NextGen Player

NextGen Player

URL	http://www.nextgenplayer.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Gaming & Blogging
Owner	Paul Hunter and Andrew Shin
Created by	Paul Hunter, Andrew Shin and Matthew Vernhout
Launched	April 2008
Current status	Active

NextGen Player is a Canadian-based gaming news website, blog, and monthly podcasting site. NextGen Player covers the Canadian video game news, coverage of live Canadian gaming events, video game previews and reviews, highlights of Canadian game promotions and retail sales, as well as coverage of Canadian game sales data and research. NextGen Player was founded in April 2008 by Paul Hunter and Andrew Shin.^[1]

History

The site was Canada's first gaming news website devoted almost exclusively to covering national gaming news. According to Alexa's traffic ranking, NextGen Player is a top 20,000 website in Canada.^[2] The first blog post went live on the website on April 23, 2008.^[3] The blog's creators, intended that the site would be "Canada's leading video game blog and the number 1 news source for Canadian gaming news."^[4]

NextGen Player has been recognized by the 2008 Canadian Blog Awards as a finalist in the Best New Blog category.^[5]

Articles first appearing on NextGen Player have been referenced on news websites including Kotaku,^[6] U.S. News,^[7] GameSpy,^[8] Destructoid,^[9] MaxConsole,^[10] and VG247.^[11] The site's writers have also been interviewed in The Georgia Straight,^[12] and The Globe and Mail,^[13] among others.

In May 2009, one of the site's founder, Paul Hunter, became a staff writer at Future Shop, Canada's largest consumer electronics retailer, for their Tech Blog.^[14] NextGen Player features blog articles also published on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

Site editors

• Active staff
  • Managing Editor/Co-Founder: Paul Hunter
  • Managing Editor/Co-Founder: Andrew Shin
  • Writer: Clinton Ma
  • Contributor: Alice Stancu
• Former Staff
  • Managing Editor/Co-Founder: Matthew Vernhout (April 2008 – March 2009)
  • Senior Writer: Andrew Green (June 2008 – October 2009)

Sections of site

Blog is the main section of NextGen Player where the daily posts appear. New post appear at the top of the website and bump down earlier posts. The main site always displays the most recent posts.

Podcast' is called "In The Raw". The monthly podcast features discussion of Canadian gaming news, general gaming discussions, and industry interviews.

About NextGen Player is where the mission statement of the website is found as well as bios of the staff members.

NGP in the news is a section listing websites that have featured NextGen Player news. All news items listed are in chronological order. This section is updated monthly.

The Hot Zone is a section that lists popular articles that appeared in the blog section of the website. There are always five posts mentioned in The Hot Zone.

References

1. ^ http://www.nextgenplayer.com/2008/04/about-nextgen-player.html
2. ^ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nextgenplayer.com
3. ^ http://www.nextgenplayer.com/2008/04/best-buy-canada-hosts-raid-gone-wrong.html
4. ^ http://www.nextgenplayer.com/2008/0about-nextgen-player.html
5. ^ http://cdnba.wordpress.com/finalists/finalists-and-winners-2008/
6. ^ http://kotaku.com/5038194/eb-canada-offers-hazy-force-unleashed-buyback-guarantee
7. ^ http://www.usnews.com/blogs/daves-download/2008/12/11/sony-opens-playstation-home-virtual-world.html
8. ^ http://planetgearsofwar.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=156679
9. ^ http://www.destructoid.com/rumortoid-silicon-knights-making-sirens-in-the-maelstrom-141371.phtml
10. ^ http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=32302
11. ^ http://www.vg247.com/2009/07/25/silicon-knights-project-revealed-through-canadian-cultural-agency/
12. ^ http://www.straight.com/article-237247/eas-fight-night-round-4-pulls-no-punches
13. ^ http://www.nextgenplayer.com/2009/08/ngp-contributor-quoted-in-globe-and.html
14. ^ http://www.futureshopforums.ca/t5/Tech-Blog/Press-Start-A-Personal-Introduction-From-Paul-Hunter/ba-p/151810#M5

External links

• Nextgenplayer.com