1UP Yours

Infobox Podcast
title = 1UP Yours


caption =
host = Garnett Lee
Shane Bettenhausen
John Davison
Andrew "Skip" Pfister
url = [http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3149993 1Up Network]
rss = [http://feeds.feedburner.com/1up/podcast RSS Feed]
status = weekly
audio format = MP3
began = January 2006
ended =
genre = Video Gaming
ratings =
length = 2 hours
network = 1UP Radio Network

(distributed through download and iTunes)

1UP Yours is a weekly gaming podcast released every Friday. It is part of the 1UP Radio Network.

History

1UP Yours is a weekly podcast show that takes the form of a discussion among several editors from the 1UP network. The radio show began October 21, 2005 as a weekly news show hosted by Jane Pinckard.

As with The 1UP Show, the 1UP Yours podcast has gradually become a more complex and organized radio show. Topics of the podcast include press announcements, news from gaming conferences, and discussion of game design. In its current form, the show is hosted by Garnett Lee. Shane Bettenhausen, Andrew "Skip" Pfister, and Phil Kollar are the other regulars, and John Davison and Shawn Elliott are the most frequent guests.

In the case of the show being short one or more members (most often due to one of the members having left the show), the show will feature guests to fill the fourth spot, usually with other writers and editors from the 1Up Network. The podcast is recorded and edited by Andrew "Skip" Pfister.

The initial four-man lineup included Lee and Bettenhausen, as well as Luke Smith and John Davison. However, Smith later left the network to accept a position at the then-Microsoft game development studio Bungie. [http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/24/luke-smith-leaves-1up-to-be-master-chiefs-poolboy/] On August 24, 2007, Mark MacDonald was declared the show's official "fourth chair" member. John Davison then announced that he was leaving the 1UP staff [http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/22/bail-out-john-davison-leaves-ziff-davis-media-to-form-new-compa/] , though he would continue his participation with the podcast despite his change in career. [http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/26/pax-07-1up-yours-podcast-still-johns/] On the October 19th episode, Mark MacDonald announced he would be leaving the show. On the February 1st, 2008 episode, it was announced that GFW editor Shawn Elliott would be filling MacDonald's now-vacant hosting duties. Bryan Intihar was confirmed as the third chair on the January 18th episode of 2008, but left the show shortly after on March 7 after he took a job with developer Insomniac.

As of June 7, 2008, the show has confirmed long time producer Andrew Pfister as the third chair with Shane and Garnett in their regular duties, along with John Davison as periodic guest.

Format

Generally, the program begins with "Whatcha been playing?", in which the editors discuss games they are currently playing for fun or, as is more often the case, games they are either reviewing or are previewing.

The second portion of the podcast will typically begin with a report on some of the recent activity on the 1UP message boards. This segment is followed by a more focused feature, which may include a more in-depth discussion on a particular topic (such as reactions to new system launches or the concept of micro-transactions in games) or quasi-regular features such as the Four-Minute Warning, during which the hosts are presented with several gaming-related questions submitted by listeners; they are then given four minutes to discuss. Once the four minutes are up, they move on to the next question.

The third segment reviews the news from the past week, complete with reactions from the editors after each topic is brought up. Occasionally, guests from the industry, including Cliff Bleszinski and Mark Rein from Epic Games, Ted Price from Insomniac Games, Dennis Dyack from Silicon Knights, and Lorne Lanning creator of the Oddworld series will visit the show to discuss their various products or just participate in the program itself. The podcast usually lasts about two hours, and is recorded on Thursdays, with the podcast publishing every Friday.

Lineup

Beginning in January 2006, Garnett Lee took the reigns of the main 1UP podcast, with Andrew Pfister as the producer. It was renamed from "This Week at 1UP" to 1UP Yours. After a few shows, John Davison, then Editorial Director of the 1UP network, joined Garnett as Co-Host. Each week guests would join Garnett and John.

In April 2006 the new 1UP News Editor Luke Smith joined as well as Shane Bettanhausen, the first show the four did together was well received and became the permanent line-up. During this period John Davison would do the message board segment and Luke would handle the news segment. Mark MacDonald was the special fill-in chair if one of the four could not be there.

After April 2007, Luke Smith left 1UP to join Bungie as community manager. Mark MacDonald took the newly opened fourth chair. Mark left shortly after. John then left a few weeks later to create What They Play. Soon afterward, Bryan Intihar joined and Shawn Elliott from Games for Windows Magazine and GFW Radio joined a few weeks later. After a short stay on 1UP Yours Bryan Intihar left 1UP to join Insomniac Games to work as community manager for Resistance 2.

On the June 7, 2008 Garnett announced that Shawn Elliott had left 1UP Yours to become exclusive to GFW Radio due to workload and schedule issues. It was also announced that long time producer Andrew Pfister would join the cast in a speaking role, with John Davison returning permanently after a few guest appearances.

References

External links

* [http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3149993 List of available episodes]
* [http://1upyours-blog.1up.com/ 1UP Yours blog]