DevourerOfTime

Pretty surprising announcement considering how driven that man has been to work for Gamespot. We'll see what is in store for him in the future and I wish him the best of luck.

As an aside: Danny has been very vocal in saying that working for Gamespot was his dream and worked towards it his whole life. With him leaving, what is tying him to any of the decisions he made along the way to get to working at Gamespot? That's not just staying in Games Journalism and not flipping to the developer/publisher/PR side of things, but also why stay in San Fransisco? Why stay in the United States?

Sure, he just got married not too long ago and that throws a wrench in there, but what changes she is comfortable with making in her life is between her and him. Honestly, I could see him moving back to the EU and working for Eurogamer or another European publication.

The natural end product of living in a year-round temperate climate that allows for homeless people to survive without shelter and a culture/government that does not do enough to aid and, ultimately, end homelessness within its population.

Wow that's.... actually quite a shock. Figured he'd be at that company forever. Or at least a decade. But the gaming jesus does what he wants, and the new project sounds to be something that he is stoked to be pursuing, so good on him.

Updated the title and the original post to reflect the recent development.

Please join me in congratulating both Austin Walker for picking up such a talented reporter for Vice and congratulating Patrick Klepek on being hired at such a sweet gig. Could not be happier for our duders.

@pastor_richards said:

Yes, you are correct that people shuffling around is very common in the industry. But it seemed like, with people who are relevant to the Giant Bomb community, it's been a wave, not a constant drizzle, since E3. That's what had me shocked. And, to add to it, they are all separate events. It's not like a game just shipped and a bunch of people who worked on it took better opportunities elsewhere.

And, not to diminish what we do (I'm a programmer), but having journalists leave publications is a much bigger event to the public than people shifting from one company to another behind the scenes. Giant Bomb is proof that Games Journalism is, on one level or another, a personality driven business and the public will go where the personalities they like go, for the press is the connection the public has to the industry. Sure, that's not as true as it used to be, as Nintendo has their own people talking about their games on youtube and people trust content creators more and more, but that just speaks to how, those that are left with a piece of the pie on the journalism side have to be more and more personality driven to keep people interested in their work.

Like, just look at your twitter feed (if you have twitter, that is. Don't blame you if you don't...) and see all the people in this industry wishing him luck, from journalists to indie devs to AAA devs to fans.

Didn't see this on the front page until now and nearly had a heart attack.

Thankfully, he was just referring to getting people to play Silent Hunter.

@castiel:

Full Story here: http://kotaku.com/farewell-kotaku-1784716337

First Austin leaves GBEast

Then Adam leaves Sony

Then Dan is ??? after that Loser Leaves Town match

Now this.

What the hell is even going on anymore in this Giant Bomb connected part of the industry?!

EDIT: Rumours are true! Patrick is joining Vice Gaming alongside other Giant Bomb alumni Austin Walker. It's like our home away from home!

Love ya Austin! Gonna miss ya buddy!