Category Archives: Announcements

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on here, so I thought it’s about time I explained what’s going on.

Christmas has been a hectic period for me, what with working endless hours and trying to finish University assignments, I haven’t had a great deal of time to submit any articles on here. However, not all is lost. Due to working bank holidays and my new friends over at PartyPoker.com, Gamebit will have some new equipment to use on future Podcasts. That means no more Shy Ronnie and ear-bleeding BOOMS! Well, maybe I lied a little, I may still shout for no apparent reason.

Anyway, keep checking the website for new reviews, articles and eventually a brand-spanking new Podcast.

Alex Matless
Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief

On behalf of the Gamebit team, I’d like to wish you and yours a very merry Christmas. I hope your peeps stuff their faces with as much turkey as the Gamebit team will be doing this festive season.

On a similar note, I’d like to thank you all for supporting Gamebit in the six months since our launch. Gamebit has gone from strength to strength since our launch on June 20th, 2011, and we couldn’t have done it without you, the readers and listeners.

Gamebit’s now on a (very brief) Christmas break: Normal service will resume on December 27th, with a Podcast coming soon (we promise).

Thanks for reading, and I hope you can join us in 2012.

Avery Penn, Managing Editor

This is a bit of an odd one. In a prelude to the Tokyo Game Show, where bitter rivals Sony will be announcing 18 new titles for the not-even-released-yet PlayStation Vita, Nintendo has called members of the press and analysts to a conference in Tokyo, where it’s rumoured they’ll announce a new version of the Nintendo 3DS – perhaps with another analog nub, a lesser emphasis on glasses-free 3D and even a new name.

So, just what has Nintendo President Satoru Iwata got up his sleeve? You’ll be able to find out live, as our ever-reliable, ever-caffeinated Editor-in-Chief Alex Matless (and possibly yours truly) stays up into the early hours to cover the press conference live. Let’s just hope the UStream audio is in English, eh?

Click here to go to the Liveblog’s website.

Hello there! I thought it would be best to kick off Gamebit’s return to standard form by updating you all on a few things.

Apologies
Firstly, I’d like to sincerely apologise for our lack of content beyond sporadic updates on Gamebit’s new office (more on that in the next paragraph). At Gamebit, content is king, and we admit that we’ve dropped the ball for the last couple of weeks. Starting this weekend, we’re going to be publishing the content our contributors have been working on for the last week or so, and we should be back to normal by the middle of next week. If you’ve been holding on for new content, thank you so much for your patience, and apologies for having to wait so long.

Gamebit Moves In
Today, after two weeks of wallpaper stripping, painting, wallpapering and heavy lifting, Gamebit’s editor-in-chief, the impeccable Alex Matless, and his awesome girlfriend (who we’ve thanked many times in Podcasts) have moved into their new home. The study in this new place is officially Gamebit Towers, and is being given a shot of the old décor (Items debated this week included Godzilla curtains, Aperture Science posters and a framed photo of either Kevin Butler or Jack Tretton). Expect to see final pictures on Gamebit’s Facebook page very soon – go like it, folks.

We’re back!
With the moving of Gamebit Towers finally complete, it gives me great pleasure to announce the return of the now very delayed Gamebit Podcast: we’re recording this Tuesday (that’s September 6th, for those keeping score), and, as I start school again the very next day, you can expect it to be up late in the evening on the same day. iTunes and RSS subscribers, stay tuned.

I should also add that our Expo Season coverage has been somewhat underwhelming; again, this is part of the aforementioned ball-dropping, and will be returning to normal very, very soon. Most of what we talk about in the podcast will be Expo Season related, though we won’t be heavily touching on PAX. For that, I recommend you take the time out to read noted American Gamebit interviewee Sam Machkovech’s whopping 3,600-word write-up on America’s biggest community-powered gaming expo. We’ll have more announcements involving future coverage of Expo Season-related content in the latest Podcast.

A thousand thank yous
At its core, Gamebit is comprised of two things: its content, which Alex, Chris, James, Josh, Tom, Simon (he’s new, by the way) and myself take pride in, and  its readers – you, basically. Without you, this whole thing really wouldn’t have much of a point. I won’t bore you with metrics, but Gamebit is growing steadily, and we can’t thank you enough. As we venture into Autumn, I hope you’ll find our content interesting, engaging, and, more importantly, entertaining.

Thank you all for making the team’s crazy two-month ride worthwile. As we move forward, we promise we won’t let you down.

Avery Penn
Managing Editor
Gamebit