Hello everyone, I’d like to cover CasualCore’s history before discussing its future.

Less than a year ago, Andrew and I both (separately) came to the realization that we wanted to do a gaming podcast.  Within a few weeks time CasualCore went from being an unnamed idea to a show that while rough, was real. For one practice episode and one real one, we made this our internet home. It was the booking of our first guest (for our second show ever) Chris Kluwe that lit a fire under our asses to get a real website up and running, and start taking the show seriously. If you go back and listen to episode 2 I’m pretty sure you can hear me peeing my pants the entire time Chris was on, and honestly I’m glad you can. I think you can hear and see that the rapid growth from “an idea” to doing our second show with Chris Kluwe forced both of us to adapt as podcasters, press, and as people. Just like with most of CasualCore’s history, awesome things were happening…very quickly. Huge thank you again to Chris for being awesome enough to take a chance us, even though we only had one actual show under our belt.

From that moment on CasualCore has been inside a whirlwind of growth and change, doing awesome stuff we never thought we’d get to do…all in the matter of less than a year. What started as an idea, turned into a full fledged thing. We added an awesome third bro Abe, talked to people that are responsible for making some of our favorite games, covered the amazing River’s Edge festival, and manned our own table at Sogen Con. The culmination to our “year of awesome” was fulfilling a dream and attending Pax. We got to meet and talk to so many amazing people that I can’t begin to thank them all, and we got to do so many cool things that I’m still in awe when I recall our experiences. Andrew and I both can’t wait to attend Pax again next year, and also hit up Pax East in April.  As a really neat bonus, it was there at the convention that I for the first time discovered exactly what I wanted to/was meant to do with my life.

That’s enough reminiscing though, it’s time to talk about the future of CasualCore. As I said already this past year has been absolutely crazy and amazing, but we as a show need a break. We need to take some time to work on our skills, work on other non-podcast projects, and quite frankly work on ourselves. We’re by no means going away forever but instead of half-assedly doing a weekly show and not giving you our best, we’ve decided to put the CasualCore podcast on indefinite hiatus. As tough as it is to write that, and as tough as it was to come to that decision, it’s for the best.  So this Friday (episode 27) will be our last show for the known future, and we’d be honored if you’d tune in.

I’d like to stress that just because the show is on hiatus, doesn’t mean CasualCore as an entity is going away. CasualCore will still be publishing regular content (reviews, videos, live-streams, etc.), we just won’t be doing the podcast.  Also hopefully come April, we’ll be bringing you a ton of awesome Pax East coverage as well!  There are already a few pretty big things in the works that we can’t talk about yet, so please stay tuned.

On that note, I and the rest of CasualCore want to thank you all for your continued listenership, readership, and overall support. We couldn’t have grown as a show without your help, and facing this uncertain yet awesome future would suck without you. You’re all awesome people, and if we could we’d high-five each and every one of you.

Talk to you all soon.