The Gamer Scene calls time on podcasts, forum and website
December 24, 2010 
The founding member of the Unified Gamers Network, The Gamer Scene, will be shutting down come 1st January 2011. The annoucement comes after activity on The Gamer Scene forums has seen its numbers dwindling and various life commitements have meant the podcast ‘The Scenecast’ has been more erratic than usual.
The site owner paid tribute to the hard-working nature of his co-hosts, Dits Symeou and Paul Rooney, in keeping the podcast going after the birth of his son earlier in the year. The monthly Replay show – which is a retrospective look at videogames from earlier in this console generation – will continue in a new form somewhere else.
Why is this newsworthy? Well, small independent websites like this are the lifeblood of videogaming as a hobby. They are financed and run all because their owners LOVE videogames and LOVE talking about them and being part of a community.
Setting up a site and creating a community of like-minded gamers is a damn hard job and doing it for nothing can be incredibly thankless as well as beautifully rewarding. So kudos to those guys for taking the Cranky Gamers into more interesting and eclectic territory with The Gamer Scene.
We wish everyone associated with the site good luck in their new endeavours and I raise a personal glass of alcoholic pain to Fly, Dits, Silent, Xantiriad and anyone else associated with the site.
Sniff.
Comments
Its listener numbers were falling way before the birth of the hosts child. 90% of the its forums posts were made up hosts, co-hosts, site writers, moderators and ‘helpers’.
Actual active listener and poster numbers to the forum were pitiful so its probably a good thing the site has been pulled.
Kudos for discovering nobody outside the TGS clique actually gave a shit and listened.
Cranky Gamers – 199 episodes and going strong today.
It’s tough out there for indie sites – especially if they try and do it all, rather than concentrate on one thing (be that a platform, genre, attitude or media). But indie sites are where you find real opinion and genuine passion about gaming. If anyone wants to start a gaming site, is struggling with their existing site or just wants some free advice then The Games Tribe (http://thegamestribe.com/about) is here for you.
The Gamer Scene re-opened with the original teams blessing about 6 months ago. Well worth a welcome post