The Brand-New GameSpot is here!

@chaser324: The Beyond Two Souls CSS3 Animation.

@meaninoflife42: 404 The Roguening

Looks clean, albeit slightly too dense with content.

@blu3v3nom07: No, that background is actually a looping HTML5 video. There's a static jpeg in there as a fallback for browsers that don't support HTML5 video.

they got giantbomb all up in that gamespot

I think it kind of amazing how Giant Bomb came to be and now GameSpot has adopted the Giant Bomb look. It's amazing how things change. The site looks great, and it was in need of a new paint job.

Danny dedicates a couple of seconds to Ryan in the re-introduction video. And I can confirm that the new mobile website is gamespot.com, rather than m.gamespot.com

It looks really nice on mobile. And my sap phone can't screenshot it. One day, Billy!

Pretty much. Slicker, certainly, but there's still not a ton on Gamespot that I'm interested in besides the hijinks of the GS UK crew and maybe the occasional review from Kevin. Skimming through Tom McShea's "Second Opinion" on Bioshock Infinite reminded me exactly why I don't much care for the rest of their editorial staff.

The gamespot users are whining like little babies. Someone literally said "you fucked up our site".

OUR SITE.

I can't believe how much their users are shitting on their new site. Like fuck. You'd think it was just a bunch of 8 year olds whining and saying they're going to go live with another family(IGN). I don't like to talk down about other sites in favour of GB but wow do I love the GB community especially compared to other websites that unfortunately have vocal users like those ones who can never see any good in anything.

Anyways, the big issue I had with the old site and maybe it'll be this new one too is how much content they have, most of it isn't unique or important(news stories for everything possible, screen shots, random short gameplay videos) so it buries a lot of stuff that is, and that's a shame.

Also Danny's part in the New Gamespot video was amazing, he's the next generation of old Gamespot/Giant Bomb crew video game content producer.

Loved the small shout-outs of Jeff's reconciliation and tribute to Ryan in their re-launch video. Loved it.

@shockd: do you just make all this shit up in your head? Or do you think what you said is actually true?

To be fair, Tom McShea is one man, and also presents himself in such a way that makes him very desirable to punch.

You can swap the word Gamespot with any other website name and that statement would hold true. The internet wants change, but hates change.

@tournamentofhate: its a shame, I did drop by the site and they got some pretty cool features over there, its unfortunate that segments of the gamespot community aren't appreciating it.

Yeah, Tom McShea's take on Bioshoc Infinite is up there now with a score of 4/10. It confused the hell out of me until I saw it was a second review.

I bet you could've found someone saying that for this new site as well

I don't think I saw a single "WTF This new site sucks" on Giant Bomb. There was some criticism though.

Add in another "WTF is this shit?"

McShea isn't my only problem with Gamespot's editorial staff (I don't much care for Carolyn Petit or Peter Brown, and I can give or take Chris and Maxwell), but he's the only one with an overbearing air of smugness to compliment his writing.

Why did they inherit GBs "new releases" design =( Gamespots old design was the best one out there I knew of (and one of the only reasons I visited their site). The GB design is just terrible for actually looking up what's coming out when.

The main site is ok, but the new GS forums are fucking awful. Aside from the usual bugs you'd expect from a new forum (loading errors, etc.), they pretty much are a complete rip off of Giant Bomb (without anything that I like about this forum).

They tossed out all of the old Gamespot code and are using Giant Bomb code templates for easier maintenance across sites.

I think the site overall is better than it was. The review pages though...I still think the giant image then block of text then another giant image and more blocks of text is terrible design. It looks ok if your browser window is about two inches wide or probably if you are looking at it on a phone but neither of those you should really do that often. I do like the idea of the big animated top banner though.

I give the new gamespot an 8.8

I very rarely visit GS because I don't like it much but I think the redesign looks good. Although, and this is something that has always bothered me about the GS site, it feels really overcrowded with content. Also I seriously can't believe the forums over there, I mean I know the internet freaks out over any amount of change but really?! Of course it's gonna be wonky for the first few days or so.

You don't understand. There were a lot of small features from the old site that one could easily overlook such as page links in the thread title or the number of unread posts in a thread, which aren't present in the new design. In addition, there are still some bugs such as not being able to change avatars. Worst of all, the On the Spot archive seems to be missing and some of the videos for older games as well. One of my main gripes with the new site is the addition of unnecessary scrolling due to those huge headers that can be found in so many web site designs today.

Unfortunately, with the way they're going with the reviews by having an alternative take may be a problem. I mean, Bioshock Infinite a 4.0? Come on, you can dislike that game, but it still doesn't deserve that low.

I think it's much better. There just isn't much there I care enough to click on.

Video player doesn't seem like much of an improvement, though.

Funny how watching videos on the internet seemed much better in 2010 than now.

@slag said:

I give the new gamespot an 8.8

Let's start a trend, folks.

Now they can finally start working on this site. That's all I care about.

@dalai said:

@slag said:

I give the new gamespot an 8.8

Let's start a trend, folks.

ok

@johnbakosh: I do no understand the reason why you're upset with my comment unless you're a fanboy of GS. But as others have expressed to agree with me, it appears that you're the one with the false image in your head.

@royce_mccutcheon We all know that; you get the point... I hope.

The relaunch video just showed off why I will never care for Gamespot. Those guys are just stale, cardboard cutouts masquerading as humans, completely devoid of personality. It was obvious during the Wednesday live show. The site has no entertaining personalities, which is key nowadays. Also having fools like Tom McShea (who just HAD to get a Bioshock Infinite review out there because he irrationally despises the game) ensures I have no reason to visit them.

A resounding meh.

wow, I'm so impressed, was afraid it'd look like the old design but looks slick. Amazing work

Looking more and more like GiantBomb every day...

... how long until they try and merge the two back together :S

I finally found all the old "On the Spot" videos and "The Hotspot" podcast because I never watched it when the Bombcrew was there and they change the site and its all gone. Fuck you Gamespot. That was the only reason I wanted to visit your site.

I think the site looks a little too busy, at the front page you immediately get three columns of stuff to look at, and it's a little overwhelming. It doesn't help that they are the same size so your eye is not drawn to a main list. Other than it looks like Polygon/every other video game website designed in the last year, though I much prefer Polygon as it looks so much cleaner.

I'm a gamespot expat and nothing they can do will make me go back.

Every time I go to Gamespot it seems like their content is being largely produced in the UK office. Nothing wrong with that of course, I like Jess McDonell and Danny, but it's weird cause I always associated GameSpot with being this huge US site.

Edit: I guess Jess is Australian.

Double Edit: Overall, except for the part where the videos don't play if you have adblock enabled, with a heavy heart I have to say I kinda like the layout more than Giant Bomb. It's the annoying Web 3.0 aesthetic, but they manage to push more information onto the main site whereas I feel GB is really bloated and disorganized. Sometimes you have a new Quick Look come out only to be buried under news stories from a day ago.

Weird!

Looks alright I guess. I've never really frequented gamespot and I really don't see that changing. The video was nice though. Danny is probably the only thing I find endearing about that site.

Yah the mobile site looks really good. Hopefully the GB site will finally catch up.

Wait, what? When did this happen? Is there a changelog? What does that entail? 250% more javascript nonsense, I am sure.

Real nice design, now if only i could filter out the US content

@atomic_dumpling: I use the term to describe the new look where websites auto adjust when viewed on a mobile device meaning they look bad everywhere

K. Do we get our Giant Bomb site maintenance/design people back now? Please?

I think it looks really fantastic. If it makes sense, I would love to see certain features come over to GB, like the giant gifs in the reviews. Alexis and the rest of the team did a brilliant job.