GameSpot

:GameSpot is not to be confused with GameStop, a retail gaming store.

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GameSpot is a website that was launched in June of 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. At launch, the site focused exclusively on PC games. Its sister site, videogamespot.com was launched in December of that year to cover console systems. In 1997, videogamespot became videogames.com for a short while, and by 1998 the PC and console sections were united under the GameSpot banner.

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Website - 1996 - PC

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GameSpot presents video game and PC software and hardware reviews, previews, downloads, news, and information and is usually regarded as one of the more prominent gaming websites on the Internet. After starting out on its own, GameSpot was later purchased by ZDNet. ZDNet was later purchased by CNET Networks, which currently owns GameSpot.

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Video game - PC - Internet - ZDNet - CNET Networks

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GameSpot is credited with being one of the most reliable and sometimes brutally honest resources for gaming information in the Internet, leading in reviews, previews, and news coverage. GameSpot also recently won 'Best Gaming Website' as chosen by the viewers in Spike TV's second Video Game Award Show.

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In April 2004, the website's message board community was merged with the community from GameFAQs (another CNET property), gaining the use of GameFAQs' FAQs, walkthroughs, and codes. The game-specific message boards were merged into GameFAQs also.

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April 2004 - Message board - GameFAQs - Walkthrough - Codes

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On October 3, 2005, GameSpot changed to a new look, similar to that used on TV.com, a sister site. The premise was to make the overall interface better and more efficient http://www.gamespot.com/features/6134513/index.html?tag=lastword_all_headline.

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October 3 - 2005 - TV.com

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