Giant Bomb is a video game website and wiki that includes gaming news, reviews, commentary, and video, created by former GameSpot editors Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis in collaboration with Whiskey Media. After being fired from his position as Editorial Director of GameSpot, Gerstmann began working with a team of web engineers in Sausalito, California 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 includes Gerstmann and Davis, as well as Brad Shoemaker and Vinny Caravella, both also former GameSpot staff. Giant Bomb was unveiled on March 6, 2008 as a blog; the full site launched on July 21, 2008. The Giant Bomb office, known as the "Bomb Shelter", is located in Sausalito.

The Giant Bomb staff reports on video game news and reviews new releases. Their weekly podcast, the Giant Bombcast, is posted on Tuesdays and covers recent news and releases in the video game industry. Registered users are able to post on the site's message boards and maintain a blog, as well as contribute to the site's video game wiki.

Giant Bomb produces a number of regular video series, the longest-running being the Endurance Run, which ran for 155 episodes over six months. Released on weekdays, the series covered editors Gerstmann and Caravella's progress in the role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, which they played and recorded in real-time, accompanied by their own running commentary. Davis produces the weekly series This Ain't No Game, in which he reviews movies based on video games.

Jeff Gerstmann was fired from his position as the Editorial Director of GameSpot on November 28, 2007. Immediately after his termination, rumors began to circulate around the Internet that his dismissal was a result of external pressure from Eidos Interactive, the studio behind the video game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, a game Gerstmann had recently given a negative review. Both GameSpot and their parent company CNET Networks stated that his dismissal was unrelated to the review.

Ryan Davis announced his departure from GameSpot in February 2008, citing Gerstmann's firing as one of his reasons for leaving. On February 21, 2008 it was reported that Gerstmann and GameSpot founder, Vince Broady, were working on a new video game website that would "take on GameSpot". Gerstmann considered his options after his dismissal, eventually deciding he did not wish to work in game development or public relations.

He began to work with a team of engineers he knew and trusted to begin developing a new site. In the process of deciding on the name for the website, over seventy different domain names were considered. Gerstmann wanted the website name to be catchy and original, saying there were too many video game websites with the word "game" in them.

In addition to Davis, who recorded early episodes of the site's podcast, the Giant Bombcast with Gerstmann, former GameSpot editors Brad Shoemaker and Vinny Caravella joined the site in June of 2008. Giant Bomb started as a Wordpress blog, which opened on March 5, 2008. The full site launched on July 20, 2008.

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