Well, it’s been a long time in the works, and we’ve done a good job of not letting the cat out of the bag, but after almost three months of negotiations we can proudly announce that Geekscape, Geekscape TV and all things Geekscape have been acquired by our good friends at Nerdist.
We can’t release exact details of the acquisition quite yet, but we are all excited to be joining our former Geekscape peers now at Nerdist Brian Walton, Witney Seibold and Eric Diaz under the Nerdist banner (heck, it was only a matter of time before we were all over there anyways, right?). Well, everyone but Matt Kelly, who is being let go.
Also departing is Geekscape founder Jonathan London, who is moving on to other pursuits. “(Nerdist Editor in Chief) Brian Walton is one of my favorite people on the planet and I feel really good about handing everything over to him. I’m really proud of the guy. It seems like just yesterday that I found him stealing the hubcaps off of my replica Batmobile and started him writing for Geekscape. To watch his rising career has been a real pleasure.”
Joining former Geekscape writers Seibold and Diaz will be current Geekscape managing editor Derek Kraneveldt, who will have to relocate from the outskirts of Vancouver to Burbank, California. Geekscape contributor Shane O’Hare will help beef up Nerdist’s My Little Pony and Brony-themed content while writer Joshua Jackson head the companies pro-wrestling contributions. Geekscape writer Juan Carlos Marquez will fulfill the new title of Señor Director of Nintendo and Nintendo Ambassador services. Also in the mix is current Nerdist video-games writer Malik Forté, who never wrote for Geekscape but who both Walton and London met in Vegas while covering CES for Geekscape and thought “man, he’s a really cool guy.”
Rumored to be rejoining as well is former Geekscape editor Brian Gilmore, who can’t possibly be doing a very good a job as Managing Editor for the popular Tobuscus Youtube channel and may soon be out on the street. Thank goodness he now has friends in high places.
This acquisition comes on the heels of numerous Geekscape employees migrating to Nerdist over the course of a few years. Fox Business Global Markets Editor Maria Bartiromo was quoted on the new merger saying:
I believe this was a deliberate and well executed maneuver of the team at Geekscape.net. The gradual shift of writers, editors and contributors from Geekscape.net to Nerdist shows that the inevitable merger was the goal of Geekscape all along. They planted their best and brightest at Nerdist and waited for them to bear fruit. And then they fired Matt Kelly.
The whereabouts of former Geekscape contributor Ben Dunn can not be confirmed at this time… but you should lock your doors and windows regardless. He has been known to change under the full moon.