" I used to visit GameSpot all the time, and then after Jeff got let go, I didn't really go to any video game websites for awhile.  Then I decided to see whatever happened to old Jeff Gerstmann, and I found GB. "

" @PeasantAbuse said:

" I used to visit GameSpot all the time, and then after Jeff got let go, I didn't really go to any video game websites for awhile.  Then I decided to see whatever happened to old Jeff Gerstmann, and I found GB. "

me too "

I cant remember if it was google or metacritic i found GB through, but i sure am glad that i did find this site!

was on gamespot from like 02 and generall followed their blogs after they started them, led to the creation of the giantbomb blog then....this

Like a lot of others here, I was a big fan or these dudes at Gamespot. Unlike slot of others here, the first time I saw Giantbomb.com, I was reading the "Jeff Gerstmann is still alive" blog on the can, on my iPod touch.

I found it via walkthrough in the beginning of '09 using Google, then caught the first 5 of eps of the P4 ER in one sitting. At that moment I realized I got hooked.

Followed Jeff till this site was born.

Followed The gurst man from gamespot to his blog and then to here.

The Bonus Round on gametrailers told me what Jeff's new site was. Watched one of those "Quick Look" things and have never left. Or went back to gametrailers.

I believe I heard about Jeff Gerstman working on a new project, and randomly decided to check it out. I checked back to the site many times over the following weeks, when it was still a true blog. Also, their podcasts were the first I'd ever really listened to. So, I stuck around, and now they have my favourite gaming site on the web, as well as my favourite podcast.

Reading about the Gerstmann departure from GS. Lurked for a week, signed up, love it.

I discovered the site after I found Wikia, randomly. I liked the look of Wikia, but I thought it wasn't well enough tied together from wiki to wiki. So, I decided to search for a games wiki, and stumbled upon Giant Bomb. I thought the interface to the site was radically different to anything I had seen before, and decided I'd sign up based on that alone. When I did so, I discovered the joys of editing the wiki. I only found the forums quite some time later, and that explains why I have such a low post count. I didn't know much about Jeff Gerstmann being sacked from GameSpot, but I remember using GameFAQs and GameSpot quite regularly in 2007 (after I got my laptop). 

Followed jeff from gamespot to his blog and then it was turned into GB

" I sorta just followed the Gerst man from Gamespot to his blog to this.  Mostly because of his Achievement points reports and features. "

I followed Jeff after the whole Gamespot debacle. Been following since the Arrow Pointing Down days.

Yeah, I had also been following the Giant Bomb guys for years while they were at Gamespot, then briefly on JeffGerstmann.net and arrowpointingdown.com right before they started Giant Bomb. I was able to secure my first name as my screen name because I had been eagerly awaiting the site launch for months, so I registered within minutes of the site going live.  :P

CAGcast told me about the Bombcast near when it started, never really used the site until the day it launched, never been off since.

I have followed Jeff since he left gamespot, followed his blog and stuff, and now im here :D

SOME PEOPLE from Videogum told ME ABOUT THIS site and said IT WAS FUCKIN awesome. AND IT IS!

By coincidence. 

The bombcast brought me over, after a year of listening I finally visited the site. Giantbomb actually has personality unlike other gaming websites

Like many others I joined on day one having listened to the short lived Arrow Pointing Down podcast and before that been a regular gamespot user for several years.

One day I remembered about Jeff Gerstmann's firing from Gamespot, so I checked out his Wikipedia page to see what he was up to. I found Giant Bomb, and I fell in love almost immediately. I rarely visit Gamespot anymore. I've gone back and watched every single Quick Look, all the mailbags and other features, and both Endurance Runs. I just can't get enough Giant Bomb!

Man, I don't even know... 

" I sorta just followed the Gerst man from Gamespot to his blog to this."

gamespot

I was looking up info on Shin Megami Tensei II and it linked to the wiki page. 
After an hour I signed up and never looked back.

My friend told me that Jeff Gerstmann started a new site after leaving Gamespot and I check it out, this was back when it first started with those 'How to build a bomb' videos.

I was looking for a site that could tell me how to build bombs and then I stumbled on this site with videos called: How to build a bomb. Perfect I thought. Now after who knows how long I'm still waiting for Ep. 11... Where they hopefully actually start showing how to build a bomb. In the mean time I entertain myself with the other stuff. 

" Wikipedia told me where to find Mr. gerstmann. so I went to his new site.  "

I was looking at reviews of Too Human and found this site 
Made an account one year later 
I've never left

Not too long after Jeff and Ryan left the site someone posted in the comments of the Hotspot that they had a new podcast. So Since the second episode of The Arrow Pointing Down Podcast I have been a GBer even before the site existed. I was here for the blog days and signed up day one.

" @keyhunter said:

" I sorta just followed the Gerst man from Gamespot to his blog to this. "

This. I was a fan of the old GameSpot and spent most of the last decade watching their video reviews back when your only option was an embedded windows media player with terrible quality and slow buffering. "

Heard about them from another video game website.

I loved reading Jeff and Greg's review's as well as watching On The Spot, and I wondered where they were so I read up on wikipedia and found out that Jeff was at a new website. So I joined the site February of 09

ever since the i'm still alive blog

Step 1: Jeff was on Gamespot and then he wasn't
Step 2: Along came GiantBomb
Step 3: I joined GB

After noticing the Whiskey Media emblem one day at Anime Vice, I noticed the other sites, including Giant Bomb. Explored it one day and I decided to join because I thought it would be fun. Glad I did! :)

I was a long time follower of gamespot  until cnet wrongfully fired Jeff Gerstmann. I tried sticking with games pot for a few weeks after that but fell off their bandwagon once Ryan left. The site just lost it's heart. I found Giantbomb a few months later and never went back.

i heard about jeff from the kane and lynch incident, and then later on i was looking for podcasts and saw bombcast and i was like heeeyyy that's the same guy!  any now i'm here.

GameSpot.

I learned about giantbomb.com from 1up.com.

A few months after the Gamespot Incident, I googled Jeff Gerstmann to see what my favorite game writer from my hometown was up to and it took me to the Giant Bomb blog crawl (in the heady days before the wiki!), and I've been following it ever since.

When Gerstmann was fired I had no clue who he was at the time until I stumbled upon one of his video reviews and said "Oh yeah, that guy! Wow what a bummer, he was neat!" Sometime later I was reading his Wikipedia page for some reason and it linked to Giant Bomb. Signed up two days after the explosion.

 i found giantbomb when brad  was on the 1up yours podcast

Got banned from Gamespot, needed a new forum to run to.

@Gill dude don't feel bad about the low post count, It will be 2 years since I have been a member on Dec 30 and I only have like 36.
 I found Giantbomb by following Jeff from Gamespot to here because I liked his thought of things.