# Giant Bomb outage reports and status

Canonical page: https://iszdown.com/now/giant-bomb

Status: Current availability unconfirmed

24-hour window (UTC): 2026-10-18T06:40:00.000Z to 2026-10-19T06:40:00.000Z

Recorded outage reports in this window: 0

Last successful estimated-activity check: No usable observation available

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.

## How to interpret this page

Estimated down reports are based on US Google Trends problem-intent searches. Values are relative activity from 0 to 100, not counts of submitted reports. The HTML chart averages samples into ten-minute intervals. Partial samples are excluded and missing samples are not invented.

Recorded outage reports and estimated activity are separate signals. Neither confirms that every user is affected. Missing or stale data does not establish that a service is working.

Methodology: https://iszdown.com/methodology

## Citation

Cite [Giant Bomb on Iszdown](https://iszdown.com/now/giant-bomb), include your access time and the observation time above, and qualify estimated activity as an estimate. Recheck before describing current status. Iszdown is independent of the monitored provider.

## Estimated activity samples

No usable Google Trends samples are available for this service in this window.

## Evidence and recovery

Current availability unconfirmed. More recent independent evidence is needed.

No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.

## Website measurements

Successful sampled checks (24h): Unknown (0/0). Restricted checks: 3. Median response: Unknown ms. P95 response: Unknown ms.

These are sampled public website checks from one US server, not continuous uptime or authenticated app/API tests. Missing data stays unknown.


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