by Marc Hustvedt on August 6th, 2009
DOOD, STFU. Gamer comedy web series Pure Pwnage has inked an 8-epsiode TV order from Canadian TV’s Showcase channel.
Created by (starring) Toronto-based Geoff Lapaire, and Jarett Cale via their ROFLMAO Productions outfit, the series dates its first episode back to May of 2004. The series now boasts over 200,000 monthly viewers, and a very active fan base that has roped in even our reviewer.
Cale stars as 25 year-old Jeremy (aka the_pwnerer), a socially challenged full-time gamer living in his mom’s basement spending most of his time ‘pwning noobs’ online. Lapaire, who directs the series, plays his younger brother Kyle. The success of the series has even spawned spin-off web series for the show’s regulars, including Dave Lee’s Pro At Cooking.
by Pat Miller on January 8th, 2009
If you know how to pronounce the show’s name, chances are you’re already a fan, or you will be soon. If you don’t, it – as well as the rest of the show – is probably going to go right over your head.
Pure Pwnage focuses on the life and times of Canadian professional video gamer Jeremy, better known as his online alias “teh_pwnerer” (played by Jarett Cale) and his roommate/brother Kyle (Geoff Lapaire, also the director). In the early episodes, the show starts out as a mockumentary for Kyle’s film class; as Jeremy has been playing video games (and doing little else) since he was two years old, Kyle gets plenty of revealing looks into his life simply by following him around. Imagine a person whose socialization process has gone on in-between games of Counter-Strike or Command and Conquer, and then a fairly normal, if somewhat geeky, film student, and you’ve got Jeremy and Kyle right there.
As the show progresses and a few supporting characters are added – FPS Doug (Joel Gardiner), a specialist in first-person shooter games, Dave (Dave Lee), a latent fighting game specialist and cook, and Anastasia (Miranda Plant), an online role-playing gamer as well as Jeremy’s love interest – the show gradually shifts from mockumentary to drama.
by Arjun Sharma on August 20th, 2008
There’s absolutely no doubt that the internet has changed the world – whether it’s how we find information (Wikipedia), how we search for stuff (Google), or how we watch the latest ‘cute kitten’ videos (YouTube). This change has spawned a subculture of people who write ‘first’ and ‘lolz0rs’ wherever they can find a comment box, [...]
