So we're taking a bit more time to get ready, or should I say we've been given some more time to get the show ready. What could take so long you ask? Truth is we've been in production rehearsals for the past two weeks, expecting today to be the day up until late last week. We've actually done internal tests of the show and have more than a few episodes that I'd love to share, especially with all you GSLive union members, I'd love to hear what you guys think. Alright, I better get back to work, I'll see if I can smuggle you out a test episode, or some behind the scenes action. In the meantime, well be live this Friday with a Halo Wars marathon at 4:00pm PST. Maybe they'll let me show some of the show then, I'll check and see.

Ryan

Another late night working on the new show, we're one day closer to getting this thing started and I can't wait. I think you're going to really like what we're going to be coming back with. The new format really pushes the point of what we had in mind when we first created the show four and a half years ago. If you were around then, Let's GameSpot was the weekly show we had back then. Rich had joined us and took over the reigns of producing Let's GameSpot and made it a show all his own. I was crazy about the idea of live streaming video, being able to be plug a camera and game system in and show people what we were seeing in real time from anywhere that had an internet connection. That to me was the greatest invention ever; it'd be like being able to take the entire GameSpot audience with us when we went to visit someone that wanted to show their new games. If you saw the first episode of On the Spot, then you know we did exactly that. Our first episode was from EA's Tiburon Studio in Florida, where we gave a tour of the studio and showed demos of a bunch of their games. Little known fact, we managed to do that entire episode with four people, Rich, Dave Toole, Ricardo Torres and myself.

Things have changed in four and half years and it felt time for us to change the show. We wanted to build a better way to get the latest information, demos, and fun over to you. So we thought about it, a lot, looked at tons of your comments, thought some more, then decided on a course that will see the new show hit before the end of the month.

If you think it's been taking awhile, I guess it's because it has. We're serious about building a show that is going to be the most informative, helpful, and fun thing we've done. It'll be a constant learning experience for us and I hope you share your comments and let us know what you think. After all this is a show we're building for you really, were just lucky enough to be the guys crazy about games that get to do it. I'll post some video from the studio so you get a sneak peak as we get closer. I need to eat some tater TOTS and get to bed, until next time good night ya'll!

I hate being sick. I started getting sick Tuesday evening, got through Wednesday, but that night I got the full on chills, aches, and everything.

It took till Friday morning for everyone in the whole house to get sick. Now I am playing nurse for everyone else. This morning I started looking through some old boxes looking for pictures to scan in, one of the things I found was an old box of video game magazines. I started thumbing through the old mags, found a ton of the old previews, reviews, event coverage, and guides I used to write for Game Informer and EGM2. The two page Atari Jaguar preview spread I wrote is especially choice as you can imagine. Even found some old video from back then, thinking about doing a video blog and slipping some of that action in there, could maybe sneak in some new On the Spot (its almost ready) stuff in there.

For now I've got to go feed sick people! I'll check back later!

Ryan