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24 Apr 2010

Sound & Vision

So you're an internerd who spends far too much time thinking about games, right?

In that case, I'm sure you have some favourite websites that regurgitate press releases and opine at great length and so on, but don't your eyes get tired reading all those cramped-up little letters? Seems to me that the audio-visual side of things is sometimes under-explored. There's some great episodic stuff out there that you might be missing out on.

For example, are you following any of the following?:

Audio

  • Idle Thumbs - Industry types meet to talk games. Infectious giggling, stream of consciousness riffing, and passionate discourse ensues.
  • A Life Well Wasted - Polished mix of documentary, interviews & soundscapes in the manner of This American Life.

Video

There's a few more that I tried but couldn't stick with. Zero Punctuation was OK at first, but the style got old pretty quickly. There's the various offerings from the Penny Arcade media empire, but their latest PATV stuff seems a little bit self-aggrandizing in places. And there's Tom Vasel's Dice Tower. That guy's just too prolific to keep up with, although I liked the Top 100 run-downs with his daughters.

So that's my contributions. Know of any others I should be paying attention to?

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