After over a decade of corporate ownership, Giant Bomb will now be truly independent. We don’t work for a corporation anymore, we work for you (please let us know where to send our PTO requests and expense reports). We're not serving an algorithm or executives, we're serving you, the audience. We want to lean into what’s always made Giant Bomb special, and that’s the people you see and hear on our content, and our extremely passionate community.
Here comes the part that you’re probably expecting!
We want your money. We need your money. Give us money. But for real, this is a big risk we’re taking and keeping Giant Bomb alive is going to rely on the support of the community. As an independent entity now, we can say that all support that we receive from you will go directly towards maintaining and growing Giant Bomb and paying the fine folks that you see on our programming week after week.
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’re able to support us monetarily or not, so the large majority of what we put out will be available for free. That’s how Fortnite works, right? The kids love Fortnite. Dan Ryckert skin coming soon!
If you sign up today, you’ll 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.
A lot of work is happening behind the scenes and we're moving very fast on this so we can put together this new, independent Giant Bomb. For now, our premium options will be a $9.99 monthly subscription or you can save $20 by signing up for a year at $99.99. Since it bears repeating (and you’ll hear this over and over again from us), all of your support goes straight to Giant Bomb and its lovely personalities.
Can't wait to build this bomb with you (again).
Discord instructions:
To link your GB Premium account in order to get access to the Premium channels, use the command /premium
connectin the #bot-linkdump channel, and the Premium Bot will guide you along. Thank you to Howling Techie for creating and maintaining the bot! If you receive an invalid code error while following the bot steps, let us know in this channel and a mod will refresh your code for you.
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