Archive for August, 2008

The Totally Rad Show heads to Texas for ROGCon this weekend!

August 5th, 2008 at 03:01 by Ron Richards in Live Events

The Totally Rad Show team will be down in Dallas this weekend to attend the Republic of Gamers Conference. At most gaming conventions the controllers spend more time in the hands of professionals rather than guys like you or me. Over the last decade the emergence of elite gamers has really helped to propell the industry to new heights but alienated the players who ultimately support the industry….This is not the case at ROGCon which is open to everyone and focused on creating a HUGE public LAN party where the public to decides which games are part of the competitions and compete to win computers and other big prizes. Beyond being able to play the games, all of the big dogs on the industry will be there showing off the latest hardware and software, much of which has not even hit the market yet. Best of all, registration is FREE!

The TRS team is really excited to headed down to an event that is focused on the gamer and what gamers are interested in most: actually getting to play video games. Big thanks to ASUS and Intel for putting on the event…..we hope to see you there!

To learn more: www.rogcon.com


New Pictures of Revision3 Studio

August 5th, 2008 at 07:09 by Jim Louderback in Website

Long time Revision3 friend and photographer Scott Beale stopped by last week to be a guest on the new and improved Internet Superstar. While there, as is his wont, he snapped a few pictures. Check ‘em out at his site, Laughing Squid. And just a reminder, our studio is now available for rent. All the details are on our new Revision3 San Francisco studio rental page. Oh, and check out this interview with me from Amsterdam at the Next Web conference too. Thanks Sky Television!

- Jim Louderback


Internet Superstar 2.0

August 4th, 2008 at 08:07 by Martin Sargent in Shows

Thanks to all of you who have taken a look at our fresh start for Internet Superstar. We hope you like what you see, and continue to watch because of it. If you haven’t had a chance to watch, please take a look.

Gator is dead, and all of us here at Revision3 are just heartbroken. In fact, Roger Chang went on a four-day bender because of it. But as I told him, many culturally significant Americans weren’t regarded as such prior to their passing, and I think that will be true of Gator. Plus, though Gator is irreplaceable, we can take comfort in the fact that sitting alongside me now will be my longtime collaborator Jay Speiden, who also happens to be Gator’s city cousin. Small world. Jay has been my main collaborator on pretty much everything I’ve done since day one of Unscrewed (not that that’s necessarily something you’d want on your resume), and I think you’ll really like what he brings to the show.

Right now, the plan is to do five shorter shows a week, Monday through Friday. We’ve got a lot of great interviews, segments, and important advice cooking, so expect every show to be different, and, hopefully, as we continue to figure it out, better than the one before it.

Because the show is still only partially molded clay, please keep emailing me your thoughts and suggestions, and make ample use of our message boards to express your opinions, positive or negative. We read and consider everything. In fact, part of the reason we changed the show in the first place was your feedback. We’re also excited to announce that we’re expanding to a couple of new playgrounds on the Internet:

Now you can follow our every move on Twitter at twitter.com/bestshowever as well as you can become a fan of Internet Superstar on our new Facebook page. It’s going to be the place to get exclusive Internet Superstar fun stuff to make your enjoyment of our show that much better!

Anyway, for those of you who are long time fans, we hope you’ll continue to watch and enjoy our work. And for those of you who weren’t into Internet Superstar in its previous iteration, we hope you’ll take a look at, and like, the new version. Regardless, thanks for watching our show and all the other fantastic Revision3 programming.

-Martin