There seems to be a natural transition of the gaming blogger into other venues, such as streaming, vlogging or podcasting. The MMO blogosphere has seen a good portion of its longterm residents take up new projects over the years, sometimes leaving altogether to write for bigger sites or then, creating their own independent channels and collaboratives. For a while now we’ve seen an increase of great MMO podcasts hailing from our own neighbourhood, some of which I feel closely related to. I am therefore very excited to announce the launch of The Gaming and Entertainment Network – a new podcasting network by gamers for gamers, bringing the following independent podcasts together under one roof:
- Aggrochat
- Battle Bards
- Beyond Bossfights
- Cat Context
- Contains Moderate Peril
- Couch Podtatoes
- Massive Failure
- Roleplay Domain
TGEN is a collaborative relationship between like-minded podcasters and serves as an aggregator for general MMO/gaming themed podcasts that fit together from a synergistic perspective. It’s meant to make discovery easier for our individual audiences and helps spreading the word across different shows. All podcasts remain independent in their current form. In the future, TGEN may also host regular cross-podcast, round-table discussions between its members.
I want to thank Braxwolf for inspiring this collaborative and doing the lion’s share in terms of communicating between many different parties, conceptualizing and creating a shiny and functional layout for the TGEN homepage.
Another big thanks goes to all our regular listeners of Battle Bards who have been following our quirky little podcast since April 2013 and made this such a fun and rewarding experience: Thank you for your continued support and spreading the word about TGEN. We hope you’ll stick with us on our musical journey and discover some more great and new podcasts on the way!
Links: TGEN webpage and twitter account.
Does this mean your little podcast is growing up?
There is very small danger of that, hehe! =D
What a fantastic idea! Seems like the perfect time to get into listening to podcasts, now that they’re all in the one spot 🙂
Definitely! I hope you find a few you enjoy 🙂
That’s really cool to hear.
Is there a special reason to not include the direct mp3 link like on the Battle Bards website?
I might be the only person in the world not using podcasts via RSS or a Podcast app…
but as long as it stays on the real website I won’t complain 🙂
That’s a good point – we’re still tweaking the functionality of the new site, so this is welcome feedback. 🙂 I’ll look into it, thanks!