This will be the last post to hit the front page of GA. After this goes up I'm locking down the publishing side of the site. Guess I better make this good :)

This is my third attempt at writing this post -- I just can't seem to get it right. How do you recap two incredible years of something that was supposed to last only a few months?

We started GA as a challenge, and then it took on a life of its own. Our first episode of the podcast was a disaster, but it set a dangerous precedent. We were real, and we were not going away.

Over the years I've met so many incredible people, both on the publishing side and from readers. I remember the insanely wierd meetup with Cyris Mustang at the VideoGames Live! Show after GDC last year, where we both kinda shuffled around not making eye contact before the show started. It felt like a first goddamn date. But that's kinda been a trend for me. This public stuff has always made me nervous as hell, and honestly doing GA for the extended periods that I've done it has really emboldened me in my every day life.

I'm not going to get all sappy here, because it's not all bad news. I'm going to make this next part big so you pay attention to it:

GamerAndy.com is going to cease to exist (in the near future, for now it's just getting locked down) but GamerAndy Live! is moving to a new site, where we'll have better access and the ability to STRICTLY concentrate on the show.

I've spent the past two weeks talking with a variety of sites out there, and earlier this week we came to an agreement with WorthPlaying.com

I was going to wait until the new site was set up before dropping this bomb on our regulars (except the forum-ites, who have known about this since I started looking).

Our deal with WP goes as follows:

- GamerAndy Live! will become to official show of and at WorthPlaying.com, in exchange for which WorthPlaying offers substantial "above the fold" promotion, including but not limited to a dock on one side of the new page layout, a post when each new episode is released (Friday morning, starting next week) and a rotating banner ad with the rest of the site's advertisements.

- WP also agrees to support GamerAndy Live! with the use of their industry connections to help secure interview opportunities, press invitations, and industry functions.

- In exchange for this, the crew of GamerAndy Live! agrees to produce a new episode every week with complete shownotes and officially refer to GAL as WorthPlaying Presents GamerAndy Live!

- GamerAndy Live! will supply its own hosting (this was one of my demands, I want control)

-GamerAndy Live! will endeavour to create a community at WorthPlaying.com using their considerable skillz and utter hotness. Yes Dante, you can come, too.

So yeah, thats where we are right now. I went to great pains to find a site that:

a) Has significant traffic so we can grow our audience (WP has more than 30x our daily traffic);

b)Would give us complete freedom to talk all the shit we want and won't try to censor Hawkes when he comes back on the show in June :);

c) Is updated regularly;

d) Seems like a fit for our audience.

I know the site is broken now. Ranier (the content editor over at WP) was extremely apologetic about that and assured me that the completely rebuilt site will be live within the next month. With that will come the return of comments and full integration of the forums.

I'm sure you have lots of questions, and I'm available to answer them. For now visit THIS THREAD in our forums. We've moved most of our hardcores to the WP forums, and I honestly encourage all of you to make that journey with us.

When they write the history books, this will be known as The Great GA Exodus.

While it would be a brave thing for us to sit here and let the site stagnate from technical issues and lack of content, I think it is a far braver thing we do by making this journey.

Hope to see you all on the other side.

GamerAndy.com wasn't just a site. It was something special. It took on a life of its own, and I feel like I was merely dragged along in its wake. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Thank you for being part of all this.

Adam "Andy" Levine
Editor, GamerAndy.com
Co-Host, GamerAndy Live!
adam.levine@gamerandy.com