153: Giant Bomb Co-Founder Meets Giant Bomb Co-Owner

The Jeff Gerstmann Show - A Podcast About Video Games

Jeff Gerstmann

Technology, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 194 minutes

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Doom is out, Capcom’s selling a lot of digital games, and Giant Bomb Co-Owner Dan Ryckert joins us to discuss Death Stranding 2, the passing of ECW icon Sabu, anime podcasts, and the what it’s like to own a video game website in the year 2025. Take advantage of Ridge’s once-a-year Memorial Day Sale and get UP TO 40% Offright now by going to https://www.Ridge.com/JEFFG #Ridgepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Hey, what's happening everybody. Welcome to the program.
0:34.7	It's the Jeff Gersman show.
0:36.4	Today is Tuesday, May 13th,
0:41.0	2025, and we are here ready to talk about the world of video games and all of the
0:50.2	insane truly, truly wild happenings surrounding them naturally.
1:01.8	Hi, everyone. Welcome to the program. We'll be joined later on by one Dan Reichert, who is
1:09.6	renowned author, wrestling.
1:13.1	He has a, you know, of course, of course everyone knows about his background in professional wrestling,
1:20.3	um, entrepreneur, uh, foodie.
1:26.1	Uh, he'll be on later on in the program to, you know, discuss all that.
1:33.5	And then some.
1:37.2	Doom the Dark Ages.
1:38.3	We are in the weird, we're in the weird middle ground right now where that game is out if you want to pay a lot of money for it, but not out if you want to wait for it on Game Pass. My understanding is that you can if you pay the difference and buy the premium DLC or whatever, that will let you play the game pass version early so you could theoretically play it for 30 bucks. They ran into a thing where the game launched on Steam yesterday
2:03.9	and for a period of time,
2:06.8	no one could play.
2:09.1	Like it wasn't loading right or something.
2:10.7	There was just, you know, drama.
2:14.1	I don't know, man.
2:15.0	This isn't relatively, this isn't new technology, right?
2:17.8	The whole early access,
2:21.8	you know,
2:22.6	but like,
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