Gamestah

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Gamestah, also referred to as Gamestah Radio, is an Australian shoutcasting and media organisation, best known for their role as the commentators of the 'Roffle Cup' segment of the Australian gaming television show, Good Game.[1][2] They have also covered many large electronic sports events such as World Cyber Games (both Singapore and Sydney) and Electronic Sports World Cup. The organisation is currently made up of more than 25 volunteers who use the SHOUTcast plugin for Winamp, developed by Nullsoft, to broadcast commentary of online computer game matches, as well as LAN events. Recently, Gamestah was interviewed by Good Game as well as Tektime Radio, a radio station dedicated to gaming news and interviews in Melbourne, Victoria.

History

Gamestah was formed in 2003, after Return to Castle Wolfenstein players with the game-names Russkie, Spot and D-FENZ wanted to begin a service for the Australian gaming community, to provide commentary of Return to Castle Wolfenstein matches that took place on gaming ladders such as GameArena and Netspace's Gamespace gaming ladder. Gamestah shoutcaster Stewart "Ej" Brumm revealed in an interview for TV show Good Game that "before Gamestah, shoutcasting in Australia was a very ad hoc thing."[3] Through time and resources provided by volunteers, Gamestah quickly became well-known through the communities which it had covered extensively. It became approved shoutcasters for GameArena in 2005, and became closely associated with GameArena and AusGamers, both run by Australian games software company Mammoth Media.

In 2008, Gamestah began providing videocasts of important matches as well as launching GTV-VOD, a video-on-demand service providing streaming video of its videocasts.

Toby "TobiWan" Dawson was involved with Gamestah in the beginning of his career.[4]

Covered Games

Gamestah focuses on first person shooters. The games that Gamestah cover include:

The group has also done some coverage of Racing Simulation Games, such as rFactor.

Featured Content

Aside from commentary of various online matches, Gamestah also provides some shows to fill up timeslots which are generally quiet:

The show like the other weekly formats covers mainly eSports related news, with a large focus on CyberGamer leagues and its ladders.

References

  1. Roffle Cup segment - Good Game - 19-Sep-06
  2. Roffle Cup segment - Good Game - 31-Oct-06
  3. Good Game interview - Good Game
  4. http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/26/9208657/valve-dota-2-commentator-toby-dawson-interview

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