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Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Just announced on twitch.tv/pax, live from PAX East. The reaction was so negative to what happened with Giant Bomb that Fandom sold to Jeff Grubb and Jeff Bakalar. It sounds like this deal closed yesterday. Along with those two, Dan Ryckert and Jan Ochoa are now co-owners. Mike Minotti was informed of this deal this morning, and he will be the fifth co-owner when he comes back from Disney World. Blight Club and Grubb's morning news show sound like they are returning this coming week. This PAX panel is officially episode #889 of the Giant Bombcast.

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[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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Disgusting. I don't demand or expect them to rewrite their website, but those people are nowhere near even "neutral" status, as long as they behave this way.

Certainly not allies or friends I would support.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The sale is also hours old, and the new owners are all out of town.

[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

Ok, I'm looking forward to them changing this practice then. We'll see if they do.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They literally just split off of Fandom. There has been no time to do anything about this.

[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

Ok, I'm looking forward to them changing this practice then. We'll see if they do.