@halo1399: Yep, not for me. Mostly because i was still consuming paper magazines in my native language at the time. But also if that was the case i would gravitate towards Giantbomb right now, while i only get back to them during E3s.

My dream team was when the UK team was at it strongest with: Guy Cocker, Danny O'Dware, Jane Douglas, Johnny Chiodini, Cam Robinson, Seb Ford, Sarah Lynch, Martin Gaston, Lucy James. Gathering all their names now feels like Incredible, unrepeatable lineup.

And then on the other side of the pond: Kevin VanOrd, Tom McShea, Caroline Petit, (their GamePlay podcast was probably the first gaming podcast that i ever listened regularly to, still my favorite form of entertainment), Justin Haywald, Chris Watters, Mark Walton, Mary Kish, Peter Brown and add to that Zorine from the AU office.

The sheer amount of people that i really liked at the time, and still follow sporadically on their new jobs, being in the same media at roughly the same time is just incomparable to the Giantbomb crew or any other for that matter. Only Twitch, since a couple of years, is giving me the same kind of feeling sans the family atmosphere.

btw Tom's The Breakroom Interview with Johnattan Blow and Kevin's with Ken Levine are still my gold standard for something like that.

Surprised and very glad to see on reddit that Tom McShea signed another gamespot article. He was part of the golden age of that site. At the time gamespot was for me what twitch is now.

30eur in 200eur minimal wage Eastern Europe.

Funniest thing today

I've played PES even during the so called bad years but they lost all my attention with these PS3->PC ports.

Frankly i prefer The Point from before Danny moved, so i don't see why it should stop. On the flip side i think Andy was seriously underused on camera. He was my favorite guest on the Lobby.

Much better and nothing like FO4.

Great strategy, the fanboys are so loud, nobody has time to realize it's just a reskin.

@Solid_Answers12: This is not GDC, Bethesda is highly tolerated at this event not for the first time.

Step in the right direction but still not too different than the old lobby - too short, too many people showing for 10 minutes to rehash their reviews .You say that you look at the new game media situation but looks like you don't get it. Take a page from dropped frames, co-op podcast and look back at your UK and GamePlay podcast. This needs more time for naturally emerging conversations around topics bigger than the reviews of the last week games and interaction with the chat.