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eznark said:
I would have been a couple months ago, but Tested has turned into nothing more than a great podcast really. Their video stuff is the very, very occasional review and an app of the day which is generally a game.

My guess: Norm is leaving, Will is moving to Giant Bomb, Tested will be enveloped by Giant Bomb (in other words, killed). Also, probably a ton of other stuff, but that's my Tested specific guess.

My hope is that they've decided to put some resources into Tested and make it awesome again.
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Yeah, thinking about it, I could totally see a site merge happening, with subsections on movies, technology, etc.

Only problem would be the wikis.
 
eznark said:
I would have been a couple months ago, but Tested has turned into nothing more than a great podcast really. Their video stuff is the very, very occasional review and an app of the day which is generally a game.

My guess: Norm is leaving, Will is moving to Giant Bomb, Tested will be enveloped by Giant Bomb (in other words, killed). Also, probably a ton of other stuff, but that's my Tested specific guess.

My hope is that they've decided to put some resources into Tested and make it awesome again.
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You're probably right if I had to guess. Tested has paltry content, and like I said, with The Verge taking all the air out of the room, it's probably a ridiculously hard position to try to compete with that.
 
lawblob said:
You're probably right if I had to guess. Tested has paltry content, and like I said, with The Verge taking all the air out of the room, it's probably a ridiculously hard position to try to compete with that.
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I think you're overstating the Verge, personally.
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
If it's a merger it should just be with Tested. Screened, AV and CV can get trashed happily.
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The advantage of a merge is that it would reduce the need for content on those subsites. So it would actually be saving them.

I really think this is what's going to happen now. Makes too much sense.
 
Patryn said:
The advantage of a merge is that it would reduce the need for content on those subsites. So it would actually be saving them.

I really think this is what's going to happen now. Makes too much sense.
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Probably. They need a way to filter out content if that's what is happening, though. I want my front page to be 90% GB, 10% Tested and nothing else.
 
I think any merge would be Giant Bomb, Tested and Screened. AV is pretty much its own thing run by the fans at this point, and I don't know what's up with CV, but sounds like its carved its own niche as well.
 
Whatever it is, it's good news according to them and one thing WM has never done to it's fans is mislead or spin anything to them.
 
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Gowans007 said:
Whatever it is, it's good news according to them and one thing WM has never done to it's fans is mislead or spin anything to them.
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A merge wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. It would allow the staffs to easily write content for all three sites without it seeming weird. Would also mean that the lack of content complaints might go away as you now have larger staff producing content for one site as opposed to three.
 
http://kotaku.com/5893416/peter-mol...cipants-and-maybe-even-peter-molyneux-himself

This sounds like it might be it.

The whole thing started yesterday when Double Fine programmer Anna Kipnis tweeted that someone should really get on organizing a game jam centered around the crazy ideas espoused by famed game programmer Peter Molyneux's satirical twitter doppelganger Peter Molydeux.

In a matter of hours, it became clear that there was enough enthusiasm for the idea to make it into a real thing—and so, it's happening. Kipnis, along with organizers from Giant Bomb, Game Developer Magazine, Idle Thumbs, and the New York game space Babycastles, have all teamed up to sponsor and organize the jam, which will take place over two days, March 31st and April 1st.
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