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    Posted on July 23rd, 2008

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    Giant Bomb explodes

    Kind of. Ex Gamespot employee Jeff Gerstmann has launched his new site GiantBomb.I’s been ran in blog format for the last few months with a heavy emphasis on reviews but has now morphed into a more feature rich site with forums and the like. Joystiq caught up with co-founder Ryan Davis about the launch as well [...]

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    Posted on July 15th, 2008

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    No filming allowed at SEGA E3 booth!

    Gamespot just got shut down while filming their live floor show nearby the Sega booth. While trying to film someone playing Samba De Amigo a SEGA rep had a small panic and told them to stop filming. A word of warning then for anyone reading this who is at the show. DON’T FILM AT THE SEGA [...]

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    Posted on July 15th, 2008

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    IGN & Gamespot live floor shows beginning shortly

    IGN and Gamespot are just about to kick off their monstor E3 2008 live video coverage at 22:00 BST. Tonight IGN will be giving live demos of Resident Evil 5, Fallout 3, Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway and Killzone 2. We have no idea what Gamepsot will be showing as with five minutes to go [...]

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    Posted on July 15th, 2008

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    Dancing master chief shows up at Microsoft e3 2008 press conference

    During the live performance by Duffy while showing off the new game Lips, Gamespot cut the live feed (assuming you could get to it in the first place) and instead showed a three minute video of a dancing master chief. We presume this was due to copyright reasons but IGN did not cut away when the performance [...]

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    Posted on July 14th, 2008

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    Gamespot collapses under E3 traffic load

    Gamespot.com fell over shortly before the Microsoft press conference and has yet to resurface as of 20:38 BST 14/7/08. Visitors to the site were greeted with a Internet Explorer error saying the it was currently unavailable. This will not have pleased many premium subscribers who would have paid a subscription to watch a higher quality feed and allow [...]

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    Posted on July 14th, 2008

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    New squad based Halo game set to be announced?

    Gamespot is running a rumour story that Microsoft will announce a new squad based Halo FPS game during it’s E3 press conference later today.Their source is said to be someone “with first-hand knowledge of Bungie’s development”.
     
    Gamespot say the new game “will be a spin-off that resembles a cross between Ghost Recon and Gears of War. It [...]

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    Posted on July 5th, 2008

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    GameSpot names Jeff Gerstmann in E3 2008 coverage???

    GameSpot’s E3 2008 live coverage page lists Jeff Gerstmann as well as other ex staff members as presenting their E3 2008 coverage live from “Santa Monica”. Clearly the page is a place holder using graphics and text from last years show, but still it amused us slightly as other than the reference to Santa Monica in [...]

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    Posted on March 7th, 2008

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    Jeff Gerstmann’s makes a re-appearance with new website

    Jeff Gerstmann, well known in the gaming community for his long spell working on Gamespot has begun the process of setting up  a new website GiantBomb. Following his controversial exit from the gamespot team, Jeff has been lying low in the gaming scene during the last few months. Obviously he has been busy hatching a plan [...]