The gaming news community got a shock a few weeks ago when it was announced that Gamefly had purchased the long time independent gaming news web site Shacknews. It was an even bigger surprise when it was later learned that the founder of the site, Steve Gibson, had decided to leave the day-to-day job on working on the site.

Now it looks like Gibson has found a new gig working in the game industry itself. An update on the Gearbox Software community site shows a new listing of "Steve G" as Gearbox's marketing director. Gibson himself mentions his new job in a recent Shacknews forum post. He states that his new gig is "mostly what you would expect, short term is helping out on marketing and longer term really fun stuff is business development side." We wish him the best in his new endevor.