About Area 5 Media

The crew of The 1UP Show was laid off after UGO’s purchase of 1UP.com. This is where we’ve landed.

Area 5’s named after the last (and our favorite) area of the game Rez, and we’re going to continue to do what we do best—make the best gaming shows that we can. Area 5’s first original show is CO-OP, a weekly look at the meaningful, the important, the interesting, or the just plain fun games that are out there or will be coming out.

While editorial gaming video is our passion and our first love, we feel that we have the best team in the business when it comes to creating and editing video for the gaming industry. Area 5 Media is here as our outreach to any developer, publisher, or marketing team that is looking for highly efficient contractors to handle their video needs. We can handle every aspect of the video-production pipeline: developer diaries, DVD extras, mini- or long-form documentaries, or even editing your trailers and making sure that the formats are suited for wide distribution among all of the outlets, online and broadcast, that you deal with every day. Our previous experience creating video directed solely at the gaming audience gives us a unique perspective on how the video game industry can best utilize the moving image as a resource and as a vehicle to reach the gamer. After all, we’re as “gamer” as they come. Can you find that in Hollywood? Maybe. There are a lot of gamers these days. Can you find a video-production studio in Hollywood that’s done everything that we’ve done and knows the industry as well as we know it? Doubtful. Also, we’re fun to work with, and if you’ve already made a game, chances are that at least one of us has played it.

If this sounds like a service you can use, contact us!

matt (at) area5 . tv