4 posts tagged “gamercast network”

What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.

I'm an avid gamer, techie and current-affairs junkie so I check...

• The Gamercast Network - website for a series of podcasts and a brilliant good-natured forum as well. 
  
• Eurogamer - great news site for games and a rare gem of European based news. 
  
• BBC News - my absolute favourite news channel and website. 
  
• Digg - a superb social news site, excellent for highlighting the quirkier stories as well as good solid tech news. 
  
• Xbox.com - I have a 360 but don't use it every day, I visit the site to see who's online, read my messages and send messages to my friends. 
  

That's all folks. 

So, I actually bothered watching the live stream of Bill Gates' keynote at CES - I love insomnia sometimes.  All in all it was relatively interesting, I paid special attention to the Xbox 360 section which announced their IPTV service (no details and cynicism/experience tells me it'll be US only).  Some cross-platform features of Xbox Live and Vista were mentioned, I like the idea but it'll be a while before it really catches on with PC users.  I posted my live notes about the Xbox 360 portion on the forums of the GamerCast Network, if you don't know about them please download and listen to their excellent podcasts, I listen to the Video Game Show, but they also host the extremely popular GamerTag Radio and Uncle Gamer Radio. 

There was also a bit of blathering about how great everyone thinks Gears of War is, I personally wasn't that fussed - if they made an FPS that was equally good looking I might be interested but as far as I'm concerned it looks great but plays distinctly average.  I heard someone describe it as a pretty version of whack-a-mole and honestly that's exactly what it is. 

They demoed some cool features in Vista which should be good once they've been service-packed to hell, my favourite was the integration with the Xbox 360 controller - I've got to find some use for the handful of spares I have lying around.  Other than that it was relatively uninspiring, they had the balls to mention both Urge and Zune even though they're both different incompatible products trying to achieve the same aim. 

Do you listen to podcasts?  Are there any you'd recommend? 
Inspired by Alex.

I love podcasts, they're the best thing to happen to broadcast media since the web became popular back in the 90s.  On average, I'm quite confident that I spend more hours per week listening to podcasts than I do watching television. 

I'm not sure where I come down on the podcast vs netcast debate but I agree that a new name is needed.  One thing that I'd love to be more widely known is that you don't need an iPod to play podcasts!

My favourites are definitely the TWiT netcasts from Leo Laporte and the gang, they're professional and informative.  I love the discussion from the panel of This Week in Tech but I really think that awards should be give to Security Now, that show has taught me so much about IT security that I'm somewhat of an expert amongst my peers (and I do work in IT). 

Other favourites are the Video Game Show from the guys at Gamercast Network, it's informal but the guys really know their stuff and the last episode was so funny I was practically in tears.  Another hilarous but informative show is the MeanDawg Top 5, each week the guys pick their Top 5 movies in a given category and debate eachother's choices. 
Oh, and as a final word - you can't forget Ask a Ninja.

For me this was quite a big news item, I got into the DreamStation.cc Video Game Show podcast earlier in the year and have been an avid listener since.  The podcast basically covers news, opinion and humour from the world of videogaming and was very well produced/edited compared to many other podcasts - basically think TWiT for gamers.  

Well, now the host of the show Chris Paladino has secured a job working for Microsoft's gaming community site Gamerscore Blog working in the community - a dream come true more-or-less.  The rest of the crew have created a new podcasting network Gamercast Network to bring together a range of independent gaming podcasts, this could be good for gamers in general so watch this space. 

As for DreamStation.cc, they're continuing to podcast and will grow into their own style once more, I will definitely keep on listening and using the forums, if you've never tried I reccommend you have a look.