And in related news pigs flew this morning. It is the stuff of legend in the video game industry, Jeff Gerstmann was notoriously fired from GameSpot in 2007, allegedly for giving a less than stellar review to one of the sites main advertisers, Kane and Lynch of all things. He and several other key players from GameSpot then went on to form Giantbomb.com, the world’s largest editable video game database. In addition to being a giant video game wiki, they also publish reviews and my personal favorite quick looks, where they just play the game uninterrupted for around an hour and give you their impressions of it.

This site now however has worked out a deal with CBS Interactive, GameSpot’s parent company, to become part of that family of websites. This means the two sites will now be working together, in fact even in the same building.

Naturally I think this would worry any fan of the website, but the guys over there seem to feel like it’s going to be a positive turn for them, and to quote Gerstmann’s twitter, “the people at GameSpot are ready to party.”

This could either be an amazing thing for Giant Bomb and will give them resources to do even more amazing things than they already have, or this could be what that whole Mayan calendar thing was talking about. Only time will tell for certain but there is definitely one positive from all of this, Gerstmann will finally be able to comment on the actual reason he was fired from GameSpot in the first place. I suspect it was actually because he stole somebody’s lunch but expect an update here when he either confirms or denies that fact later today.