As some of you may or may not know I am a big fan of podcasts. I love the idea of being able to essentially put a recorded radio show onto my ipod to listen to at my own convenience. I find myself listening to them quite a lot whenever I'm driving or even when I game. Sometimes I'll even put a podcast on to provide a little background noise when doing schoolwork. Anyways, I thought I would share some of my favorite gaming podcasts and what I enjoy about them. You can't go wrong listening to any of them.
1. Rebel FM: A podcast hosted by three guys that were laid off from 1up last year at this time. They previously hosted the 1up FM podcast, but since they were laid off Rebel FM is their new show. They are currently freelance writers who play a lot of games and have very well developed opinions on them. Rebel FM also has an aspect of humor which can sometimes be a bit odd, but overall quite funny and does not detract from the content at all. Their home site is eat-sleep-game.com. I highly recommend everyone give at least one or two of their episodes a listen to see if you enjoy them as much as I do. They produce one general podcast a week and one podcast they refer to as "Game Club." During their "Game Club" episodes they discuss a pre-selected game in which they have all been playing. Usually the game is at least a year or two old.
2. In Game Chat: A podcast hosted by a group of friends from Alabama that have being doing so for about 3 years now. They previously hosted the Evil Avatar podcast, which was also a live radio show locally. However, because of college sports taking over their time slot on the radio they have returned to simply producing weekly podcasts under the In Game Chat name. They produces very intelligent, well thought out discussion about games and news from all the platforms including the PC. I have been listening to them since they're first episodes so I cannot recommend them enough.
3. 4 Guys 1Up: Formerly known as the 1up Yours podcast, 4 Guys 1up is hosted by writers from 1up.com. Each week they bring in somebody from the industry to guest host the podcast with them. They discuss an array of topics ranging from the games they are currently playing to industry events they have recently attended. All in all, the podcast can be described as quality gaming discussion from industry writers and developers.
Those are three of my favorite podcasts. There are many, many more out there but I feel that these are the cream of the crop. Believe me, I have listened to the majority of them so I think I can tell a quality podcast from a shitty one. Anyways, back to studying. Might try to fire through a few more stars in Guitar Hero 5 later as well but who knows. Enjoy your Wednesday evenings!
I like the idea of podcasts but get thrown off by the length of them. I listened to a few of x360a's when they first came out and it was good, then they started exceeding the hour mark and I lost interest.
ReplyDeleteHopefully I'll do as you say one day and give some of these guys a go, it's most likely however that I won't.
x360a's podcast is complete trash.
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