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Tuesday
Mar172009

CO-OP 0102 -- Selling Ourselves -- Resident Evil 5 & Halo Wars


So as it turns out, "Tuesdays" in Revision3 terms means midnight. Midnight Eastern Standard Time. Which means I should really have these blog posts ready before then. Oops!

It's only our second show and I already feel like this we're on the craziest ride of our lives. No numbers are in yet, but we've received a pretty incredible response overall from all the sources we been egomaniacally monitoring since the premier went live last week. We hit the front page of Digg, top slots in iTunes for every version of the podcast feed and Forbes told us that the feature on CO-OP and Revision3 was their highest rated story online for several days last week--which is unheard of in regards to their usual audience. Not a bad way to start out the season!

This week we start out with Halo Wars. Dan "Shoe" Hsu, Patrick Klepek, and Anthony Gallegos are the guests and Area 5 is represented by Jay-to-the-Fresh.

Resident Evil 5 shouldn't be a big surprise to anyone out there that's followed our work in the past. A fantastic game with a few compromises wisely instigated to address a fully co-op experience, GameSpy's Sterling McGarvey finished it single-player style while Ryan and I played through it co-op (shocking, I know!) so we could compare notes.

And any new company, of course, must sell itself in order to expand it's brand identity. This was the task set forth for Jason, Rob, and Cesar this week and boy did they...um...deliver?

Reader Comments (63)

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March 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterUntota

^^^^ try and rework that one into some sort of constructive critique mr Chandronait.

March 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterChurchy

nicely done- nothing else to say other than i liked it.

March 20, 2009 | Unregistered Commentergentry

great work! loved how creative you got on the squarespace ad, i would like to see something like this for the godaddy and netflix ad since the voice over plainly sucks, aside from that awesome episode.

March 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAntonio Checa

This episode had serious balls.

March 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAlexD

Who was playing the halo wars video? I saw that spartan 42 was named Douglas. Long live DNA!

March 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJohn

Great frakin episode. the "selling ourselves" bits were spot on, in commentary and in the ironic sarcastic production.
LOVE you man(s).
keep the steam rolling.

March 21, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterdustin micheal perez

Hey guys, I just wanted to say hello. I was a HUGE fan of The 1UP Show and was devastated when it all went away. I just found out today that you guys are back! I can't tell you how excited and happy I am about this. I've only watched the "Introducing the Band" episode so far and it's so awesome to see you guys producing the same quality videos as before. Seriously, I can't express enough how happy I am about area5.tv.

Thanks for the great work and I look forward to going back and watching every episode I've missed!!!!

March 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJohn Cruz

God Damnit this is a GREAT fucking episode

except Klepek in the half-shirt and short-shorts, THAT I could have lived without...

March 22, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterPojomofo

This was by far the best episode yet. In fact, I think it was even better than any episode of the 1UP show.

March 22, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAJ Jenkins

LOVE the show very much guys. Seems like you are getting funnier post 1up. :) The appearance by Patrick Klepek was my personal favorite! Can't wait to watch the rest of the episodes & glad you guys got some sponsors. :)

March 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterHeather

was definitely terrified when they said "guys playing with each other" and then jay added "grabbing by the balls"

haha. great episode. completely agree with all that was said about RE5.

March 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTrent

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