This whatever exists mostly because two guys who met on insertcredit and/or selectbutton.net like to think and talk about video games and the video game business.  These two guys are:

• Rudie Overton, who has lived in Texas and Tokyo , played way too many games, and listened to way too much ska and punk.  He blogs about all of this at tokyorude.blogspot.com.
• Chris Pinner, who has never lived outside the great(?) state of Ohio, but spent a whole lot of time playing games and reading too much while he stayed there.  He blogs sometimes anywhere, but is trying to do it more regularly at rocket00000.wordpress.com.