The Yogscast

The Yogscast is a regularly produced double act vlog featuring Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane playing video games online. The series has attracted well over 169,000,000 views on YouTube, and they have over 515,000 subscribers to their channel as of 16th June 2011.
Video games featured include Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Fallout, Magicka, Rift, Final Fantasy XIV, Portal 2, Fable 3 and most recently The Witcher 2.
Minecraft Series
One of the most popular video features of the Yogscast is the Minecraft Series. In December 2010, Simon and Lewis began an ongoing series of Let's play-style Minecraft survival multiplayer videos. As the series progressed, however, it evolved partially into a comedy drama. The Yogscast then expanded to produce video coverage of Minecraft updates, and shorter series consisting of Simon and Lewis taking on custom "challenge" and "adventure" maps.
Lewis's partner, Hannah Rutherford, also makes occasional appearances to demo Minecraft mods.
In April 2011, Simon and Lewis held a telethon-style livestreaming event to raise money for through QubeTubers. They helped raise over $20,000 during their air time.
==="Shadow of Israphel" Saga===
The bulk of the Minecraft series is composed of a semi-improvised comedy drama, where Lewis and Simon play the parts of Xephos (portrayed as William Riker) and Honeydew, a dwarf from Khaz Modan. The series is set in the fictional land of Minecraftia, where Xephos and Honeydew encounter a range of colorful characters, and, by virtue of their talent and skill (or a succession of lucky flukes), become worshipped as mighty heroes by the citizens of the land. Although originally simply trying to survive and thrive in the world of Minecraftia, Xephos and Honeydew become embroiled in an expansive effort to defend the land from the evil Israphel and his cult.
Non-Canonical and Flashback Videos
A variety of non-canonical Shadow of Israphel videos have been produced by the Yogscast team, including a funeral for the iconic series character "Granny Bacon." A series of flashbacks were also produced entitled "The Legend of Verigan" to raise funds for .
World of Warcraft Series
The World of Warcraft videos were the first videos released by the Yogscast. These videos were largely how to videos. It was not until World of Warcraft: Cataclysm was released that Simon and Lewis began recording playthrough videos.
Much of the Yogscast's popularity is due to media and blog coverage of their World of Warcraft videos. Joystiq regularly covered these videos as they were released.
The YoGPoD
The Yogpod is a podcast created by Simon and Lewis currently consisting of 37 podcasts of varying length. It is usually improvised with a wide range of different features. Content includes various recent happenings in their lives, fake interviews with various notable figures (often voiced by Simon) and short lived features such as "Hannah's Cooking Segment".
YogTrailers
YogTrailers is a new show in which Simon and Lewis provide commentary over newly released video game trailers.
Yogiverse
The Yogiverse is the official community site for the Yogscast. It was started in August 2010 by Pat "Peva" Woodward, but was not made official until February 2011.

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