Gamertag Radio
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Gamertag Radio is a gaming news and information site that features an online radio show dedicated to the Xbox Live
Xbox Live
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...

 community. Over the past few years GTR has grown from a small website to one of the largest and most respected gaming information/community sites on the Internet. The show features a new episode every week hosted by Godfree (Co-Founder of Gamertag Radio).

Members of the staff that appear regularly on the show include co-host Peterocc (aka THM Peterocc), LadyLuck, and Paustinj. Other staff members that regularly contribute to GTR are CyberAthlete, Tr3ks, and AnjoBanjo.

Every week a new episode is created recapping the news of the past week and includes discussions about what is happening in the online gaming community along with interviews and a weekly custom soundtrack highlighting up & coming Hip Hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 artists.

GTR also regularly reviews new games, discusses new downloadable content
Downloadable content
Downloadable content is official additional content for a video game distributed through the Internet. Downloadable content can be of several types, ranging from a single in-game outfit to an entirely new, extensive storyline, similarly to an expansion pack. As such, DLC may add new game modes,...

, talks about upcoming games, while attempting to shine some light on the Xbox Live gamers themselves who contribute to the gaming community. GTR has had the opportunity to interview many of the biggest names in the Xbox community such as Peter Moore (Head of EA Sports Gaming), Cliff Bleszinski
Cliff Bleszinski
Clifford Michael "Cliff" Bleszinski is the design director for the game development company Epic Games in Cary, North Carolina. He is most famous for his continuing hand in the development of the Unreal franchise, especially 1999's Unreal Tournament, and the Gears of War franchise...

 (Lead designer of Gears of War
Gears of War
Gears of War is a military science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios...

s), the staff of TeamXbox.com, Major Nelson
Larry Hryb
Lawrence "Larry" Hryb , also known by his Xbox Live gamertag Major Nelson, is the Director of Programming for the Microsoft gaming network Xbox Live. His blog "Xbox Live's Major Nelson" provides an "inside" look at operations at Microsoft's Xbox division. He picked the gamertag Major Nelson after a...

 (the Director of Programming for Xbox Live
Xbox Live
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...

) and many others.

Former Staff Members of Gamertag Radio

  • Design Jockey
  • Baked Ant
  • BamBeatz
  • Feelz Good
  • JVB
  • Miss iRiE
  • Nano
  • Pink Sage

Top GTR Shows

These are GTR's top most downloaded shows of all time:

Xbox Community Roundtable!
Discussion with some GTR fans featuring: Coola (Xbox365), Pointblank, JVB, Foomoojive (podtacular) & many more. What do you think they had to say?

Xbox Community Awards 2005!
Enjoy this historical event, the first Annual Xbox Community Awards!

What's wrong with the Xbox Community?
Gamertag Radio staff discussed an important issue going on in the Xbox Community. "To many chiefs, not enough Indians....." - Nano
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