Giant Bomb, GameSpot, MetaCritic and more sold to fan Wiki

They’ve even got stuff like the playthrough all of Half Life series picking up exactly where it left off.

I know we’ve had a few of these creative team leaves and sets up its own thing incidents but this must be one of the first bigger ones where the team have just lifted all of their content wholesale and continued their exact same set of series under new branding.

I do note that they say don’t blame or hate on the writers who stayed at the Escapist, but consider who has moved and how much they’ve taken with them I’m amazed there’s anything left for those writers to do. Its usually the splitters who need to regroup and come up with new ideas not the original host.

This second wind project sure was setup quickly. Got to be thinking there was some behind the scenes fuckery going on and they were already developing a contingency plan for their escape.

That aside, good to see that the content can continue under the old fully Rambo as I liked ZP. Must say, the number of patreons they have at the end of the video must give them some hope for future content as well.

Only Dan of the original/Golden era is at GB now and even he left for a couple years.

Bit strange they got rid of Jess/Jason only to have Mike Minotti more or less become a full time member right away.

Nothing.

Can’t help but feel like there was a serious falling out, it’s been too long.

Jeff is always happier when he is by himself as he doesn't need to allow anyone else a chance to talk that way.

Jeff always needed someone like Brad or Vinny to bounce off. And yeah the ranking of energy drinks basically killed the podcast off for me. Guy would spend 15 minutes talking about it before even taking a sip at times.

The OG team of giant bomb was excellent really started the downhill trend when Ryan died. They made the podcast, now its just a name (saw what Dan looks like now a bit charles bronson there.....)

No matter who was working at GB I enjoyed it, it's losing the studio that's made me drop off.

I need to cut at least one weekly podcast because I’m not getting through them all- and I think it’s between Giant Bomb and Nextlander to be honest. Gerstmann does sometimes wander off topic, and I agree that the energy drink ratings miss more than they hit, but he often finds an angle on a story that neither GB nor Nextlander pick up on.

My surprise top podcast at the moment is NoClip though. Danny, Frank and Jeremy have a really good dynamic, and they have great insights into the process of making games, and the art and vision behind them.

I don’t watch every episode anymore (true of most things) but I do still enjoy Jimquisition. It is a shame they don’t put videos like Jimpressions on youtube anymore though.

Ben Pack is back for this week with Jeff.

And quickly became one of Jeff's most listened to Podcasts from the looks of it. He really should try to have a 2nd person more often.
Also hinted at ages ago trying to carry on Ranking of Fighters with Ben and Jason but nothing yet.