games and things
The Gamerscores for Friday 23rd January can be grabbed from here enjoy!
skipypurplehead has gained the most gamerscore this week, with a 960 increase since the last update on the 16th of January.
Cleaned up and updated some of the site links over on the right, added the Rebel FM and The Geekbox podcasts, along with Area5.TV and Casuallyhardcore.net – Check them out.
Have a good weekend 
First up, here’s a link to the full blog post over at the Joypod site, but in short Joypod will be doing a live video game phone-in show for Play Radio UK, starting starting next week. To quote the blog post:
”Tommy Boyd (once children’s TV presenter now radio talk show host) has approached Joypod and asked us to do a live video game phone in show for Play Radio UK starting 8:00pm Thursday 29th January.”
Excellent news! Full details on what this means are over at Joypod, check it out. While your at it, follow the Joypod twitter for the latest info.
Nice work fellas
The former production team behind The 1UP Show, have today today launched AREA5 and the first episode of their own new series called Co-op.
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There is a Youtube channel to subscribe to, along with a downloadable version at http://vimeo.com/2904657 (requires an account)
This is the 3rd project to get off the ground by former 1Up employees in the last few weeks, following the layoffs after UGO’s purchase of 1UP.com. Rebel FM and The GeekBox are both podcasts from the former employees.
Check out my previous post on games industry people using Twitter, to follow the Ex 1Up people and keep up to date with what they are up too.
The comedy expert Iain Lee is on this weeks One Life Left! Excellent stuff
Iain Lee!
EDIT – Noticed One Life Left is now on Twitter, so get it added people. Have added it to my earlier post on gaming people, podcasts and sites on Twitter.