Key facts
- Type of site
- Streaming media Video , Video game wiki website , video game journalism , Internet community , comedy
- Predecessor
- GameSpot
- Owners
- Jeffinitely, LLC (2025–present), Fandom Inc. (2022–2025), Red Ventures (2020–2022), CBS Interactive (2012–2020), Whiskey Media (2008–2012)
- Created by
- Jeff Gerstmann , Dave Snider, Whiskey Media
- Founder s
- Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis , Dave Snider
- Url
- www .giantbomb .com
- Commercial
- Yes
- Registration
- Optional (free and paid)
- Launched
- March 6, 2008 ; 18 years ago ( 2008-03-06 ) (blog), July 21, 2008 ( 2008-07-21 ) (full website)
- Current status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.giantbomb.com
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- inception
- 2008-03-06
- social media followers
- 245000
- Alexa rank
- 14656
- terms of service URL
- www.redventures.com/legal/cmg-terms-of-use
- privacy policy URL
- www.redventures.com/legal/privacy-policy
- title
- Giant Bomb
- web feed URL
- www.giantbomb.com/feeds/new_releases
- API endpoint URL
- www.giantbomb.com/api
- number of viewers/listeners
- 210467228
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Giant Bomb is an American video game website and wiki that includes personality-driven gaming videos, commentary, news and reviews, created by former GameSpot editors Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis. The website was voted by Time magazine as one of the Top 50 websites of 2011. In 2018 Variety Magazine said that Giant Bomb had "redefined what it meant to be a video game website." Originally part of Whiskey Media, the website was acquired by CBS Interactive in March 2012 before being sold to Red Ventures in 2020, then to Fandom in 2022. As of 2025, the site is independently owned by Jeffinitely, LLC, a company formed by Giant Bomb's co-owners Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb.
After being terminated from his position as editorial director of GameSpot, Gerstmann began working with a team of web engineers to create a new video game website. His intent was to create "a fun video game website" that would not heavily cover the business side of the game industry. The site's core editorial staff consisted primarily of former GameSpot editors. Giant Bomb was unveiled on March 6, 2008, as a blog; the full site launched on July 21, 2008. The Giant Bomb offices were originally in Sausalito, California, before moving to San Francisco in 2010, with a second office established in New York City in 2014. Following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, both offices were closed and the website permanently shifted to a remote work environment.