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Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline.

I'm, of course, your host, Ed Zittron.

And for this week's episode, I flew out to North Carolina to do a longer form interview.

The first of its kind on the show, a little slower, a little more fun.

And I did it with

Steve Burke, founder and host of Gamer's Nexus, an incredible hardware YouTube channel that's

been going since 2008 and has over 2.5 million subscribers. We talked about the history of Gamer's

Nexus, the state of the hardware industry, tech journalism, gamers Nexus is an incredibly

scientific approach to hardware testing and, of course, a little bit about AI.

I think you're going to really like it. Enjoy.

So how long has the channel been running? How long have you been doing this now?

About 17 years and five months.

And you started off just doing gaming content.

Look, I did go back in the files and found like a modern warfare trailer, I think,

and then the office space parody, which is awesome.

Yeah, yeah. So it started as game reviews and trailer analysis videos, which was the

Modern Warfare One and Battlefield trailer analysis. And that was like a whole subgenre back

then. You got the trailer. You kind of picked apart what's going to be in this game.

And then I did game interviews.

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