Giant Bomb Bought By CBS (Update)

Twitter has been blowing up today as members of the Giant Bomb crew along with various members of parent company, Whiskey Media, announced that Giant Bomb has been bought by CBS. As of this writing, no word has been disclosed as to how much the the acquisition for Giant Bomb was worth, but what we do know is that CBS is also home of Gamespot (insert ominous sound here).

Whiskey Media, however, is under going slight changes to fill-in some obvious gaps with the Tested crew working with the Mythbusters. Meanwhile, Alex Navarro of Gamespot fame turned Harmonix PR turned Giantbomb contributor and Whiskey Media affiliate will also be leaving Screened.com to join Giant Bomb over at CBS. More news of the acquisition is detailed in full from Jeff Gertsmann and company in their live stream that happened not that long ago.

Watch live video from Giant Bomb Live on Justin.tv

More details as they unfold.

UPDATE FROM DEADMAN:

Last night after the earth-shattering reveal from the Giant Bomb crew, Jeff Gerstmann came on to On the Spot, GameSpot’s live show, to talk to John Davison about the acquisition of Giant Bomb and Comic Vine, what we can expect for the future of the sites and more importantly the truth behind the whole Gerstmann debacle from 2007.