June 2nd 2008 - Vinny and Brad joined the crew!

That's right, that flew a bit under the radar but last week was the celebration of the 1rst anniversary of Brad and Vinny joining our favorite crew!

So congrats you two and I can't believe this has been a year already. So here's to another great year of giant bomb content with Brad and Vinny!

Any favorite Brad or Vinny moments?

As someone who wasn't really an avid Gamespot follower I'd never heard of Vinny before (naturally I knew of Jeff, Brad and Ryan, mind) and honestly, I hate to say, but I couldn't stand him when he first joined the podcast.

But now I'm a big fan. He's great in podcast, steers conversation, asks the right questions to keep podcast informative and I think he's a great asset to the team.

I'm racking my brains for a favourite moment, but nothing's really coming to me. However that's not to say there are none because the Bombcast has me stitches literally every week.

Brad is actually my favourite writer on the site too. His writing is clever because it treads the line of entirely casual and magazine-esque -- in that I mean, his writing is fancier than straight-up blogging, but it's more conversational than the pretentious rubbish they print in EDGE.

That then marks the one year anniversary of GB being everything that was awesome about gamespot, and some more

I have to say, I never really followed Gamespot, so I was  only vaguely aware of these guys. Bu when I saw Gerstmann in an episode of the Bonus Round on Gametrailers in November, I decided to check out Giant Bomb and I've enjoined following it for a while. Didn't sign up for an account until a month go, but now its my homepage. The thing that distinguishes Giant Bomb from other sites is the personality behind it. Brad and Vinny are  a large part of that and their contributions to the site and Bombcast every week are awesome. I even went back to Gamespot and started listening to some old episodes of The Hot Spot.

Can't think of any moments in particular, nut Vinny's pretty damn funny and Brad's a great writer...

P.S. On a side note, don't you think Dave should become a regular on Bombcast??

I like Vinny's "Shepard"

I only started listening to the Bombcast in August, but I've just downloaded the podcast from the 3rd of June which was Vinny and Brad's first one

I think I'll go listen to the first team-complete cast now, since I never heard it before. Great idea, Daz.

Brad's my favorite writer on the site, and has been one of my favorites for some time (back in the gamespot days.) He's also a great interviewer, and despite the fact that he always manages to fail multiple times, I find his quick-looks to be the most informative.

I remember when they joined, I was thrilled! So awesome. Happy aniversary guys!

I love when they asked Alex to join the Giant Bomb crew, but then announced that Alex had gotten the job at Harmonox, and Vinny said sadly "awe, does that mean we have to take the cake back?" Man, I think that happened back before the two of them had officially joined the team.

To another amazing year for Giantbomb!

I agree with sentiments that others have expressed about Vinny. He was never really one of the big personalities on Gamespot and when he joined Giantbomb my attitude towards him was indifferent. I thought he was going to be a behind the scenes guy just like he was for the majority of his time on Gamespot. But I am glad that he decided to partake in both on and off screen activites on Giantbomb. In just one year, Vinny has become one of the strongest assets of the Giantbomb crew and his participation in endurance run and on podcasts among other things have made these products much more enjoyable than they were perhaps meant to be. My only disagreement with Vinny is his hatred of "FLOWer"; how can you hate on a game like that? Oh well, I still find him really entertaining.

Oh, and everyone knows Brad was hired just for his looks.

Jeff: Yo, Brad, go over there and look pretty in front of camera  talking to these developers while I finish eating the rest of my Burger King sandwitch and my two DIET cokes with my  routine energy drink.

Brad: K'.

Wow it's been a year?  Vinny and Brad are great, GB for the win.