All right, so real quick: a couple posts ago I mentioned something about Jeff Gerstmann and eluded to his firing from Gamespot. Being a big fan of him and his work, I’ve been following along with what he’s been up to recently on his and other former Gamespot employees’ blogs. In the last couple weeks especially, he and Ryan Davis have been dropping some hints about a new project that they’re working on, and today they finally announced what it was. Introducing Giant Bomb (dot com). It’s still in the rudimentary stages, but what they’ve shown and eluded to here looks awesome, and really seems to be what fans of Jeff and of what Gamespot used to be are looking for: professional game reviews served with healthy portions of video content, and a super off the wall podcast that talks about energy drinks and action movies in addition to the standard video game fare. Hopefully they’ll be able to secure enough advertising dollars (maybe not right at the outset, but eventually) to stay afloat. This is clearly the place where Jeff’s experience with doing the same thing 11 years ago at Gamespot will come in handy.

In short, I am 10 kinds of excited about this.