"it runs MSN conversations between the staff as features. Even Edge never stooped that far up its own arse."

I enjoyed that - thanks for the look back into history, Dante.

So, to give that article some back story:

When we were writing The Player/Play.d I was working a pretty boring job as a product manager for a little telecommunications company. I was 21 or 22 I think and I was convinced I wanted to make this internet magazine my career. 

I was pretty serious about it, constantly emailing/calling advertisers, publishers, developers to see if we could get games, coverage, advertising, etc. 

Anyway, we actually started to get a little bit of success. We had a few thousand downloads of our podcast whenever we'd bothered to release one. Our magazine was getting some decent hits and we were getting 'some' coverage.

One day, out of the blue, I get an email from the editor of UK:Resistance asking if he could run a blog on our magazine. He apparently liked it, but found the whole Gillen interview to be pretty funny (which, in hindsight, it was - totally self-serving).

So there we were, all primed and ready to head to UK:R to join in with the mocking - and I think that little article generated a tidy bit of traffic.

It was fun - but my god we spent a lot of our time working on that fucking magazine; and look where it got us...

Ah, but here we all are, eh? Even if The Player was still during my lurking days. BACK ON THE ROAD, GANG.

I very nearly called this thread 'because I love google', but went for simplicity.

google wrote:

Yup, indeed it does. I remember the EDGE forum being pretty aggressive back in those days. Very cliquey.

Indeed. It's nice to look back on years later though and reflect on how we managed to grow out of the "terrible teens" as it were, and build what's ultimately become a very tight knit and worthwhile little community.

that's life

g.man

Remember when Gillen was invited on the poddo and then became so uncomfortable with the general content of everone else's conversation that he wasn't happy with the episode going out at all or something

In probably better news I gather Idle Thumbs successfully Kickstartered ($100k+, goal was only $30k) and are getting their decent videogames show running again. High quality produce.