10 PRINT (”Hello World”); [Vertical]
June 9, 2008 by William Stapleton
Welcome to the first issue of Playedtodeath, Oklahoma’s premier video gaming news venue.
We’re glad you picked us up and we know you’ll look forward to fresh newsprint every month, as well as daily industry and cultural updates on our interactive website. Each month we’ll talk about the things that are important to gamers: reviews of new games and gaming systems, features that focus on your unique lifestyle - including the cooler places to hang when you’re not leveling up - and straight talk about the products that you find interesting (your phone does what?)
To make sure we provide the very best in computer gaming news, we’ve assembled an international staff of writers who bring years of computer gaming experience to the keyboard. Our people know the movers and shakers in the industry personally, and we don’t cut corners when it comes to bringing you the latest stories: when Kaz Hirai keynotes the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, we’ll be in the audience mentally translating yen to dollars and wondering how many people can legally share a sleeping tube. When a new energy drink is introduced in OKC, we’ll be there to guzzle a freshly-minted can and crush the empty against our foreheads (or better, our friend’s forehead). When Nintendo or Sony or NCsoft rolls out a new release, our reviewers will literally play it to death, to give you the best info to use in deciding how to spend your gaming dollars - that’s our promise to you.
And we want you to participate in this adventure, too - by giving us honest feedback on the reviews and articles you read on these pages. If your thinking is concise and your analysis piercing, we might even print your emails in our Forum feature (spelling and sentence structure is important - we hope you didn’t stop paying attention in fifth grade). Let us know about gaming-related events for our monthly activities calendar, like the LAN party you have planned in the basement of your sister’s cousin’s daughter’s house - who knows, we might show up and bring door prizes (generally expired pizza coupons and stuff like that). Playedtodeath will occasionally even be news (as opposed to reporting it), when we sponsor the biggest LAN party in the state of Oklahoma later this year (keep your schedule clear during Fall Break). And every month, you’ll have a chance to win cool stuff (with very little effort on your part).
In short, we’re going to make every effort to be that computer gaming newspaper that you always wished (at least since last Thursday) you could read while you were waiting for a Saturday night table in Bricktown.
So, enjoy - and keep doing that thing you do with the PS3 controller!
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This article was the introduction in the first issue of the printed version of the PTD tabloid in Oklahoma City. We printed 5000 copies that we distributed to various venues in town. This photo is is of the canal that runs through Bricktown in downtown Oklahoma City.