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Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Just announced on twitch.tv/pax, live from PAX East. The reaction was so negative to what happened with Giant Bomb that Fandom sold to Jeff Grubb and Jeff Bakalar. It sounds like this deal closed yesterday. Along with those two, Dan Ryckert and Jan Ochoa are now co-owners. Mike Minotti was informed of this deal this morning, and he will be the fifth co-owner when he comes back from Disney World. Blight Club and Grubb's morning news show sound like they are returning this coming week. This PAX panel is officially episode #889 of the Giant Bombcast.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"to what happened with Giant Bomb"

Boy I sure am glad that seemingly-crucial part of context was included in this post.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A boss several steps up the chain decided to make changes to how the site operates that were incompatible with what Giant Bomb is, namely that they wanted an advertiser-friendly, "brand-safe" image with less swearing and streaming. This led to a number of key people leaving, at which point, the name Giant Bomb isn't really worth anything to anyone. It's been covered in tons of gaming circles this week alongside the similar destruction of Polygon, so I didn't think it needed to be stated yet again as I was summarizing bullet points from a live stream.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It’s been covered in tons of gaming circles this week alongside the similar destruction of Polygon, so I didn’t think it needed to be stated yet again as I was summarizing bullet points from a live stream.

Very fair and valid.

I will just gently state that this is c/games, not c/gamingcircles and thus many of us are very interested in video games but not necessarily the industries on the periphery thereof, so what seems "yet again" to you might be a first time for others.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Very true. Though at the same time, you probably could have found that context you were looking for by typing a couple of those words into your favorite search engine or Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean sure but we could all just do that with everything and we wouldn’t need Lemmy at all lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I agree with you, but I do believe that is an unrealistic expectation for interacting with casual lemmy posts when a custom of including relevant context exists. But all good, I'll admit my lack of awareness on this one; you did nothing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

RIP Escapist Magazine

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Second Wind is filling the "Yahtzee rants about a game that I'm unlikely to play anytime soon" hole nicely.