Giant Bomb goes independent

At the opening of the month, things weren’t looking bully for gaming tract Giant Bomb aft its content was enactment connected hold amid reports of editorial interference from its genitor company, Fandom. Today, immoderate feel-good news: Giant Bomb announced it is present an independent, employee-owned entity.

“Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the tract to us,” the outlet wrote connected Bluesky yesterday evening. In a post connected its website astir the caller development, the Giant Bomb says it’s “not serving an algorithm oregon executives,” and that it aims “to thin into what’s ever made Giant Bomb special, and that’s the radical you spot and perceive connected our content, and our highly passionate community.”

The tract besides announced a new subscription model, which it says “will spell straight towards maintaining and increasing Giant Bomb and paying the good folks that you spot connected our programming week aft week.”

Games media has changed dramatically since Giant Bomb launched successful 2008, and our caller exemplary aims to germinate with the times. We privation radical to beryllium capable to spot our contented whether they’re capable to enactment america monetarily oregon not, truthful the ample bulk of what we enactment retired volition beryllium disposable for free. That’s however Fortnite works, right? The kids emotion Fortnite. Dan Ryckert tegument coming soon!

Giant Bomb sums up its caller monthly ($9.99 per month) and yearly ($99.99 per year) subscriptions:

If you motion up today, you’ll get ad-free RSS feeds for each of our podcasts and entree to premium-only Discord channels (like behind-the-scenes, Town Hall Q&As, and more). We are going to motorboat precise elemental and we volition turn and set from there. This each yet came unneurotic virtually hours ago, and we couldn’t adjacent update the connection connected the motion up leafage yet. The perks are a small antithetic from what’s listed there, truthful If you person immoderate questions, scope retired connected societal and we’ll get backmost to you arsenic soon arsenic we can. For example, our Discord verification process mightiness beryllium slow, truthful carnivore with america for now!

The quality feels similar a pleasant combo-breaker aft the May 1st one-two punch quality of Giant Bomb’s contented intermission and Verge genitor institution Vox Media’s sale of gaming tract Polygon to Valnet, a media institution that’s suing TheWrap implicit its damning report of accusations of “almost sweatshop-level” moving conditions.