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Nextlander is Vinny Caravella, Brad Shoemaker, and Alex Navarro. They’ve been making things for a while. Vinny got his start in production doing video editing for TV and online, but moved into the world of video games coverage at GameSpot in 2006. He helped launch Giant Bomb as its head of production and Executive Producer in 2008. In addition to creating countless hours of video and audio content during that time, he also founded Giant Bomb East with Alex Navarro, hosted the Giant Beastcast, and managed a team of amazing and talented editors and producers. Vinny is partial to games with a strong narrative and has a fondness for traditional point-and-click adventure games. He is also fascinated by FMV games, factory-building games, and open world romps. Outside of video games, you can find Vinny adding to his board game collection, painting miniatures, dabbling in electronics, and trying to be a woodworker. Brad Shoemaker skipped his high school graduation to go to his first E3, and then later skipped his college graduation to go to another E3. He lived and breathed PC and video games throughout his youth, until he was assigned his first freelance game review in 1999, at which point he also started earning his living covering games, the people who make them, and the wild and woolly industry that ties them all together. After five years at GameSpot spent traveling the globe, he helped start up Giant Bomb in 2008 and steer its games coverage in a rapidly evolving Internet landscape. Brad is interested in just about every type of game–and especially the technical and design aspects that drive them–with a particular focus these days on sprawling, systems-driven, sandbox-ish open worlds. On the work side, in recent years his greatest joy is devising novel solutions to common problems by harnessing esoteric and cutting-edge video and communications tools. Alex Navarro has been writing about and covering games since the tender age of 19, when he got his first freelance gig reviewing terrible PC games for CNET Game Center. After serving for years as GameSpot’s reviews editor, and brief forays into the world of game development, he spent ten years working for Giant Bomb as an on-camera personality, writer, and organizer for the site’s E3 talk shows and Game of the Year coverage. Alex will play just about anything, but holds a particular fondness for music/rhythm games, big stupid open world experiences, truck simulators of various regional specificities, and turn-based strategy titles. He also likes wrestling and sports games, and wishes those genres would stop causing him such mental distress year after year. Supporters of Nextlander on xtravas_mortis_2000’a Twitch channel will have their names listed as supporters on a special Supporters page on the official podcast website. Supporters of this channel will have access to an exclusive Discord community with a new supporter-only channel and an invitation to a weekly private livestream one hour before the main podcast goes live. Supporters at the $4+ level will have access to a weekly podcast tradition launching in 2019 where Vinny, Brad, and Alex play a retro game together. Vinny and Brad will play the consoles, while Alex will play on the PC. In addition, supporters will have access to weekly “bonus” podcasts that may feature small gaming talk fixes, special guest appearances, and other small surprises.

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