"GT has come from its humble beginnings to be a post production beast propelled by creative, smart, and hard-working folks. And I love pretty much every single one of them. Things are difficult for gaming web sites these days, and GameTrailers is no different. GT will be changing in the comings months, and after giving it a hard look, it’s not a perfect fit for me. I’ve been working 60- or 70-hour weeks for the past 14 years and I’m a builder by nature. The building at GT is complete and has been for some time. Knowing that the site is in more than capable hands, the timing is right for me to move on to the next chapter of my professional life. Before I started working at GameTrailers I was a fan, and I’ll remain one. You should too.
The decision to come to GameTrailers has been one of the best I’ve ever made, and I’ll always cherish my time creating content for one of the web’s smartest, most-discerning audiences. So I bid adieu, and if you miss me stop on by Twitter (@Dinfire) and say hello. I know I’m going to miss the whole lot of you."
IGN today announced that it has acquired GameTrailers, the venerable video-centric site that launched in 2002 and was shut down in February by its parent company, Defy Media.
Its a good thing they did, but its only because GT has a large fan-base. Which IGN wants.
Edit: @One-Shot Yeah but they will always look for more ways to expand and get more people watching them over Gamespot.
I was watching sometimes Game trailers... for me gamespot and IGN are to immature and reviewers dont know how to play games there (like they really are noobs, watch any sim racing review.. like done with a controller without a wheel).
Best for gamers to watch uncommercialized private youtube videos like Angry Joe show, inside sim racing etc... they are 4 times longer, played by gamers for gamers!
IGN is like commercial full with childish opinions... thanks for saving GT trailers anyway!
I will give it a go, as long as they don't bring over that complete door knob, Max Scoville from PlayStation Beyond, to completely ruin it with his fake persona and BS knowledge of gaming.
I think IGN just wanted their video player.
There's no way anyone ever liked the abomination IGN is using.
Interesting, but GT's competition buying the name and video library isnt quite the revival I think most fans were hoping for. It's like when WWF bought WCW. Wound up being WCW in-name-only. They buried it, creatively.
Most of those GT guys reformed as EasyAllies I believe. Need them back to make it truly mean something. Not much faith in an IGN "raw/smackdown" brand extension. In the end it's still IGN.
You have respect for IGN, an unethical corrupt company of scumbags making a business deal on the downfall of another to get more users to make profit for themselves???
Why would you give them respect just for buying something that someone else created? IGN will ruin gt just like they did there own site. It's just a name now.
It gave uncharted a 9 does that count for anything or a 10 from them would change ur mind about them
Former GameTrailers Staff have decided to come together to create their own company.
Good for them. I wish them all the best of luck and every success for the future.
I shall be tuning in to their shows with great enthusiasm :)
They always had some great stuff and I think it's safe to say that when GameTrailers shut down that everyone felt it. Won't be shocked to see bigger stuff from them as their goals are being reached quickly.
one reason i hated Game Trailers last gen was because of their huge bias towards 360. Switched footages, zooming on the grass blades to make PS3 games look inferior was what made me stop going there. Otherwise, i used to go there for my game trailer dosages. and of course, YouTube also happened.
Having said that, i wish them all the best.
HuberxBosman confirmed. Shenmue hype engaged. For real though, Bosman's show at its best was one of the best game shows going. Dry, sarcastic and glorious.
Shenmue hype is so real. I can't wait for them to actually get their hands on it and see what happens.
Totally agree...it was actually the only legitimately funny gaming related content I've personally ever seen, and I've seen quite a bit. Never really laughed out loud at anything else, but Bosman had so many great bits & was edited perfectly. Hope they get to be even more free w/ their content & create the stuff they want to create w/o corporate oversight.
This image showing a date of 03.21.2016 was posted in twitter by former GameTrailers crew:
Brandon Jones
Kyle Bosman
Michael Huber
Daniel Bloodworth
Bradley Ellis
Ben Moore
Ian Hinck
That's great news. I'm pretty sure if those guys get together whatever they do will be worth watching.
A new video-focused channel supported by Kickstarter or Patreon?
I'm happy to watch whatever Kyle Bosman does next.
Kyle was pretty much the only reason I visited that site. But I'll definitely give this new one a shot.
The guy is a perfect example of a lot of things wrong with professorial game criticism. His comments about TWD and Journey were just embarrassing and sounded like something you would expect from the COD section of gamefaqs. Not to mention the whole "If you give a popular game a bad score you failed" comment which is a whole other level of dumb. I hope he goes somewhere easily avoidable like Rev3 or Kotaku.
See ya wouldn't wanna be ya!
I know it's an awful thing to say about someone you don't know personally in the slightest... but this man is just awful.
Good riddance.
Now I can FINALLY enjoy their podcasts without some his dumb ass ruining the whole thing for me.
And there was much so-so rejoicing...
Think I stop listening to the GT podcast specifically because he often got things wrong, then stood by them.
...just because of his and Marcus different mindsets about games. You need people with different opinion, or everything become boring.