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At the beginning of the month, things weren\u2019t looking good for gaming site Giant Bomb<\/em> after its content was put on hold<\/a> amid reports of editorial interference from its parent company, Fandom. Today, some feel-good news: Giant Bomb<\/em> announced<\/a> it is now an independent, employee-owned entity.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us,\u201d the outlet wrote on Bluesky yesterday evening. In a post on its website<\/a> about the new development, the Giant Bomb<\/em> says it\u2019s \u201cnot serving an algorithm or executives,\u201d and that it aims \u201cto lean into what\u2019s always made Giant Bomb special, and that\u2019s the people you see and hear on our content, and our extremely passionate community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We’ll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast.For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com\/join<\/p>\n

\u2014 Giant Bomb (@giantbomb.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-05-10T23:12:29.217Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The site also announced a new subscription model<\/a>, which it says \u201cwill go directly towards maintaining and growing Giant Bomb and paying the fine folks that you see on our programming week after week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Games media has changed dramatically since Giant Bomb launched in 2008, and our new model aims to evolve with the times. We want people to be able to see our content whether they\u2019re able to support us monetarily or not, so the large majority of what we put out will be available for free. That\u2019s how Fortnite works, right? The kids love Fortnite. Dan Ryckert skin coming soon!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Giant Bomb<\/em> sums up its new monthly ($9.99 per month) and annual ($99.99 per year) subscriptions:<\/p>\n

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If you sign up today, you\u2019ll get ad-free RSS feeds for all of our podcasts and access to premium-only Discord channels (like behind-the-scenes, Town Hall Q&As, and more). We are going to launch very simple and we will grow and adjust from there. This all finally came together literally hours ago, and we couldn\u2019t even update the language on the sign up page yet. The perks are a little different from what\u2019s listed there, so If you have any questions, reach out on social and we\u2019ll get back to you as soon as we can. For example, our Discord verification process might be slow, so bear with us for now! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The news feels like a pleasant combo-breaker after the May 1st one-two punch news of Giant Bomb<\/em>\u2019s content pause and Verge<\/em> parent company Vox Media\u2019s sale of gaming site Polygon <\/em>to Valnet<\/a>, a media company that\u2019s suing TheWrap<\/em><\/a> over its damning report<\/a> of accusations of \u201calmost sweatshop-level\u201d working conditions. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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