"The Weekly Reality Check Magazine"

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This is a step forward in the Forum Magazine as the mods of RTVG are proud to bring you a new and revamped version of our beloved Forum Magazine. The Weekly Reality Check will catch you up with all the latest...

Current Sign-ups
Games in Progress
Weekly Ratings
Member Interviews
Special Announcements
Rumors & Speculations
Reality TV News
Opinionist Columns
Weekly Reviews

Get your Reality TV fix with all the latest updates on ur favorite reality shows. Find out what's new around the RTVG Forum. Check into what games are holding sign-ups. Find out what hosts and players may have up their sleeves next with in depth interviews. And of course everyone's favorite Top Rated Games of the Week List. At this point, with a small amount of games running, We can only do Top 5. But hopefully this list will encourage hosts to make more games so they can get some Top 10 glory.

The first issue of The Weekly Reality Check will debut on Friday. This issue is still in the works, so if you would like to contribute to the magazine, please contact me with your ideas. I am also willing to accept advertisements for upcoming or current games that anybody may want to submit. Most of you know how the ADs work. Using the "[bgcolour]" tags and making it all pretty and stuffz. Without your contributions, dont expect much. Your contributions are much appreciated. Can't wait to finish the first issue. Coming to a thread near you Friday!!

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Current Casting Calls
This section is where you can find out what games currently casting for new players.

Pirates Of The Carribean Survivor - Capt. Jack Sparrow (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=499705)
Survivor: Luxury Island - Vin Dictive (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=498501)
The Modzilla Challenge - Gnome Lover (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=497661)
Unknown Game - Vin Dictive (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=498500)
WWE Survivor - DPUAKTE (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=499635)

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Shows In Progress
This section is where you can find out what games are currently in progress. Games highlighted in red are on hiatus or havent been active in the past week.

DIY 2.5 - Gnome Lover
I Kicked His Ass - Gnome Lover
Insane Apprentice 2 - Insane Man
Interactive Big Brother 7: All Stars - Blaze_85_98
Liberty City Survivor 5: Revenge Of The Mafia - Degenerate
Survivor: Exile Island - Gnome Lover
Survivor 2: Nintendo 64 - Gabby Jay
The Leader - DeViL

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Top 5 Weekly Ratings
This section contains a Top 5 countdown of the Top 5 games viewed over the past week. Views are counted and compared on a week to week basis.

5) I Kicked His Ass & Liberty City Survivor 5 - Gnome Lovers unique shot at a 1 versus 1 showdown game ties the 5th place spot with Degenerate's 5th season of his first series in RTVG. Both games had 170 views and both share the right to the 5th Place postition this week. Will one of these games pull ahead of the other next week? Check back next week to find out.

4) Insane Apprentice 2 - Insane Man's take at creating another rude and mean Apprentice game has taken off well. Sequel to the Award winning Insane Apprentice, Insane Apprentice 2 is even more difficult and heartless than before and takes the 4th place spot with 367 views.

3) Interactive Big Brother 7: All Stars - Blaze makes his countdown debut with his hit series of Interactive CBS Reality Shows. His Interactive Survivors and Big Brothers, which consist of contestants answering trivia based on episodes that aired the day before and partaking in similar challenges, have always been intriguing and grabbed the RTVG Members interest. With 679 Views, IBB7 is number 3 this week.

2) Survivor 2: Nintendo 64 - Gabby Jay is in the countdown this week with the sequel to his award nominated SNESurvivor. This time, Gabby takes us into the world of the Nintendo 64. Where legendary games where born such as Goldeneye, Legend Of Zelda: Ocaraina of Time, and Super Mario 64. Can Gabby keep up the pace? With 836 views, Survivor 2: N64 is number 2.

1) Survivor: Exile Island - Gnome Lover, the former mod of RTVG is probably the most unlikely candidate for having a number 1 game. But low and behold, he did it. Survivor: Exile Island is this week's most viewed game. This Survivor is a take on CBS's 12 Season of its long running reality show, Survivor, where each week, one person will be sent to Exile Island and be kept away from the rest of the cast for a full day. Gnomey's game takes the first place spot with 870 views.

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Top Stories and Rumors of the Week
This section fills you in on everything happening in the forum.

Return of the Capt...Again
RTVG Veteran Capt. Jack Sparrow is back in RTVG once again. The last time we saw him, he brought us yet another awsome game that didnt finish. That game was The Battle For RTVG Fest. A Spin off of MTV's and The Osbourne's "Battle For Ozzfest." Though the captain is known for hit games such as Stargate and his original Survivors, he is more known for his amazingly good games that never finish. Games such as Stargate 3, Jurassic Park, Hannibal, and Silence of The Lambs were amazing games...none of them making it into the Hall Of Fame. But with his latest game, Pirates of the Carribean Survivor, will he finally get himself back into the Hall Of Fame? All we can do is sit back and wait to see what will happen.

Who Wants Super Hero to Come Back?
Remember a couple of months ago when this guy named Dan swept RTVG off its feet winning multiple awards for this game called Super Hero? Yea, i thought so. So where is he now? The man formerly known as Dan and Gambit is now named Birdman and is lurking around the forums...but will he ever make a return? Will we ever see a revival of Super Hero 2? Will he sue Stan Lee for stealing his idea of having a Reality show that revolves around Super Heroes?

Gone Again?
Once again, low and behold, stop the presses...Fable has disapeared again. Fable was last seen signing up for Degenerate's Liberty City Survivor 5. Since then, Fable hasnt appeared anywhere. If you have seen this lost member, contact us at 1-800-lost-guy. But in all seriousness, Fable, show up please. We need to know if you're ok or if you're sick again?

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The Reality TV Insider
This is where you can catch up with some of your favorite reality shows on television. ( Courtesy of http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/ )

Big Brother 7: All Stars
This season is definetly turning out to be a wild one. For Four Weeks straight, Big Brother 6 cast members have managed to get Head of Household. And somehow, each week, Chilltown survives. Yes, yet another week of Big Brother, and Will and Boogie remain in the house. This week, it was Diane to go home after being voted 7 to 1. Will was the only person to vote for the other nominee, Erika. Now, its looking pretty wild from here. Season 6 is starting to fall apart, Chilltown remains in the game, and this week's HOH competition is still going on at this moment. We'll have to tune in on Sunday at 8pm eastern time to find out if BB6 retains the HOH, or if one of the floaters or Chilltown can possibly end the reign of the ever so great Season 6 alliance.

Who Wants To Be A Super Hero!
The great Stan Lee. Comic Book creator, Movie Actor, Director and Producer, and now Reality Show host? Yes, Stan Lee hosts this brand spankin new hot and original show where he is looking for the next star super hero who will star in their own Saturday Night TV Movie on Sci-Fi channel and get their own Comic Series made by Stan Lee himself. 11 wannabe heroes were chosen to begin this journey to be the best. But now its down to 7. Four Eliminations in only 2 episodes have sent wannabe heroes Nitro G, Levity, Cell Phone Girl, and Iron Enforcer were eliminated. But on the last episode, shortly after the elimination of the Iron Enforcer, He tells him that he makes a horrible hero, but a great villian. He continues to him by inviting him back to the cast, but as a villian that will make things harder for our wannabe heroes. What role will the new Iron Enforcer play in the next episode? Tune in Thursday at 9pm eastern only on Sci-Fi Channel for an all new episode.

Real World/Road Rules Challenge 12: Fresh Meat
In the last episode of Fresh Meat, the strongest team went from being number 1 all the way to dead last as they were asked by producers to leave the game due to their injuries. Thats right, Coral and Evan of the Brown Team were booted from the show due to them both having serious injuries that could have only gotten worse as the game progressed. But with that, it opened the doors for the Final 6 teams to fight for the top spot. In the challenge that followed, Derrick and Diem of the Blue team won and nominated Shane and Linette of the Pink Team to go into Exile. Then in the inner circle, the majority voted once again that the Red Team, Wes and Casey would go into Exile. Will the Pink or Red Team win the pardon at the next challenge, or will both go into exile facing elimination? Find out Monday at 10pm eastern only on MTV.

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Eat This: The Bold Truth
This column is the return of Insane Man's brutally honest opinions on the RTVG Forum.

The Blame Game
It seems recently that RTVG is picking back up in activity but there is one thing I have to get off my chest. I am not the reason for RTVG inactivity spurt. People have lives and have other thing other than RTVG to worry about. I am just tired of constantly receiving the blame for the death of RTVG. I know I probably was not one of the top candidates for moderators of this forum and I know some of you probably resent me for this. Well guess what get over it. I am here to stay I think I have proven my worth. When Gnome Lover and Life went inactive, who was here splitting games and closing threads me. I know I am not perfect and I know I have upset people in the past but you know I try to keep the forums clean. I know not every decision made in RTVG is clear and cut and some are controversial. But before you guys start blaming me for the decisions don’t forget I have two other co moderators who also help along with the decision. Usually before I request for a ban, block, or warn anybody I consult with Fable and the person formerly known as VGM. I know it seems trendy to say that I am the death of RTVG but in actuality it was the lack of active games. There were many games just no one playing them so people got discourages and quit making games. So my final remark is get off of my back.

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*Thank you for reading Issue 1 of The Weekly Reality Check. Issue 2 will be posted next Thursday Night. Staff, please submit your articles by Wednesday Night. If you would like to contribute to the mag, please PM me or AIM me at lilgame06.

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Alrighty people, just want to let everybody know that the 2nd issue will be up this thursday nite. So, Insane Man and Gabby Jay, i need ur articles in by thursday evening. Also, if anyone else wants to contribute...let me kno by telling me what you want to do. I dont necessarily have a job for everyone. So if you want to work for me, give me a job you want to do. The only job i am really looking to hire for is an interviewer.

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Hey everybody, i wanna bring the magazine back...but im not in a hurry to do so. im trying to take small steps in returning to the forum...dont wanna move too fast and load too much on myself. But i just wanted to give everybody a heads up about it. If anybody wants to contribute to the magazine, let me know by posting here what ideas you have or what you would like to contribute. I'll be handling the basic sections of the magazine, which include the sign ups, the ratings, games in progress, and top stories and rumors. Ill also do small parts in keeping up with the latest reality shows on tv.

If anybody would like to help out...here are a few parts i could use help in.

-keeping up with the latest in reality tv
-opinionist columns regarding the forum or reality tv
-weekly reviews of current games in the forum
-interviews with members/previews of upcoming games in forum
-etc...

You can contribute by doing one of these listed above or letting me know if you have another idea. Fable, and Insane Man, it would be cool to have you guys back on board of the staff assuming we can all keep things going.

[Insane man]

I'll line up the opinions once again. I'll be glad to be back on the staff

[Fable]

I didnt come back to the forum with the hope that it would become what it once was overnight.My personal feeling is that the site all but killed the forum when post count was shut off, for varying reasons.Why a website like gamewinners would not want maximum activity is beyond me, expose the ads. That being said, I came back to the forum because i missed it. Maybe i am the only one, but to this day I will be sittin around and think to myself " that would make a good rtvg game" So yea I am definately down for the magazine. Not sure I can keep up to a strict weekly deadline, but i will bring back Fables corner for sure.

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Maybe i am the only one, but to this day I will be sittin around and think to myself " that would make a good rtvg game"

lol, nah, ur not the only one, i get that sometimes too

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I wish we had some of the REALLY long-time vets, Mynameis coming back was nice, but I miss Classyguy, Silver, Tyron, etc.... :(

[Cap'nJazz]

I wish we had some of the REALLY long-time vets, Mynameis coming back was nice, but I miss Classyguy, Silver, Tyron, etc.... :(

That'd be nice.

I don't know if it was the post counts being shut off but the fact that rules actually started to be enforced in the forum really sucked. Man we essentially had free reign of this forum for the first couple years. Oh the trolling and flaming.

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That'd be nice.

I don't know if it was the post counts being shut off but the fact that rules actually started to be enforced in the forum really sucked. Man we essentially had free reign of this forum for the first couple years. Oh the trolling and flaming.

yea, i do have to say, during my modship, i felt bad about some of the decisions made. Only because i knew that years ago when classy, silver, tyron and cheezy were running this joint, things wouldn't have been taken as seriously.

as far as the post count thing (another thing that happened during my reign as mod), i think that crap sucks ass too. First of all, it was the most random thing ever, being that we went the first 4 or 5 years of this forum with post count on and no problems or concerns by the higher ups. And then all of a sudden its a problem. Just seemed kinda crappy to me. If it was up to me, i would turn it back on...but i wouldnt put the full blame on that as the reason so many people are gone that used to be here. I think people are gone cuz they may have just gotten bored with the forum, or their lives stepped in and they didnt have time for this anymore.

...then again, what do i know...im just a 2nd tier vet...:D

[Insane man]

I don't think it had anything to do with the post counts i said that many times before. I argued that post counts should have stayed on though. I think people just are busy. Since post counts are off i have allowed more talking in threads and stuff. I can't allow flaming and trolling though.

[Excop]

I think people just decided to move on, some of the people had spent 2-3 years here, and might have wanted to move on.

[Cap'nJazz]

I came back for the poker forum and came back more this year since I had nothing better to do at school. College is such a waste of time yet so awesome

[Gabby Jay]

It is life that has killed my activity. I figured this thread would be perfect to give an update on my status. I just finished high school (senior year, REALLY busy), and I am going to be moving out on Saturday. I'm supposed to get my own computer soon, and I'll have MUCH more free time starting in about a week, as well as my own computer to access whenever I want to. Therefore, I will return to this forum very soon. I am extremely pleased to see what has happened in my absence, and I just with I could come back sooner, but I have not felt I have enough time to host or even participate in a game. I will be making a comeback though. And when I return, I'll host games (yes, Fable, I also think "Oh, that'd be great for RTVG on Gamewinners...), participate in games, and even help you on this magazine. Until then, I bid you adieu, and wish you all luck. See you all soon.

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OMGzorz!!! GABBY JAY!!!!

lol, good to see u back gabby