GAMES MEDIA AWARDS: THE FINALISTS 60 MCV 10/09/10
GAMES BROADCAST/PODCAST
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Rampage (Radio 1Xtra)
BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Rampageshow goes out every weekday between 10am and 1pm. Co-host Mike Anthony is a hugely passionate gamer and has helped ensure the show features plenty of games coverage relevant to its audience.
One Life Left (Resonance FM)
One Life Leftis Europe’s only FM- broadcast video game radio show. It goes out on Monday evenings on Resonance 104.4FM across London and is repackaged as a podcast. The show is presented by industry veterans Ste Curran and Simon Byron alongside MCV‘30 Under 30’ savant Ann Scantlebury. The show is fiercely independent and largely ridiculous.
The Blyth Report (IGN)
The Blyth Reporttakes a video game, and uses it as a springboard to make puerile and frequently incoherent jokes. While Blyth is the big stupid face of the show, Stuard Reid provides the visual flair that mask the chasms in the script, and Matt Wales takes time out of his busy week to point out that many of the jokes aren’t, in fact, funny. The result is surprisingly watchable.
SentUAMessage (Inside Xbox)
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SentUAMessage’s objective is simple: answer as many of the 360 community’s burning questions in the most entertaining fashion possible. Dan ‘MrPointyHead’ Maher and Andy ‘SuperKaylo’ Farrant co-write and co- host this mailbag show, the most popular regular feature on Xbox Live’s editorial channel. Their long-suffering video team do their best to make them look halfway decent on a sub-shoestring budget.
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Shortlist (ShortList Media)
Aimed at 20 to 35-year-old ABC1 men, ShortListreaches a readership practically untouched by other mainstream magazines. It is distributed free in 11 British cities every week and through a network of workplaces, airlines and retailers. ShortListis the UK’s largest men’s magazine, with an audited weekly circulation of 518,222. Gaming is a core element of its coverage, even extending to covers – a rarity in men’s lifestyle titles. Video games are also covered on its website,
ShortList.com
Wired (Condé Nast)
The UK’s Magazine Launch of the Year 2009, Wiredcasts early light on smart innovators and significant new ideas in the world around us, supported by award- winning design. The magazine’s games coverage consistently picks up on hot trends: ‘serious games’ that hope to change the world; games that bridge both digital space and meatspace; games that capitalise on multi- screen viewing. But it also finds smart ways into the mainstream; in the October issue there is an interview with one of the ‘Tier 1 operators’ that EA consulted to add realism to its next Medal of Honorinstalment.
GAMES MEDIA LEGEND
The final award of the night will be given to this year’s Games Media Legend. There are no nominations in this category. The recipient will be decided by a panel of media experts and veterans. Previous winners are Newsfield pioneer and general game mag colossus Gary Penn, Future’s Steve Jarratt - the man who launched the UK’s most commercially successful title (Official PlayStation Magazine) and the most critically acclaimed (Edge), and VG247founder Patrick Garratt.
Zoo Weekly (Bauer Consumer Media)
Zoohas delivered games coverage to its readers each week since its first issue in 2004. Its website
zootoday.com has also produced original gaming content including a hugely popular games reviews vlog presented by ex-Hollyoaks stars and gamers Matt Littler and Darren Jeffries. Zooruns a full page of games reviews each week and has scooped even the specialist press with exclusive hands-on of titles including DJ Hero, Halo 3: ODSTand FIFA 10. The magazine is committed to breaking stories and providing coverage from events like E3.
Nuts (IPC Media)
For Nutsgames exclusives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with mass-market stories like the misadventures of the latest Big Brotherevictee. That means it has secured world-first print coverage of hot games like Modern Warfare 2, God Of War IIIand Assassin’s Creed II– even GTA’s Gay Tony was shown to the world first within the pages of Nuts. Meanwhile, Nuts’ gaming news section is the fastest-growing corner of its men’s consumer website
Nuts.co.uk.
Eurogamer Podcast (
Eurogamer.net)
The
Eurogamer.net Podcastis a weekly digest of news and new game releases hosted by the Eurogamerteam. Special guests this year included development legend Charles Cecil and industry veteran Andy Payne.
First Play (Future Publishing)
Claiming that your new media launch is groundbreaking would normally earn you a pat on the head and six months of nobody returning your calls. But with FirstPlayit’s the only word. Future’s interactive PS3 show combines the editorial expertise of OPMwith broadcast-quality HD videos and a killer delivery mechanism: the PlayStation Store. Not only a revolutionary step for Future and its relationship with Sony, but it also offers over half an hour of authoritative, finely crafted, and funny programming every week, unmatched by anything on television or the web.
Johnny Minkley (BBC Radio 1)
Radio 1’s producers have consistently backed gaming in a high-profile, six million- rated slot, presented by Minkley during Jo Whiley’s Saturday session. Last year he presented an hour- long preview show and contributed to the ‘Big Gaming Weekend’. As a platform for credible coverage of games it’s still something Johnny takes very seriously.
Front (Flip Media)
Founded in 1998, and relaunched in 2007 as an ‘alternative lad’s mag’, Frontis gaining a huge cult following within its core 16 to 25 year- old, with rising sales to reflect this. In terms of games, Front boasts preview spreads of upcoming games and reviews from in-house writer Alex Sim- Wise, who took over the section in April 2009. By covering a wide variety of games, from MMORPGs to shooters, Front tries to offer its readers more than just a token review of Pro Evolution Soccer, with plenty of humour to boot.
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