Is Giant Bomb Down?
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Giant Bomb is an American video game website and wiki that includes personality-driven gaming videos, commentary, news and reviews, created by former GameSpot editors Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis
https://giantbomb.com
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Estimated down reports for Giant Bomb — last 24 hours
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No user-submitted outage reports in the last 24 hours.
Giant Bomb website uptime and response time
Automated access restricted HTTP 403. Last checked 2026-10-19 05:40:03 UTC.
Checked address: https://giantbomb.com/
DNS lookup: 5 ms · TCP connection: 5 ms · TLS handshake: 6 ms. Certificate expires 2026-12-22; trusted connection: yes.
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Successful website checks (24h)
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Median response time
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95th percentile response time
0 failed checks; 3 restricted checks. Restricted checks are excluded from the success rate. Gaps are unknown. Response time measures receipt of HTTP headers, not full page load. Checks run from one US monitoring server and do not verify sign-in, API, or app features. These sampled results are separate from down reports and Google activity.
Evidence behind the status
Current availability unconfirmed. More recent independent evidence is needed.
- Official provider feed: not available for this service.
- Direct website measurements: 3 checks in the last 24 hours.
- Google Trends estimate: 0 samples; last checked Unknown.
- Autocomplete: 0 recent query observations. Suggestions are not individual down reports.
Sources measure different things. A reachable homepage can coexist with login or API failures. Missing evidence stays unknown.
Official component status
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Official incident timeline
No product-matched incidents are available in the collected provider history. This does not prove that no incident occurred.
Recovery tracker
No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.
0 consecutive successful checks within the last 30 minutes. These checks measure the public website; they cannot establish recovery of every feature.
Slowdown detection
More successful checks are needed to establish a response-time baseline.
Recent median: unknown · Earlier median: unknown. Flags require at least 3 recent and 5 earlier checks, more than twice the baseline, and at least 500 ms extra latency. Slowness alone does not identify server load as the cause.
Emerging down-report signals
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Infrastructure incident context
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More about Giant Bomb service
Giant Bomb is an American video game website and wiki that includes personality-driven gaming videos, commentary, news and reviews, created by former GameSpot editors Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis. The website was voted by Time magazine as one of the Top 50 websites of 2011. Originally part of Whiskey Media, the website was acquired by CBS Interactive in March 2012 before being sold to Red Ventures in 2020. After being terminated from his position as editorial director of GameSpot, Gerstmann began working with a team of web engineers to create a new video game website. His intent was to create "a fun video game website" that would not heavily cover the business side of the game industry. The site's core editorial staff consisted primarily of former GameSpot editors. Giant Bomb was unveiled on March 6, 2008, as a blog; the full site launched on July 21, 2008. The Giant Bomb offices were originally in Sausalito, California, and as of June 26, 2010, they were moved to San Francisco.
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