CBS Interactive (GameSpot parent company) buys Giant Bomb

Just got home and am starting the archives. But I read the news article saying that they will discuss Jeff's firing from 2007. That's nuts, I've listened to GFW radio's discussion on it not too far back through the This Year recap so it's all fresh in my mind.
 
Guys.. Guys.. I just remembered this mean no more "Big Big Live Show Live 3" in September this year :(

I don't know who this John Davison guy is..but I guess I need to watch the repeat of his acquisition. I sure do hope jeff doesn't get screwed over again.


I am really interested into the live cast today about why he was fired.


I wonder if that is why Giantbomb was not the offices this week.. they were getting ready to move into San Fran again.
 
lawblob said:
GB and CV were solid. Tested / Screened were kind of disasters, as far as I can tell.

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Very shocked to see Tested so low.

Fjordson said:
Gamespot has a stream going with John Davison talking about all this.

A lot of what he's saying sounds good. Guess we'll see. Says GB and GS are remaining completely separate.
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Linky, please?
 
Suite Pee said:
Should have just had a kickstarter to put the ownership of the site to the game community as a whole.

I'm honestly extremely worried, and I hope my fears are put to rest. This is exactly the kind of business behavior I despise.
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I don't think a Kickstarter would have even come close to what they probably ended up getting. I'm sure it'll be awhile before we hear the details, but I'm sure the crew made off like bandits. $$$
 
The worst thing is no more Giant Bomb x Tested. THAT WAS A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!

Other than that, the more info I read, the more reassured I am about the buyout.
 
CUNT!


... most hilarius and worst outcome I could have imagined for Giantbomb / whiskey media.


this is how I see this going down.

They will say everything is fine. they will continue doing bombcasts/QL/TNT.

Then after a few months someone will leave for another job.... then another.... then another....

Would Jeff even go back to cnet/CBS?? (EDIT: I guess he if actually going to finally address what went down? cool)

I just hope they keep gamespot and GB separate.


Also Fuck patrick.. this is his fault.


Tested working with the Mythbusters guys is kind of awesome I guess. I will miss the GB cross overs.
 
Zefah said:
That's how this kind of thing always starts...

Everyone excited about the possibilities of working together yet still remaining independent. It rarely lasts.
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Exactly, give it a year or so and giant bomb will be nothing like the site many of us enjoy now. It's disappointing because I really thought Jeff and Ryan had something special going with this site from the beginning and it will end up as just another cog in the machine.
 
For now they will have more resources. But sooner or later it will all come crashing down.

GB is done, they're just living on borrowed time. R.I.P.
 
funkystudent said:
CUNT!


... most hilarius and worst outcome I could have imagined for Giantbomb / whiskey media.


this is how I see this going down.

They will say everything is fine. they will continue doing bombcasts/QL/TNT.

Then after a few months someone will leave for another job.... then another.... then another....

Would Jeff even go back to cnet/CBS??


Tested working with the Mythbusters guys is kind of awesome I guess. I will miss the GB cross overs.
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This is exactly what I expect to happen. I just can't imagine Giant Bomb remaining the same under the umbrella of a corporate overlord.

It's really kind of lame that they took such a community-driven site and sold it off Gamespot. Oh well. They have their own lives. They probably didn't want to be the "little underdog" that's just loved by their fans forever.
 
SteveWinwood said:
How the hell is tested that low. They're barely above AV. What on earth. So yeah I guess anything would be better for them. Hopefully more exposure because those guys deserve it.
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My gut feeling is that a personality driven site for tech news is not as interesting to people as a personality driven site for games.

Tested never (or rarely) got early access for reviews and the audience of people who are willing to wait two weeks for, say, an ipad review is tiny compared to the established sites who get reviews out on time.
 
At least we can happy for the GB guys that A) they still have jobs, B) for the time being GB will remain the same and C) they will probably be making a decent paycheck now.

It's kind of crazy if you think about it. A couple of guys starting a site in a basement getting bought out by CBS Interactive in only five years.
 
MThanded said:
I just don't see how gamespot is going to keep GB around. I'll keep hope alive though.
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You don't? They bought them because they have a considerable audience that gives them value. The personalities attached to the brand is what they want. Will they merge with Gamespot in a year or two once it has been established that GB and GS are one and the same? Sure, that argument has merit but there is no way GB will completely disappear in any way other than in name.
 
I think GB was profitable by itself and could sustain itself.

It was probably all the other sites that were bringing them down, sans CV I guess.
 
Saw this coming two years ago when Whiskey Media was in talks with the company I was with about finding extra money to support their sites and bailed when they decided to solely focus on memberships rather than advertising.
 
Holy shit at tested teaming up with mythbusters, seems like they got the much better deal lol. Not that they dont deserve it, but I will really miss having will and norm on the happy hours (which is probably dead now) and on quick looks and bombcasts, etc. Them being seperated is fucking tragic. Also I hope this doesn't mean several more people joining the bombcast, or gamespot doing it with giant bomb, I'd really prefer for just the original foour and replace patrick with dave permanently on all future bombcasts. Also lol patrick does really kill every site he joins.
 
If it all goes bad, the guys can drop out and do a Kickstarter thing!
I'm pretty sure GiantBomb is more well known (and popular?) than Idle Thumbs.

Kickstarter everything

Do we know how much they make with the subscription thing?
 
Caspel said:
Saw this coming two years ago when Whiskey Media was in talks with the company I was with about finding extra money to support their sites and bailed when they decided to solely focus on memberships rather than advertising.
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I mean Jeff is totally right about where the internet is going in regards to advertising, in some of those jar times he really goes into it. But it was just too far ahead of it's time. In the future ad venue won't be off page views... but for now they still are. So you have to have them.
 
This is definitely interesting. I'm just wondering how long they'll be able to operate as separate entities while not diluting either the Gamespot brand (LOL) or Giant Bomb. I couldn't watch the live stream at work, so maybe they addressed this, but isn't there quite a bit of overlap between the two sites in coverage? Are they going to send people from both entities to every event?

Access to more resources is cool, I just hope that everything stays the same for quite a long time. I've really enjoyed Giant Bomb's existence in a post 1UP Show world.
 
Patryn said:
It's just that this has never worked out for a gaming site that is being acquired.
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So, the major examples here are IGN by News Corp, and 1UP by UGO, right? Well, the former was ran by folks with nowhere near as much integrity as the GB lot, and the latter was saved from complete death.

We don't know how this will work out, and there's nothing to point us in either direction.
 
Ok, so things seem to be more clear to me now. This doesn't suck nearly as much as I originally thought. Def gonna miss Norm/Will though. Also is Rorie really on his own?
 
frequency said:
If it all goes bad, the guys can drop out and do a Kickstarter thing!
I'm pretty sure GiantBomb is more well known (and popular?) than Idle Thumbs.

Kickstarter everything

Do we know how much they make with the subscription thing?
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They had a Kickstarter: the Subscriptions... which seemed to keep them afloat for a while until now.
 
No_Style said:
I watched John Davison talk about the acquisition & he knows what's up. I'm not worried.
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You aren't worried while John is there. This will make no sense if he leaves and someone else moves in, why would you have two extremely similar sites in the same office competing against each other?
 
As long as nothing changes I'm fine with this, more resources at their disposal I guess.

The people who fired Jeff are gone so I don't see a problem with it.
 
SteveWinwood said:
I mean Jeff is totally right about where the internet is going in regards to advertising, in some of those jar times he really goes into it. But it was just too far ahead of it's time. In the future ad venue won't be off page views... but for now they still are. So you have to have them.
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Yeah =/ I don't know the specifics since the company I was with wanted to potentially buy GiantBomb but Whiskey had their own ideas they wanted to explore.

Good luck to them all. Exciting but risky industry the journalists are in. It's an odd day since on the flipside, another company that was similar to GiantBomb (1UP) went through layoffs after the merger/buyout from IGN.
 
f0rk said:
You aren't worried while John is there. This will make no sense if he leaves and someone else moves in, why would you have two extremely similar sites in the same office competing against each other?
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CBS Interactive is a media company. They want as much media as possible. They're not competing directly; they both cover games, sure, but they do so in a different way. There's tons of companies that own a dozen websites or newspapers that cover almost the exact same topic, and it works fine. If this was, say, GameSpot taking over IGN, that'd be two sites doing the same thing. But GiantBomb is a very different site editorially from GameSpot, and has some very unique strengths that CBS Interactive probably really liked.
 
Dark Schala said:
They had a Kickstarter: the Subscriptions... which seemed to keep them afloat for a while until now.
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The subscriptions were to support all the sites on Whiskey Media though right?

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just do one site?

But eh. I'm not really convinced GB is doomed because of this so...
 
Guess I better start downloading the Persona 4 endurance run before it gets GameSpot watermark/intros slapped onto everything.
 
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