him and Ryan doing the Arrow Pointing Down podcast. The rest is history.

" Gamespot > Arrow Pointing Down > Giantbomb "

Gamespot. 
 
I followed his post-KaneAndLynch Blog for a while bug kinda lost interest after that first month of inactivity but I remembered that blog a year later and Here I am now.

Followed Jeff after the Gamespot thing, loved his Achivement Points videos at that point then started following Ryan's Arrow Pointing down thing and  all of a sudden "hey this thing is a blog for now" came up which was giantbomb and I was there from day one.. Then Giantbomb became a real thing.. 
And then came the trolls... 

I followed Ryan and Jeff after the incident at Gamespot.

From google haha

I saw the very first podcast on Itunes and listened to it. I then checked the blog religiously til the site went live. Day one member bitches!

The bombcast. 
 
After searching the iTunes store for an decent podcast about video games I stumbled upon the Bombcast and never looked back. I listened to the most recent episode at the time and a few backlogged ones and became hooked. I think 15 minutes into the first one I checked out the website and have been a member ever since. 
 
This was at the beginning of 09 I think?

My cousin, who is also my main gaming friend, told me about it.

I was reading 1UPs review of Bad Company 1 and it was bad. Someone on the comments told me to read Jeffs review an it was great. I stuck around for a bit until I started visiting heavily in June 2009.

I knew who Jeff was on Gamespot but I always thought of him as a fat prick. But he's fucking awesome as hell.

Stumbled onto Gamespot and like the shenanigans (I said shenanigans, derp!)  they pulled. I remember the incident happened and seeing the tribute video for Jeff. At first I thought he died because they didn't say what actually happened! Heard about his blog and followed from there on out, I actually joined the forum a year or so ago.

" Gamespot > Arrow Pointing Down > Giantbomb "

I came from Gamesradar after Jeff showed up to talk about his score of MK vs. DCU. He was pretty awesome so I checked out the site.

Searching for Jeff on Google, found his blog, found the Arrow Pointing Down podcast, was psyched when they made the site.

The GiantBomb user Vinchenzo is a friend of mine in real life and he sent an XBL message that had the link to GiantBomb. I checked it out and then joined. 
 
 
 
And then I actually started using it like a month and a half later.

A cracked.com article two years ago.

On another forum I use to go on, someone posted a link to GiantBomb when it was originally just a blog with the 'How to Build a Bomb' videos, I started following it and listening to the Arrow Point Down podcasts and then joined GB on day one when it started.

people from gamespot were talking about gaintbomb. so i joined the site and got banned from gamespot so here i am.

Someone posted an E3 video on Game Trailers and I decided to check out the site.