If you haven’t heard, Dan Hsu has teamed up with some of his old 1UP cohorts Demian Linn, Greg Ford and Michael Donahoe to launch a new community based gaming site called Bitmob. It is centered around the idea of providing off-beat gaming commentary while allowing community contributions make it into the editorial section.
Marking the launch of the site is the first Mobcast which features many familiar voices. The show has somewhat of a unique hook of 5 guys and 5 topics each week. Each person will bring a topic that they think is interesting or significant to the table to be discussed. It may be a nice change of pace from the typical “what you’ve been playing” based shows.
The topics in this inaugural episode include the prospect that the current generation of consoles could be the last, the impact of going from a position in the press to one on the development side, formats of interesting and not so interesting podcasts and a few more.
It’s a nice addition to the gaming podcast sphere and we will be sure to follow this cast for at least a few more weeks.
This is it, the debut episode of the Mobcast, a podcast that is destined to be described by iTunes commentators as “Five guys in a room? Really?” and “No 97.5 the Brodeo.”
Our first show was recorded a bit over a month ago, during the Game Developers Conference, so pardon a few out-of-date references to the revolutionary telegraph machine. Aside from Dan ‘Shoe’ Hsu, who you’ll hear on most episodes of Mobcast, special guests on Mobcast 001 include former EGM and 1UPers Mark MacDonald, Che Chou, Chris Johnston, Bryan Intihar, and Shane Bettenhausen. We also have Robert Ashley of A Life Well Wasted adding some additional commentary as the disembodied voice of God. Special thanks to Robert for handling production duties as well.
We could go into detail about the many topics this show actually covers, but we’d rather you stop reading and start listening!
Runtime – 1:31:30
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