Game Reviews and Other News

My semester is finally coming to an end later on tonight. I just have to pull a 9-12 page paper out of my bum tonight and it is over.

On the business side of things, I have arranged for a couple of game reviewers to tear Geek Fight! a new one. One is a podcast while another is a blogger like myself. I think it would be great to have others try out our game and give me a rundown. Everyone that plays it gets addicted, with the exception of people too young to be in our demographic anyway, which is fine since our next set is not very kid friendly.

Another great thing is that I have opened conversations with a couple of people that will be very helpful in the future. One is the president of Geekvolution.com, a new social network for geeks that is launching next year. The other is the marketing director for a ton of sites (and yes, I checked with the sites he said he reps, and they say he's legit). This is going to get very interesting.

Finally, since my free time is going to increase very soon, I will be able to get back to reviewing games myself. I am still debating going audio for reviews or keeping things written. Only time will tell.

Geek Fight! on NPR!

So I heard from one of my customers that Geek Fight has been mentioned on an NRP show, and I honestly could not believe my ears. I had to find out for myself.

I heard that the show that decided to rock out loud is called Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, and I decided to look it up on Google. Sure enough the trail led me to the homepage for the show, and fortunately they archive all of their episodes. I gave it a listen, and not only was it funny, but they did actually mention Geek Fight!.

If you do not believe me, jump over to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me and hear for yourself. The segment we were mentioned in is called Not My Job, and we are mentioned at around the 9 minute mark.

'Casting Decisions

Well, I cannot figure out whether I want to do a plain audio podcast or if I want to do a video. There are a lot of factors involved in this decision actually.

I am ultimately more comfortable just doing an audio podcast, but unless I am doing one of my long and dry game reviews (which are not going to be dry anymore, I swear) I will not have enough content to feel comfortable posting it. i am so used to seeing podcasts that are about 20-30 minutes long, and I just don;t have that much to say. I doubt I will be doing any interviews in the near future, but that is the only way I think I could flesh the sucker out.

On the other hand, I have a decent video camera (good enough quality that I could post the video on youtube) and videos tend to be shorter than their audio only counterparts. There is also the added bonus of actually being able to show you the product I am talking about. I have no video editing skills however, and I can pretty much guarantee that the video will be lame beyond belief.

In the end, I really do not know which format I will choose. I think audio will win out, and in the end the decision is not one that is important at the moment. I lack readers and listeners, though I keep noticing some of my followers from so long ago popping up on my StatCounter.com account. You know who you are Greely, Colorado (or person from somewhere in that region).