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Monday, Jul 21, 2008

Today, GiantBomb.com, the website from former GameSpot staffers Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis, Brad Shoemaker and Vinny Caravella has officially blown up.

I've been following their project through podcasts and E3 coverage and of course I signed up immediately to see what they had planned. If you want to add me, go to my profile and click 'add to network'. I won't be as lenient with friend requests however as I learned here it just becomes unmanageable. Besides, MasterChief49 and SoLiD_SnAkE1989 don't ever say a word.

Fear not though if you don't want to join Giant Bomb. I plan on remaining about as active on GameSpot as I am now. I'll keep commenting on blogs if I have something to say, I'll check the forums on a regular basis and I'll keep stealing videos from youtube and upload them here.

That's it, peace out. Lolcat comes later.

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Posted by BenderUnit22, 5:17am
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Joined this morning cause of your blog. Id SpinningBeat.
Posted Jul 21, 2008 9:15 am PT
Well I'm certainly not going.

I already have to remember my GS, yahoo, and PSN stuff I'm not adding another. Even if it would probably be the same information.
Posted Jul 21, 2008 9:17 am PT
sa10kun: I sent you a friend request (I think)

Vyse_Legends: Fair enough, see you here then

First impressions: Crazy site, very community-driven it seems. Certainly not a typical games site like GameSpot or IGN, also due to the small staff.
Posted Jul 21, 2008 9:56 am PT
wow, meh I rather stay in one place so gamespot would be good enough for me.
Posted Jul 21, 2008 10:20 am PT
Community-driven eh?

You shall see me, and I shall be hazelnutman
Posted Jul 21, 2008 11:37 am PT
How do I find/add you
Posted Jul 21, 2008 12:00 pm PT
Awesome, I like the design of the site, made a profile just now.
Posted Jul 21, 2008 12:23 pm PT
I sent you a request.
You have to go to the user's profile and click 'add to network'. As far as there being an easy way to find people other than looking through the entire member list, I have not found a way yet.
Posted Jul 21, 2008 12:53 pm PT
Funny how you're always my first friend for these sites
Posted Jul 21, 2008 12:55 pm PT
My pleasure
Posted Jul 21, 2008 1:09 pm PT
Forums are a little slow for me right now, so ill stick to GS for now. Feel free to add me same as i am on here, BladeOfHeaven
Posted Jul 21, 2008 1:14 pm PT
Bomb is suffering some serious technical issues, right now it keeps crashing no matter what link i click...... temporary, i hope
Posted Jul 21, 2008 1:55 pm PT
cool i might look it up
Posted Jul 21, 2008 3:50 pm PT
Posted Jul 21, 2008 6:46 pm PT
i'm zxv33 look me up
Posted Jul 21, 2008 8:30 pm PT
It's good to hear you'll be staying active hear, as I don't really want to manage two differnt gaming site profiles. This whole Giant Bomb thing worries me to be honest, do you like it better than GS?
Posted Jul 22, 2008 2:58 pm PT
It's hard to compare GiantBomb to gaming websites like GS and IGN, at least in its current state. Right now, I find their wikipedia approach a lot of fun, because the site allows users to edit and add information, create pages and upload screenshots.

On the other hand, navigation can be a bit of a pain and/or unintuitive for specific stuff, although I'm not sure which things are just bugs that need to be ironed out and which issues come from bad design choices.
Posted Jul 22, 2008 3:44 pm PT
Awesome site. Its like a game-wiki. U can even edit them! Sweet! And yet again. Ur my first added friend like in GS. LoL-cat~mania~
Posted Jul 23, 2008 6:34 am PT
Ahhh ur a bonified pirate, plundering what u want from gs and wondering to other places :p
Posted Aug 25, 2008 5:36 am PT
I started at Giant Bomb mostly because a few banned GSers have taken up there since they couldn't get priveledges reinstated here. It isn't as user friendly but the new look here is a bit more like GB and one reason I was not in favour of it.
Posted Sep 8, 2008 7:43 pm PT
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