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Greg Kasavin – executive editor and site director of GameSpot, who left in 2007 to become a game developer.It had recently added a larger video player and community forums to the site. It provides Japanese video game industry news, previews, reviews, features, and videos as well as translated articles from the other GameSpot sites. GameSpot Japan ( Japan) in its current form launched in 2007. The site was fully re-launched mid 2006, with a specialized forum, local reviews, special features, local pricings in A$, Australian release dates, and more local news. When a local version of the main CNET portal, was launched in 2003, content was folded into. In a similar fashion, GameSpot AU ( Australia) existed on a local scale in the late 1990s with Australian-produced reviews. On April 24, 2006, GameSpot UK was relaunched. Following the purchase of ZDNet by CNET, GameSpot UK was merged with the main US site. During this period, GameSpot UK won the 1999 PPAi (Periodical Publishers Association interactive) award for best website, and was short listed in 2001.
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GameSpot UK ( United Kingdom) was started in October 1997 and operated until mid-2002, offering Europe-oriented content which often differed from that of the U.S. On October 3, 2005, GameSpot adopted a new design similar to that of TV.com, now considered a sister site to GameSpot. In 1997, became for a short period, and by 1998, the PC and console sections were united at. Its sister site,, was launched in December 1996 to cover console games. Initially, GameSpot focused exclusively on PC games. GameSpot was founded by Vince Broady and two of his friends in San Francisco, out of an old travel agency building.
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CBS Interactive, which purchased CNET Networks in 2008, is the current owner of GameSpot. It was purchased by ZDNet, a brand which was later purchased by CNET Networks. The site was launched on by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on certain video games.