The brand new Giant Bomb site

Websites. Still a thing!

The marque caller giantbomb.com is close astir the country and here’s everything you request to cognize astir its launch, immoderate important information, and a small spot of expectation-setting arsenic well.

We’re inactive connected way to flip the power connected the caller tract Saturday, December 6, 2025. Doing truthful volition necessitate that we frost the bequest tract for the full week starring up to that date, Monday December 1 done Friday December 5.

So what does that mean? It means we’ll request to temporarily unopen disconnected immoderate and each idiosyncratic editing truthful that we tin instrumentality a “snapshot” of that information and transportation it to the caller site. We’ll inactive beryllium producing contented that week.

This is besides the absolute precise past chance you’ll person to opt successful to the tract terms, thing that is indispensable to guarantee the quality to negociate your idiosyncratic relationship connected the caller site. If you don’t opt in, the information won’t spell away, you’ll conscionable suffer the quality to negociate it.

(Feeling paranoid? Click present https://www.giantbomb.com/account/tos-confirmation/ and if you're navigated to the homepage, you are coming with america to the caller site.)

Now let’s speech a small spot astir expectation-setting for the caller site. It whitethorn beryllium a small bumpy retired of the gate. This task has been a colossal undertaking, and portion we’re precise blessed with however things person gone up til now, we conscionable privation to hole everyone for immoderate imaginable wonkiness present and there.

Here’s what volition beryllium acceptable astatine launch:

• Videos and customized video player, including “watch later” playlists
• Podcasts and audio player, positive “listen later” playlists
• Live watercourse and chat
• Full backmost catalog of videos, podcasts, and shows
• Premium RSS Feeds
• Improved watercourse calendar
• Improved premium sub management
• User Articles (Previously Blogs)
• User Reviews (View-only to start)
• User Lists (View-only to start)
• New The Bomb 12 features

What won’t beryllium ready

• User Review editing/creation
• User List editing/creation
• Forum email notifications (and each notifications from the tract successful general)
• Downloading Video / Audio straight from the tract (this volition beryllium coming to premium members soon)

Limited functionality

• The Wiki
  • Many pages volition beryllium viewable, but editing and instauration volition instrumentality immoderate clip arsenic the assemblage works unneurotic connected these features.
  • All of the information volition beryllium there
  • Improved functionality and features to gradually amended successful the coming months
  • The wiki is simply a assemblage effort and we request your programming assistance - caput to https://bombcast.com/wiki for much accusation connected however to contribute.

What is recently gated?

• User Review and Article creation - each bequest contented volition beryllium disposable and viewable, but creating caller ones volition beryllium Premium features.
  • This helps america trim aboveground country of liability for moving a tract with idiosyncratic generated contented (just spot america connected this one)
  • To beryllium clear: All old/legacy contented volition transportation to the caller site, but lone creating NEW contented volition beryllium gated
• Downloading Video/Audio straight from the site

Ads

Non-premium members person ever been served ads connected giantbomb.com and we’re going to request to proceed doing this to service arsenic a mechanics for support. We’ve reworked however ads show connected the caller tract and we deliberation it presents successful a overmuch amended way. We besides wanted to beryllium capable to connection definite kinds of bespoke advertisement insertion for our partners who privation that benignant of integration, truthful we’ve been precise considerate however that could perchance interaction the site-viewing experience. The quality of this though is that we determine who we privation to enactment with, and you’ll ne'er spot takeover campaigns that we didn’t archetypal motion disconnected on. Separately, support successful caput that Google AdSense is simply a dynamic advertisement network, truthful we don’t power what shows up successful those modules– your browsing past does.

More to travel soon. Thanks!