Giant Bomb, the new gaming website led by former Gamespotters Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis, Brad Shoemaker and Vinny Caravella, launched last week, recruiting more than 10,000 Bombers to take advantage of the site's Wiki infrastructure and forums.
The new site represents a huge milestone for the quartet, especially Gerstmann, who last year was abruptly fired by Gamespot's parent, CNet, over what appeared to be an unfavorable review of Kane & Lynch, which was posted while the game was being heavily promoted on Gamespot.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Has another Xbox Overheated
Don't want to be in the vicinity when they Blow
However, I think their implementation at the moment is a little disorganized. Emphasis on just a little. I like the idea of creating a user generated(wiki) type of one stop source for information on games, new and old, but it seems some pages are not well thought out while others are really well organized.