GamersCast March Preview: A record breaking download month!

You guys never cease to amaze me. Last month, I was in shock about how many downloads we had, as we had just hit our 10,000+ download milestone at the time. But last month was nothing compared to the immense support you guys showed us this month. In February 2007 alone, you guys have now more than TRIPLED our previous download record, which was set just last month, especially considering it's the shortest month of the year! So, once again for setting another download record I would like to thank you all for supporting the podcast!

Since you guys have been showing so much support, I'm gonna let you guys in on a few things we have planned for the podcast.

This weekend we are planning on recording episode 20 of GamersCast, so be sure to look for that on the feed soon. We are also looking into our budgets to get ideas on how to give the podcast a few upgrades. The final design for the website is coming along great, and it should be launching early on this summer. We also may tentatively be going to this year's E3!

Our video game tournaments may be considered "dead" to some, but we have been re-doing the entire interface for that, so we will be able to get those up and running fairly soon as well.

Around the holidays, I decided that my New Years resolution for the podcast would be to get at least one thing on the feed every 10 days. In 2006, like Nintendo, there were huge droughts on the feed. We're going to make sure that doesn't happen again. And if for some reason it does get past 10 days (don't plan on it), you can expect to be bombarded with loads of content afterwards!

And of course, we have loads of reviews being planned for March, including reviews of:

- God of War II
- Excite Truck
- Sonic and The Secret Rings
- Mario Party 8
- Diddy Kong Racing DS
- Wii Sports
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past (Virtual Console)
- Legend of Zelda (Virtual Console)
- Excitebike (Virtual Console)
- World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
- Kirby's Adventure (Virtual Console)
- Kid Icarus (Virtual Console)
- Star Fox 64 (Virtual Console)
- Donkey Kong Country (Virtual Console)
- Super Mario World (Virtual Console)
- Super Mario Brothers (Virtual Console)
- And other possible Virtual Console releases!

Yes, I know some of these games I said were going to be reviewed in February, but we got really busy, but hey you also got a lot of reviews we weren't expecting to put up, also! I mean, we gave you a review of Crackdown, when I never said anything about that. We're also going to be covering loads of other stuff this month as well! So once again guys, thanks so much for supporting the show!

Oh yeah, and we're also gonna try and find a fix for the problem Wii users are having with the newsletter.

Crackdown Review

The highly anticipated free roaming game with a free Halo 3 BETA included!

Mario Kart 64 (Virtual Console) Review

The legendary racer returns for the VC! How could could you screw up an emulation?

Wii Play Video Review

It's Matt's video review of Wii Play. It's seperate from Adam's audio review






Adam's Score: 7.2 out of 10

Matt's Score: 7.0 out of 10

Wii Play Review

A review by Adam Shear on the only Wii game bundled with a Wii Remote.

Matthew's Video Review is coming soon!

Gunstar Heroes Review

One of the best and most explosive games on the Virtual Console to-date! Literally, it's a bit TOO explosive!

VIDEO REVIEW COMING SOON!

Sonic The Hedgehog Video Review

Here's my video review of Sonic The Hedgehog for the Wii Virtual Console. The audio only review can be found two posts below this one.




Final Score: 8.2 out of 10

Red Steel Review

One of the most hyped-up games for the Wii, naturally became an instant best-seller, 2nd only to Twilight Princess. But this game shows that just because it sells well, doesn't mean its good.




Final Score: 5.5 out of 10

Sonic The Hedgehog Review

It's yet another emulated version of the classic Genesis game!

VIDEO REVIEW COMING SOON!




Final Score: 8.2 out of 10

Vortex Review

It's a review of yet another recreation of Pong, but this time it comes for the iPod! We already have Brick on their free, so do we really need another version of it?







Final Score: 7.9 out of 10

February GamersCast Preview

UPDATE: Also, now that the release date has been revealed you can expect a review of Sonic and The Secret Rings for the Nintendo Wii, either in late February or early April.

UPDATE 2:Well, I just downloaded 2 new Virtual Console games today, so you can also be expecting reviews of Kirby's Adventure and Kid Icarus fairly soon.

UPDATE 3: Well, the good news is, I just downloaded Donkey Kong Country. The bad news is, I'm down to 400 Wii Points. Expect the review of Donkey Kong Country, sometime in early March.


Well, guys, it happened. This January the GamersCast feed hit a record high number of downloads! To be honest I didn't expect that to happen until E3 this year, since May of 2006 is the only other month that's even close to this January's amount. So, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you guys for all supporting the podcast, we couldn't have it this milestone without you guys, and we hope you will all continue to download and support the show. It looks like 2007 is gonna be one heck of a year for GamersCast!

In February expect game reviews of:

- Diddy Kong Racing DS
- Super Mario World (Virtual Console)
- Super Mario Brothers (Virtual Console)
- Vortex for iPod
- The Legend of Zelda (Virtual Console)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past (Virtual Console)
- Wii Play
- Red Steel
- Wii Sports
- World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions (Wii)
- Excite Truck
- Sonic The Hedgehog (Virtual Console)
- Gunstar Heroes (Virtual Console)
- Donkey Kong Jr. (Virtual Console)
- Along with other February Virtual Console Releases!!

(I heard rumors of Donkey Kong Country, Star Fox 64, and Super Mario RPG coming out too, but I'm not sure if that's February)


In February we'll also have Episode 20 of GamersCast up and recorded (possibly episode 21 also, and maybe some mobile edition episodes).

In February, I'm also gonna be re-doing some things to the site, but I don't wanna ruin any of the other things I've got up my sleeve.

So, really the purpose of this post was to thank you guys for supporting us, so... THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, in case you haven't noticed I fixed the video of the Wii Launch Vid. It ain't anything all too special, since I couldn't get back in once Reggie got there, but it's still worth downloading (I think....)

And thanks again guys!