The Geekbox: Episode 209

The Geekbox

Ryan Scott

1up, Who, Ign, Playstation, Gamespy, Xbox, Tv, Dr, Comics, Gfw, Leisure, Burn, Ziff, Lost, Games, Nintendo, Gaming, Cgw, Venture, Dc, Egm, Video Games, Marvel, Geekbox, Movies, Warcraft, Notice

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2013

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Wherein we discuss botched audio, the death of 1UP and GameSpy, the big PlayStation 4 announcement, extreme car fetishism, awkward Final Fantasy non-announcements, awesome Diablo III non-announcements, Chinese achievement-farmers, livestreamed games, social media on consoles, how to use Tumblr, Cliff Bleszinski's crazy predictions, 2012 Oscar-bait, the Internet police, and live-action anime adaptations. Starring Ryan Scott, Karen Chu, Adam Fitch, and Ryan Higgins, with special guest Greg Kromer.

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0:35.0	weekly podcast for botched audio and hastily recorded damage control messages.
0:44.3	This is the show for the week of February 25th, 2013.
0:49.7	I'm your host Ryan Scott, and somehow I managed to completely break the first seven minutes of
0:56.0	the show which is kind of a shame since this week in addition to Karen Chu
1:01.5	Ryan Higgins and Adam Fitch, we are joined by listener Greg Cromer, who is
1:09.2	on leave from his military post in North Carolina, visiting his family here in San Jose and he stopped by to say
1:17.0	hello to his favorite Bay Area podcasting crew.
1:20.3	He's a cool guy, avid gamer, a fan of World of Warcraft and League of Legends.
1:24.8	And he has let Adam Fish in particular know that, yes, boot camp is really that intense.
1:30.7	We now join the show Midstream as we discuss the recent deaths of GameSpy.com and One Up.com, which Igen Entertainment and new
1:38.0	parent company J2 Global decided to shudder last week just to do their new restructuring plans.
1:46.0	It's kind of sad. Both sites are gone.
1:49.0	I have held time positions at Game Spy and One Up over the past several years.
1:55.0	And, you know, this podcast would not be here if it weren't for One Up.
2:00.0	And although I didn't get a chance to say this during our actual recording, I want to thank everyone who was ever a part of that community, of the One Up community during the 10 years that it was alive, whether perhaps you were someone I worked with, or if you were
2:16.5	a super-fam that read or listen to all of our stuff, or if you never personally followed any of my stuff that I wrote or recorded, or if you were just,
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