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MinnMax Interview - Dan Ryckert On The Future Of Giant Bomb
🕑 Added 2022-06-14 15:15:00 +0000 UTCMinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews the new creative director of Giant Bomb Dan Ryckert about leaving his job producing podcasts at the WWE and returning to the beloved game site with an exciting new team. They talk about the evolution of Dan's streams on Twitch, their time at Game Informer together, and why a corporation as big as the WWE is so challenging to work for.
Watch and share the video version of this interview here - https://youtu.be/eXttpbdcYE4
Links for things discussed in the interview...
https://www.patreon.com/jeffgerstmann
https://www.patreon.com/nextlander
https://www.twitch.tv/danryckert
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:50 - Dan Ryckert on the importance of a creative outlet
00:13:22 - How and why Dan returned to Giant Bomb
00:19:14 - Announcing the new Giant Bomb team
00:29:12 - Dan’s “Creative Director” title at Giant Bomb
00:33:18 - Following the fun in games coverage
00:41:23 - The role of Fire Escape now
00:43:31 - Creating Game Informer videos
00:46:28 - Lessons from Dan’s Twitch streams
00:50:08 - Why working for WWE was frustrating
01:07:51 - Wrestlequest and wrestling movies
01:11:09 - The new challenges at Giant Bomb
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Comments
Ben Hanson
Awesome, thanks for the support!
LevelWiley
This got me to up from 2 to 5. Great interview Ben, did not disappoint.
Tyler Lambert
Btw I will say dans experience with marketing speak and “idea” people is not far off from my own. There’s always smart people you’re talking to BUT that doesn’t mean they have a lot of experience or knowledge about certain things.
I am just now listening to bombcast. Good time to hop on?
Tyler Lambert
This came out much faster than I anticipated
