By Nicholas Velillari | Observer Contributor
Mount student, Joshua Needham, runs a youtube channel and gaming website, yeahdudegamers, that focuses on video game commentaries, “let’s play’s”, and video game reviews.
Yeahdudegamers, primarily focuses on story driven and survival horror games like Tales of Graces, and Fatal Frame, but Needham states they cover “pretty much all games.”
Needham and a few of his friends started the YouTube channel around Halloween of 2014. He states how he and his friends had a passion for playing all sorts of games. “We were just having fun” stated Needham, so they decided, “we should make a YouTube channel and put random stuff on it,” and that’s how it all began.
As a result of the YouTube channel, yeahdudegamers expanded and created their own website (yeahdudegamers.com). The site is set up much like other popular video game media outlets, like IGN and GameSpot. They focus on video game reviews, news, and even promote their own magazine, Health and Mana. However, Needham states that the website is currently going through, “massive reconstruction” in the way of its presentation.
Needham got the urge to create the website after taking web design with wordpress with Team TreeHouse. He initially signed up for a major in CIS at the Mount, but it didn’t have the courses he wanted in order to make the site.
Yeahdudegamers also do live video streams on Twitch. They mainly focus on games made for consoles. Needham states that doing live streaming with all the equipment can get “pricey, but not all at once.”
Making videos and doing live streams can be tedious for he and his team. Needham says that it can take hours doing a game commentary, along with editing afterwards. “It taught me that persistence can really get you somewhere,” Needham said.
Overall, yeahdudegamers may be going through an overhaul with their website, but they have every intention of continuing on with doing weekly live streams on Twitch and updating youtube with their “let’s play” series. They currently have 5-10 people working on their YouTube channel and website.
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