Reception
In voting the website into its Top 50 websites of 2011, Harry McCracken of Time Magazine described Giant Bomb as having, "news, reviews and video — all looser, funnier and more opinionated than much of the stuff on game sites owned by larger media companies." Complex magazine shared the sentiment when adding Gerstmann into their top 25 celebrities of video games, mentioning Giant Bomb as "one of the best around." In January 2012 it was announced that Vox Media had hired several names from gaming journalism to launch Polygon including Editor-in-Chiefs of Joystiq and Kotaku, Chris Grant and Brian Crecente. When asked why he thought there was room for another video game website, Grant said that, "The only site I would really look at and say they have enviable technology is Giant Bomb; nothing else out there has anything that's really attractive." Review aggregate scores website Metacritic acknowledges Giant Bomb as a regarded website in video gaming, including it in its group of publications used to make its aggregate scores. Initially plans were made to split the Giant Bombcast in half with non-paid subscription members only listening to the second half a week later after its release. This decision was reversed after fans cited an article by Giant Bomb designer Dave Snider which had said that no content that was currently free would become paid content.
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