I fell in love with a girl. we've been dating for about a year and a month now. unfortunately. it's not going well, and it doesn't appear to be getting better, but a little more time can't hurt. unfortunately i think my being here(on gamespot) is an acknowledgement of what is happening in my life. i'm taking a big step backwards and it doesn't feel good, but i know that it has to happen sometimes.
I was thinking about how there are relatively few regulars that post new topics to GGD, they either link to news or just respond to what topics other users bring up, and I wonder if the reason is due to journals being a feature on GameSpot. I mean, if I recall, a lot of what used to be posted on GGD was fairly personal in nature; one person would be playing through a game that was a couple years old, and they'd relate their experiences in a GGD post. Now, that sort of thing usually ends up with a blog post. I do having a blog, but I wonder if we're making a mistake by putting our game-related experiences on our blogs instead of the game boards.
I'm starting to think I should reserve my blog for rants, and post anything game-related thoughts to GGD.
More than a year ago, I wrote this here in this very blog:
"A few friends and I built a site dedicated to games on the iPhone."
I was referring to a little iPhone gaming site we had built, called Slide To Play. There were four of us back then, with one guy doing the majority of the writing. Our pace was pretty leisurely, releasing a few reviews a week.
It's remained my side project, but over the past year, I've watched something amazing happen. The site started to get traffic. We then started to get some sponsors. Then we were able to get some freelancers, and were able to produce more content. And so on.
Well, the most gratifying event in our site's existence happened just yesterday, thanks to GameSpot. The announcement was made public that GameSpot is now covering mobile games, and editorial content, at least iPhone game reviews, is coming from none other than SlideToPlay!
I'll be honest. When I started building STP, and even after it launched, I didn't have an iPhone and didn't really plan on it. It didn't seem that important; I'm not an editor after all. But just a little exposure to some of the games on the system changed my mind. I got myself an iPhone and have been a believer in its gaming capabilities since! It can handle an intense combat flight sim in the form of FAST to flawless ports of old stand-bys like Myst and The Secret of Monkey Island or ports of great new games like Peggle or completely addictive simple pick-up-and-play games like Flight Control and Harbor Master and everything between.
I was a little skeptcal at first, but I gotta say, it's really hard to put down the iPhone: it doesn't hurt that it's always with me packaged into a phone I'd need all the time anyway.
Regardless, I'd just like to say thanks to GameSpot for giving us an opportunity to expose to a new audience all the cool things you can find on this platform! Keep an open mind and try it out!
The last week of May was a very interesting one in Aussie TV. TV network giants Seven & Nine, who are always dominant of the industry, were given a little bit of a wake up call by the other, much smaller networks, Ten, SBS & ABC. It's also become very apparent this year that local Aussie shows are winning the ratings over the US mega-hits for the first time ever.
Seven won the week in ratings again with a 27.5% share. Followed by Nine (25.7%), Ten (24.2%), ABC (17.5%) & SBS (5.2%).
Top Shows This Week:
1. Seven News Sunday - Seven
2. Masterchef Challenge - Ten
3. Nine News - Nine
4. Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation - Ten
5. Seven News - Seven
6. Spicks & Specks - ABC
7. NCIS - Ten
8. The Chasers War on Everything - ABC
9. Thank God You're Here - Seven
10. Merlin - Ten
If you compare this week with week 22 in the TV calendar 3 years ago in 2006, 6 out of the top 10 shows of the week were international, including Lost, Desperate Housewives, Greys Anatomy, CSI & House. In 2009, its rare to have more than 1 international show making the list! Anyone have an idea as to why the change over the years?
- Former AFL Footy Show host Eddie McGuire has been asked by the nine network to return, claming it would boost ever-falling ratings.
- 24 star Kiefer Sutherland insists that he does not think that he is 'the real Jack Bauer' after a head-butting incident on the Jimmy Fallon Show.
- The Steven Spielberg / Tom Hanks upcoming mini-seires The Pacific is due to air in 2010 & big international markets in countries like the UK, Germany, Canada & France have already bought the rights to air i. The Pacific is a follow up of the sucessfull mini-series Band of Brothers and will follow the stories of the allies battle's in the Pacific theatre of WWII.
- The Australian Communications & Media Authority announced that Channel Nine has topped the commerical free-to-air broadcasters in delivering locally-produced adverts in 2008. Aussie networks are required to screen locally-made ads for at least 80% of their ads that show between 6am & midnight.
- CANCELLED: My Name is Earl.
- ABC has bought an assortment of content from BBC including the third series of Robin Hood as well as Life, Yellowstone, Nature's Great Events, Human Journey, Later...with Jools Holland & Being Erica.
It won't let me edit my last one, so here is an update.
The Fountain 9.8/10
Borat 9.5/10
The Illusionist 9/10
Hard Candy 9/10
Apocalypto- 9/10
Inside Man 9/10
An Inconvenient Truth 8.5/10
Brick 8.5/10
Stranger Than Fiction 8.5/10
Charlotte's Web 8.5/10
Pirates of the Caribbean 8/10
X-men 3 8/10
Strangers with Candy 8/10
V for Vendetta 8/10
Happy Feet 7.5/10
Barnyard 7.5/10
Monster House 7.5/10
Ant Bully 7.5/10
Slither 7.5/10
The Sentinel 7.5/10
Silent Hill 7/10
Lady in the Water 7/10
Curious George 7/10
Hills Have Eyes 7/10
Eight Below 6.5/10
The Omen 6.5/10
Night at the Museum
Jackass Number 2 6/10
United 93 6/10
Mission Impossible III- 5.5/10
Poseidon 5.5/10
RV 5.5/10
Scary Movie 4 5.5/10
John Tucker Must Die 4.5/10
The Black Dahlia 4.5/10
The Shaggy Dog 4.5/10
Date Movie 4/10
