Rev3Games shutting down

@hammondoftexas: I must agree Hammond of Texas

It's a real shame Tara is leaving the games media. A lot of my favorite voices have left in the last couple of years or so.

Good luck to everyone.

Tara's video is really good and really sad. Wish them the best.

Didn't Rev3 have the Area5 guys there working for them a while ago? I lost interest when Sess went insane started flame wars and then claimed innocent while holding gasoline cans.

Sucks. The Adam/Tara/Max era was one of my favorite game teams. Good stuff came out of there, and it was nice to see Nick keeping busy.

I hope we get to hear Nick come on the podcast soon, or at least on Bombing in the AM.

Sad but from what I've seen Tara has moved on to do other stuff for the Discovery network.

Damn, Tara was one of the best in the biz. Criminally under-appreciated.

and she's gone from games altogether :(

I guess it isn't a surprise, she's obviously a very intelligent and talented person, she probably has a lot of opportunities outside of games media that offer her more fulfilling work and likely significantly better compensation.

Best of luck to her and the rest of Rev3.

That's sad news. I wish the best to people like Tara and Nick and land on their feet elsewhere.

A real bummer that they are shutting down....but since Adam left, Rev3 was not the same thing, I think him and Jeff are by far the best editors in the industry, thought they have different styles.

Bummer. Best of luck to those folks!

Yeah I stopped paying attention to Rev3 after Sessler left. Shame that it's shutting down but I guess it was inevitable when a large portion of the talent left to pursue other opportunities.

@yummylee: Tara is pretty awesome. But first we need to get Lisa and Mary all up in the GB crew.

Just want to add one more plea for Giant Bomb to find a way to hire Tara.

She's damn good at this video game journalism stuff - GB would be lucky to have her.

Man, Tara Long was already working with Discovery on their Youtube Channel so I'm not surprised to see she's going all the way into that stuff, but it's still a little disheartening to see her go. I always felt like she had a great editorial voice, and really steered the Rev3 Games ship until Nick came into his own. Great team editorially, and their production values were always really nice, so I'm sure they'll all land on their feet sooner or later.

Hope Tara's TV show is good. She's the only reason I still checked out Rev3Games anymore.

TBH GB is lucky that they had a "sponsor" for their first few years while they were finding their footing, then having a relatively large loyal fan base willing to help them out via Premium Subscriptions. GB is the only video games site I've ever given money to. That says a lot about them :).

Because of that, they were able to get big enough to be bought by CBSi. I hate to say it, but if they didn't go the route they did, they could've crumbled as well...before Premium subs, they were probably bleeding money, because they didn't have advertising on the site either.

Poor Babylonian/Nick; was nice to see a GB intern out there in the wild. Hopefully he lands on his feet.

I liked Tara a lot, so it's a shame she doesn't seem interested in continuing in games work. She was the best thing Rev3 had, IMO, even when Sessler was still around.

I have to admit that I stopped watching a lot of their stuff once Sessler left (although I've just not really been on YouTube for a while), but Tara always seemed pretty cool and it's a real shame she's leaving the games biz. Hope all the folks there find somewhere good.

Tara always seemed bored. Nick is an amateur with 0 personality. Rev3 was walking dead as soon as Sessler left.

Tara and Nick aren't nearly enough to carry that channel. Adam, Anthony, and Max left. They WERE the channel.

There was no hope after that. Good try, though.

I've never seen a "site" (for lack of a better term) go through such a rise and then just fall almost immediately. When they were going strong with Max, Tara, Adam, etc. I really enjoyed them. Then one by one they all fell by the wayside and it was just a hollow husk. Sort of a shame.

After Sessler left I stopped watching the channel.

I hope they land on their feet and I was a fan of Rev 3 around the time that Sessler and Max were there but GB can't hire everyone.

It's been mentioned before that they even have a hard time getting a freelance budget so I think it'll be a long time before anyone new is brought in. So let's just enjoy the site as it is... I'm loving all of the new content.

Again though, Nick and Tara are pretty cool, best of luck to both.

That sucks to hear.

It would. Back when GB was hiring and there were all those "Who do you want GB to hire?" threads I mentioned Tara.

Although I really like the guy I stopped watching while he was still there.

Rev3 simply didn't offer anything above what anyone else was doing and the stuff they did produce wasn't especially amazing either.