Giant Bomb Officially Launches

From Giant Bomb Co-Founder Jeff Gerstmann...

"Hello and welcome to Giant Bomb. You've come at a very exciting time, as we've just launched the site. I'm trying to think of ways that I could be more excited, and I'm coming up short. We here at Giant Bomb and Whiskey Media have been hard at work on this site for some time now, and we're happy to finally share all this stuff with you.

So what, exactly, is Giant Bomb? That's a good question. it's a lot of things..."

[SixTwoTwo]

The site rocks

[kwicksandz]

How is the launch of a games site by a bunch of respected internet celebs not news that gamers would want to know.

Im signing up to their community. The bombcast is awesome and jeff and ryan have good chemistry on air. I wish them the best.

[Superfragilistic]

I've been following this site for a long while now and whilst I expected great things, the site has far exceeded my expectations.

The community features and databases are amazing and completely unprecedented in scope within gaming journalism.

Big thumbs up to Gerstmann and the Giant Bomb gang who had the cojones to pursue a new venture which has already rewritten the rule of gaming journalism in it's short life. The wiki editor and databases are phenomenal.

:)

[JoyiusHammer]

When did N4G become a site advertisement ?

[solidsnakus]

its always been.

[RandalCG]

Can we stop posting this sh!t already ? I mean how many times do we have to put up with hearing that Giant Bomb did this, did that. Quit making this crap an advertisement

[Tinman1]

Now we have to see another advertisement for Giant Bomb and their local fanboy Superfrag/ Marketing Manager.

Seriously guys...save me the trouble

[Superfragilistic]

First off I'm neither... although if a position is vacant feel free to contact me (wink, wink, nudge, nudge...)!

I'm just praising the site for it's innovations over others. It's essentially taken Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and IGN and created a c*cktail of gaming goodness! (how was that? do I get the job?)

An advertisement? Yep, but so is every other piece of news labeled with a site's name.

News worthy? Yep, Jeff Gertsmann casts a significant shadow over gaming journalism in general, so anything he does within that field is relevant. Add the fact that the site is introducing a whole set of features that other gaming site's have not implemented on such a fully featured scope... And it's "News 4 Gamers" everywhere that there's a new place in town that's worth "the trouble" of checking out!

(How was that? Did I get the job? Or just another disagree? lol)

Peace. :)

[Tinman1]

Bland efforts, bland site, awesome profile system though.

Then again---I might as well just go to 1UP. Seriously.

[titntin]

I'm sure the site is fine, but posting the launch of such as a site as news is very tenuous and I don't believe its newsworthy.

by all means post links to the story's it publishes, but I don't want N$G clogged up with news of site launch. theres enough dreadful submissions getting through the system as it is without allowing blatant advertising.

Regrettably I shall be reporting it, as I don't believe this is a valid story.

[killax3563]

I reported this story as well.

[Meresin]

Oh, cool. Didn't realize that they had launched. I really love their podcast and their videos...Kinda nice to hear journalists talking about GAMES without poisoning the discussion with platform hate.

Now that I look at it, the site is quite impressive, too. :)

[Delive]

Not sure if Gamespot encouraged this or if his work just never was good to me. Either way, I have no need to go to this site. I don't feel I'm missing anything.

[Bnet343]

I think I might sign up just for the fact that it might be the place where fanboys will not mess with and Jeff Gerstmann has a good view on games. I remember being a hardcore Gamespot member for 2 years and left.

[Jackel2072]

It really is a awesome site!