The game industry is dealing with the unexpected death of Ryan Davis, co-founder of popular game site Giant Bomb. Davis’ death came just days after his wedding. While no cause of death has been revealed, the tragedy of the timing around it has strongly impacted the game community, many of whom knew Davis through his years of work reporting on games. He had a large online presence because of the Giant Bombcast video he hosted every week to review games and discuss industry news.
Davis was an editor at GameSpot when he and colleague Jeff Gerstmann left the game site under very public circumstances. They eventually co-founded Giant Bomb in 2008. The site grew rapidly. In 2011, Time magazine named it one of the top 50 websites of the year. Giant Bomb was acquired by CBS Interactive in 2012.
Tributes to Davis can be found on Kotaku, Polygon, and Giant Bomb.
