POP Ep.42: Public Relations, The Industry, and Everything (Voicemail line 713-893-8069)

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.5 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2007

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Are Public Relations representatives really the secret evil behind all that is wrong with videogame journalism? Or are they just another necessary evil in the giant game of game media? The boys discuss a recent article over at Gamasutra regarding this very subject, as well as wax nostalgic about some of their run-ins with over-zealous PR folks and publishing CEOs.

But first they talk about what's been gracing the disc-trays of their various consoles this past week. Games ranging from the original Tomb Raider to Picross DS to Persona 3 and more are all included. Numan Athletics even gets a mention! Finally, the boys listen to (and mock) your feedback. There were some great calls this week.

Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don't forget to join our forums!

This week's link:
Gamasutra: PR and the Game Media

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 42 of the Player One podcast for August 13, 2007.
0:19.9	I'm your host, Greg Seward, and with me as always is my co-host and resident Apple whore, Chris Johnston. I love apples. Yes. Yes. I hate you. When did you do computer show up? No, this week. And you shouldn't be jealous. Try not to be jealous. I'm not jealous.
0:38.5	It's just hatred.
0:39.6	You told me over aim while you were sobbing.
0:44.2	I wasn't sobbing.
0:45.7	You were, yeah.
0:46.8	He said sobbing.
0:48.5	Poor guy.
0:49.2	Aw.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:51.4	It'll be okay, Greg.
0:52.7	Yeah.
0:53.0	And with us as always is California's most dastardly of Pekross puzzle creators, Phil Theobald.
0:58.7	We are the Newman athletes. We'll show you the best events.
1:04.4	See, now I actually know what games that's wrong. I should hope so.
1:07.8	But I never did play it.
1:09.3	Well, that's part of the titles and the quote that you just... That's your first problem. Because friggin' Newman Athletics was an amazing game. Yeah, CJ should tell the story about what happened to that machine you guys played. Oh, God, that breaks my heart. Yeah, it was so funny. Well, let's introduce Dan first. There you go. Dan Dorman. Hey, Dan, how are you? Good. How are you? This week from his junior prom. Yeah. Wouldn't you like to know? Yes. I don't know. Before we came on the air, you were telling stories about girls on their knees on stages and strange hooded ceremonies.
1:44.2	It sounded pretty filthy and awesome.
1:46.5	Yeah.
1:47.4	Yeah.
1:48.0	It's not very clean for the podcast, so.
1:50.1	That's true.
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