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GameTrailers
Gametrailers New Logo Wikipedia.png

The website's final logo used from 2012 to 2016
Bachelor in English
Founded March 25, 2002 (2002-03-25)
Dissolved Feb 19, 2016 (2016-02-nineteen)
Headquarters Santa Monica, California, United states of america
Owner IGN
Founder(s) Geoffrey R. Grotz, Brandon Jones
Industry Video game journalism
URL world wide web.gametrailers.com (redirects to YouTube channel)
Registration Optional
Current status Succeeded by Like shooting fish in a barrel Allies; make continued as a YouTube channel hosting archived videos and new video game trailers

GameTrailers ( GT ) was an American video gaming website created past Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002. The website specialized in multimedia content, including trailers and gameplay footage of upcoming and recently released video games, too as an assortment of original video content focusing on video games, including reviews, countdown shows, and other spider web series.

GameTrailers was caused by Viacom in November 2005; under its ownership, GameTrailers also produced a television set series, GameTrailers Television set with Geoff Keighley, for sister holding Fasten TV. In 2014, the site was acquired by Defy Media. In Feb 2016, the site was shut downward; rights to GameTrailers ' brand and content were sold to IGN Amusement, which continues to run its YouTube aqueduct, while near of GT 'due south remaining staff went on to found the independent gaming publication Like shooting fish in a barrel Allies.

Concern history [edit]

GameTrailers was founded by Geoff Grotz and Brandon Jones (the latter who was the chief narrating voice of the company's videos throughout its existence) in 2002. Jon Slusser and his visitor Hornet Animation invested in the startup, and Jon took over as CEO. The company was then acquired past MTV Networks in November 2005 for an undisclosed sum.[i] On March 18, 2006, Shane Satterfield was hired equally GameTrailers' outset editor-in-principal and supervising producer.

In 2007, MTV Networks restructured its entertainment sectionalization, merging Ifilm.com and SpikeTV.com into Spike.com, and grouping this new property, GameTrailers and Xfire, into Spike Digital Entertainment, with Jon Slusser as the new SVP in accuse, Geoff Grotz as Vice President of Product Development, Shane Satterfield as Vice President of Content,[2] and Brad Winters as the new general manager of GameTrailers.com.[three]

In June 2014, GameTrailers was purchased past Defy Media.[4] Soon afterwards information technology was reported that senior members of GameTrailers were fired, which is about two-thirds of full-fourth dimension staff.[5] On February 8, 2016, GameTrailers was shut down.[6]

On June 1, 2015, Shane Satterfield launched a hand-curated social network for gaming enthusiasts nether the name SIFTD. On March 21, 2016, a bulk of the remaining staff at GameTrailers, including Brandon Jones, launched a series of new Patreon-supported channels nether the new proper name Easy Allies.[6] Since 2016, IGN Entertainment has owned GameTrailers' brand and back catalog. The visitor will go along to maintain GameTrailers' YouTube channel, uploading archived original content, and posting new trailers via the aqueduct.[vi]

Original content [edit]

GameTrailers' first version of its magazine way show was GT Weekly and premiered in Baronial 2005, hosted by Amanda MacKay and Daniel Kayser. Afterwards 44 episodes, in March 2007, the testify was rebranded every bit GameOne and given a live chat where viewers could talk about the show.

In February 2007, ScrewAttack started providing content including Peak Tens, Video Game Vault entries and episodes of Angry Video Game Nerd for GameTrailers. Shortly subsequently, Spike'due south Game Head also started to cooperate with GameTrailers.

On Jan 25, 2008, GameOne was replaced past GameTrailers Television, the rebranded version of Fasten TV's Game Caput, still hosted by Geoff Keighley, merely produced by GameTrailers and co-hosted past Amanda MacKay and Daniel Kayser. The show appeared at 12:30 AM on Spike every Thursday night.[7]

List of shows hosted by GameTrailers [edit]

Invisible Walls [edit]

Invisible Walls
Presentation
Hosted by Shane Satterfield
Marcus Beer
Ryan Stevens (episodes 239–284)
Genre Video gaming
Linguistic communication English
Updates Weekly (Fridays)
Length Approximately thirty–90 minutes
Product
Camera Rich Brownish
Video format MP4
Sound format MP3
No. of episodes 284 (excluding special episodes and other videos)
Publication
Original release March 14, 2008 – Jan 17, 2014
Provider GameTrailers
Website Invisible Walls on GameTrailers

Invisible Walls was a video web log-podcast created and hosted by editor-in-master Shane Satterfield and run by the staff of GameTrailers with freelance journalist Marcus Beer, who originally came to the show on a biweekly footing equally the ever-angry graphic symbol "Grumpy McGrump", every bit co-host. The podcast was eventually hosted by editorial director Ryan Stevens after Shane Satterfield left GameTrailers after Episode 238.[8] They were often joined past a rotating panel of GT editors including Justin Speer, Daniel Bloodworth, Michael Damiani, Patrick Morales, Chris Nguyen, and (formerly) Miguel Lopez. The testify'south debut episode was recorded on March 13, 2008, and published the following day.[nine] The podcast was a semi-circular table discussion show in which the GameTrailers staff members discussed various goings-on in the video game industry, including new video game releases and controversies.

The show underwent a couple of major overhauls throughout its run; for its 1-hundredth episode, the show introduced new visual graphics (including new avatars for the cast designed by iam8bit, a new intro also done with iam8bit, and a new logo) and stopped censoring profanities.[ten] On the testify'due south two-hundredth episode, which was streamed and recorded live for the milestone occasion, the show began recording with the hosts on-photographic camera and the hosts' avatars were no longer used,[11] although the hosts were seen recording on-camera for Episode 150 and had to tape themselves without being seen one last fourth dimension on Episode 201, due to not having cameras on hand at the 2012 Game Developers Conference and for the new Invisible Walls studio to be prepared.

The podcast concluded after publishing Episode 284 on January 17, 2014.[12] It was initially replaced by a short-lived bear witness chosen Cheers for Playing!, which lasted until Apr 25, 2014,[xiii] with a true concluding episode published on June 27, 2014.[fourteen] A afterwards revival podcast called GT Fourth dimension, which features some of the Invisible Walls regulars including Damiani and Bloodworth, debuted on March 14, 2014[15] (which was coincidentally the six-year ceremony of the debut episode of Invisible Walls) and lasted until February 2016.

Other shows [edit]

  • GT Countdown – A top ten listing of video games and video game-related subjects. Ended in Oct 2015.
  • GT Wish-List – A compilation of all things the GameTrailers squad wishes will exist in an upcoming game. Ordinarily the game has divulged very fiddling information about itself at the signal of the release of the wish-list, thus there is a lot of speculation as to what the game could exist.
  • Bonus Round * – A console show hosted by Geoff Keighley, typically featuring three guests who are some combination of game developers, industry journalists and/or industry financial experts. The evidence focuses not just on critical analysis of detail games but also on the procedure of game evolution (including technical and pattern innovation) as well every bit publishing, sales, marketing, and business organisation practices in the gaming industry. Ended in 2015.
  • The Last Bosman – A weekly show hosted past Kyle Bosman airing Wednesdays, where he talks about electric current gaming topics from his perspective with humorous quips. Concluded in 2016.
  • Trailer Score (previously known equally Let's All Go To The Trailers ) – A weekly show, in which Brandon Jones, Kyle Bosman and Daniel Bloodworth discuss and rate the newest video game trailers.
  • GT Time – A weekly podcast show hosted by Kyle Bosman, in which a console discuss the latest video game related news stories and make bets about what will happen during the side by side calendar week. Ended in February 2016.
  • Baddest Games – A weekly testify hosted by Rob Slusser, where he talks in an intentionally bad-mannered manner nigh video games that got bad reviews past the press and therefore were good in his opinion. According to his Twitter account, Slusser will no longer exist with GameTrailers in the wake of Defy Media acquiring the company.[16]
  • GT TV – An informative testify on the gaming industry and upcoming games hosted past Geoff Keighley.
  • GT Previews * – Previews of upcoming games.
  • Level * – A show where the GameTrailers squad talks about their favorite levels from their favorite games.
  • GT Reviews * – Reviews of various video games that are scored on a one.0 through ten.0 scale. As of their Dead Space 3 review in 2013, GameTrailers has stopped providing separate sub-scores and segments for different elements of a game (which used to include story [if necessary], design, gameplay, and presentation) in favor of more cinematic videos, and the people who reviewed the game and edited the video are now mentioned in the intro. As of February viii, 2016, Firewatch was the last video game reviewed on Gametrailers.
    • GT Review Pods – Shorter video reviews for independent, downloadable and/or lesser-known video games or game content (such as expansions). Later the 2012 revamp, the name was discontinued, simply the shorter reviews are still fabricated on a regular basis. Until 2013, these shorter reviews did not have different segments for the different elements of a game, just they nevertheless had the now-discontinued sub-scores.
  • Retrospectives – A history of the stories of video game franchises usually in multiple parts.
  • GT Popular-Block – A closer expect on game trailers showing the findings of GameTrailers staff in that specific trailer.
  • Anthology – A collection of the essential entries in the virtual library of video game greatness.
  • Angry Video Game Nerd – Video game review rants starring and created past James Rolfe from Cinemassacre Productions, nigh a frustrated video game reviewer who plays games from the 80s and 90s. In 2013, Rolfe decided to keep their evidence independently on YouTube and Cinemassacre.com.
  • Pach-Assault! * – A show hosted past fiscal analyst Michael Pachter where he answers questions submitted by GameTrailers users regarding the video game industry from a financial perspective. Concluded in July 2014 afterwards GameTrailers was acquired by Defy Media, in 2015, Patcher created a new show chosen Patcher Factor on YouTube channel.
  • Pop-Fiction – Brusque 5–10 minute episodes that centre around myths and urban legends in video games.
  • Timeline – An in-depth look into the chronology, history, and story progression of pop gaming franchises. But The Legend of Zelda and Kingdom Hearts have received this treatment.
  • Top 100 Trailers of All Time – A summit 100 inaugural list of the best video game trailers e'er made as determined past the GameTrailers staff, which ran throughout September 1 to October 8, 2011. The beginning four episodes focused on a score of various game trailers and the top 20 trailers each received their ain individual episode, all with commentary on each pick. Honorable mentions were besides displayed during the episodes and the concluding episode focused on the 10 video game trailers voted the best by GameTrailers viewers.
  • Annoyed Gamer – A now defunct show hosted by Marcus Beer, where he discusses polemic topics that can harm gamers as well as the industry. Ended in 2014.
  • Mandatory Update – A comedic prove on a weekly basis that's presenting the weekly news in humorous mode hosted by Elyse Willems and Isla Hinck. Before his firing, Rob Slusser served as a comic relief for the show in between bits. Occasionally the show is replaced by an hour long podcast known as Mandatory Update Nights. The show ended on February 6, 2016, 2 days before Gametrailers was close down, therefore Easy Allies revived the show on July 3, 2021.
  • Trailer Academy – A show hosted by founder Brandon Jones analyzing video game trailers and discussing what's making a good video game trailer.
  • GT News – A daily news evidence hosted by Andrea Rene featuring the latest headlines from across the video game industry. Ended in 2015.[17]
  • Huber Hype – Acclaimed hype enthusiast Michael Huber hits terminal velocity each calendar week in the pursuit of ultimate hype. In 2016, after GameTrailers was shut down, the show is succeeded by Huber Syndrome on Like shooting fish in a barrel Allies.
  • Ladies in the Lobby – This half dozen-part series provides a female perspective into gaming though a series of interviews with Elyse Willems, Andrea Rene, Stephanie Bayer, Mari Takahashi, Jessica Villarreal, and Nikole Zivalich.
  • Tabletop Adventures – Lailia Meliamne (Isla Hinck), Pervance Tosscobble (Elyse Willems), Andry Highhill (Kyle Bosman), and Hogger (Michael Huber) adventure through a devious and hilarious Dungeons & Dragons campaign prepared by Dungeon Master Ben Moore.
  • First Fifteen – Kyle Bosman and someone else play through the first fifteen minutes of a random video game.

^* Was as well available as a podcast.

See also [edit]

  • Easy Allies

References [edit]

  1. ^ "MTV Networks Acquires GameTrailers.com". Prnewswire.com. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved Dec 12, 2008.
  2. ^ "MTVN Entertainment Group Promotes Shane Satterfield to VP Content Fasten Digital Amusement « Spike Press". www.Spike.com . Retrieved Feb 3, 2018.
  3. ^ "MTVN ENTERTAINMENT GROUP PROMOTES BRAD WINTERS TO Full general Managing director OF GAMETRAILERS.COM". GameTrailers. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
  4. ^ Farokhmanesh, Megan (June 9, 2014). "GameTrailers, Addicting Games and Shockwave acquired by Defy Media". Polygon. Vox Media. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
  5. ^ Plante, Chris (June xiii, 2014). "Layoffs striking GameTrailers day after E3". Polygon. Vox Media. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
  6. ^ a b c Sarkar, Samit (May 17, 2016). "IGN acquires GameTrailers, volition maintain archive of all content (update)". Polygon . Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  7. ^ "GTTV Premiere – Tune In". Gametrailers.com. Retrieved Dec 12, 2008.
  8. ^ "Invisible Walls, Episode 239". GameTrailers. January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  9. ^ "Invisible Walls, Episode ane". GameTrailers. March 14, 2008. Retrieved Oct 29, 2012.
  10. ^ "Invisible Walls, Episode 100". GameTrailers. March 27, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
  11. ^ "Invisible Walls, Episode 200". GameTrailers. March 3, 2012. Retrieved July vii, 2012.
  12. ^ "Invisible Walls, Episode 284: Preparing to Die". GameTrailers. January 17, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
  13. ^ "Thanks for Playing – Video Game Discussions". GameTrailers. Jan 17, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
  14. ^ "Thanks for Playing! – Bloodbourne Once again". June 27, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
  15. ^ "GT Time: We're Podcasting Again!". GameTrailers. April 14, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
  16. ^ "Rob Slusser on Twitter". Twitter.
  17. ^ "GT News – YouTube". www.youtube.com . Retrieved June 6, 2016.

External links [edit]

  • Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameTrailers