If this was 15 years ago, I would say that the closest thing to "sports" a game journo would ever get is playing Dance Dance Revolution. Nowadays it's only due to living in a city that has a sportsball team.
At the bare minimum, you could get all of the GB staff into a single studio routinely - which was probably the major "pain" point, that without a studio GB was just another Twitch Team with less cohesion. On top of their inability to retain people (which killed the brand) - not having a studio, or even real production, basically killed everything Jeff built as he slowly watched.
It depends on the interview and the context.
I think if he leaves gaming behind, he'll go to talking about rap and hip hop music, or wrestling.
I think they're trying to do the whole sarcastic, petty complaints shtick that used to popular 10-15 years ago, but they suck at it.
When it comes to in person, impromptu interviews, their E3 stuff was great. Having Cowboy talk about the specific headaches of coding a single scripted sequence in Uncharted, or that one guy that worked in EA and talked about how the company works day-to-day (and how they released all the EA classics on gog basically when no one was paying attention).
I call bullshit on Gerstmann for that. Yes, that is what he said on his podcast, but the reality was since 2014 every single year he bitched and moaned about packing up and going out for e3/pax coverage. There has been multiple times where he advocated for "just watching each individual companies streams" instead of physically going to E3. He complained about PAX because it was open to the public. He argued with Dan about how shitty E3 was, how its irrelevant, and how it was no longer fun. There has been so many times he made the Bombcast such a drag to listen to because of his negative attitude towards everything. I think his podcast was a total cope for him being fired. "OH GEE GUYS I WANTED TO DO MORE JOURNALISM AND GO TO TRADE SHOWS BUT THE SUITS WOULD NOT LET ME". The guy basically said Nintendo was doing the right thing for doing their Direct Shows and bailing on E3 and making his life easier for it.
Yeah, I didn't quite get his whole "I really wanted to get out there guys" and "I am really afraid of Covid and my children's well being". It just does not make a whole lot of sense. My speculation is either Jeff was let go, or he left because of Dan being rehired with more creative control. I sense there was some resentment towards Dan's popularity. There is no doubt that Dan's ideas were the draw of the site (Mario Party Party, Demo Derby, Metal Gear Scanlon, This is The Run). Since neither him nor Vinny could really reign in him anymore, my presumption is he would rather leave than be subordinate to Dan.
Dude sounds like one of those sand niggers who is all like: "She must wear the burka, if I see her leg, she is forcing me to rape her."
I'm surprised it was Vinny, I know Jeff and Brad are miserable joyless fucks and Alex is a personality black hole but I'm surprised Vinny is anti-fun
That will last until the next twitter approved "serious thing in video games" happens.
Shamus going down surprised me even though I knew his kidneys were failing. How is it that even in his 50s or so this still felt too soon?
Kidney failure is a real crappy way to go but dying a few years after diagnosis without a transplant isn't uncommon. I was suprised he was on dialysis in the first place.
What killed me was how unprepared they often seemed to be when doing a stream or recording something. People put in more effort when appearing on yet another pointless Teams meeting.
