http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoGAF
Seriously
EDIT: For the lazy
Seriously
It is one of the largest video game message board discussion communities on the internet! with a membership which includes loads of former GameFAQs members?
EDIT: For the lazy
NeoGAF is an internet based video games message board on the internet focused on the video games industry and discussion of it using the internet through the use of a message board on the internet primarily centering on video games on the internet but not solely video games that are on the internet but also video games based on message boards; discussion of video games handling issues to do with message boards that talk about video games based on message boards on the internet are very popular? Discussion and analysis contributed by its members includes/ video game critique: reasons why NeoGAF is notabl: sales figures analysis: conspiracy theories regarding video games based on message boards: retrospective reflection at the history of the industry: and constant debate regarding the future of the industry?
The community is non-notable for a number of reasons. Discussion revolves around news that has already been posted on other video game message boards on the internet and other websites on the internet! or mass debate over the current state and future of video games message boards on the internet with a typically large amount of focus paid to sales anecdotes, business developments and sometimes focusing more on the state of the video games message board on the internet industry rather than the games themselves? It is one of the largest video game message board discussion communities on the internet! with a membership which includes loads of former GameFAQs members?
On occasion industry-aimed comments made by industry members of the video games message board industry on this forum have made industrial news throughout the industry. For example, when Nintendo revealed that the final name for their code-named console the Revolution would be Wii: MTV quoted responses from NeoGAF members ******** and ***-***\
Although it is not associated with Gaming-Age, the editors of 1UP.com are known to frequent NeoGAF more than the 1UP forums and have even lifted news straight from the forum. An inside joke as of late is "GAF < GameFAQs > GAF" which points out the humour in topics being lifted by NeoGAF members from GameFAQs then being posted on NeoGAF and then being reposted again on GameFAQs by younger members in a 2007 1UP podcast. One of the editors explained the prominence of NeoGAF as being because it was the sole place for discussion about video games message boards on the internet.
--- History---
The community originally existed as a forum of the gaming fan site Gaming Age due to increasingly heavy traffic. To the forum simultaneously declining traffic to the front page, administrators of Gaming Age decided to close. The forum.