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Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 21:54:12

Fullish

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I’ve been running a gaming website ‘Casualty Gamer’ mostly solo for the last 2 months and I have been oddly really enjoying it. The website so far has been gaming list based content and features, basically any decent stories/articles that could be interesting for gamers has been published.

Now after getting my feet wet in running a gaming website I’d like to be able to expand it by being able to publish gaming news, specifically relating to more casual gaming, eg. Xbox Live, WiiWare, Web Based Gaming etc.

So I realize this may not be everyone’s cup of tea but is anyone interested in writing news?
Ideally I’d like a couple of people who can submit news whenever they have a bit of spare time.

I can’t offer much in return, only ego boosting for watching the view counts and the feeling you have accomplished something (although if the ad revenue picks up I’ll happily share it).

If anyone is interested or has questions post here, pm me or you can email me at help’at’casualtygamer.com (replace ‘at’ with @)
Cheers :)

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:05:35

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I may be able to help you out...I will have to get more details and info about it though.

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:13:19

Fullish

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Hey, currently on the second article down or here I have more details of what I'm looking for.

But ultimately it involves;

Keeping tabs on upcoming game releases.
- Either by watching official sites, or other gaming networks.
Reviewing/analyzing new releases.
Interviewing Devs (probably wont happen till we get enough cred).
Previewing/Hyping upcoming games.

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:14:48

ScorchedAngel08

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Alright, that sounds good, now is it just casual gaming, or can we go big platforms?

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:26:18

Rice

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So wat n4g does...people get news and submit...if its that case i can do that...

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:28:21

Fullish

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ScorchedAngel08

Alright, that sounds good, now is it just casual gaming, or can we go big platforms?

Ideally I'd like to stick to the topics listed to start with.

Xbox Live Arcade
WiiWare
Browser Based Gaming (BBG)
- Flash Games
- Browser Based Games
- Java Games
Independent Gaming
- Smaller game company news/releases/games
- Solo Developers
- etc

The reasoning being, the big platforms are currently covered to hell and it would be nearly impossible to get a foothold in the market when going up against the big guns(IGN, Gamespot etc). If you think about it why would anyone read this website for news when the big sites will already have it covered.
Hence we need to find a niche, and the niche I think would be best is for smaller games. As we gain popularity expanding to cover the total platform would be great but currently it's not really feasible.

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ORIGINAL: Rice

So wat n4g does...people get news and submit...if its that case i can do that...

Not really, it's writing original content instead of submitting somebody else's work.

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:29:31

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Fullish

quote:

ORIGINAL: ScorchedAngel08

Alright, that sounds good, now is it just casual gaming, or can we go big platforms?

Ideally I'd like to stick to the topics listed to start with.

Xbox Live Arcade

WiiWare

Browser Based Gaming (BBG)

Flash Games

Browser Based Games

Java Games

Independent Gaming

Smaller game company news/releases/games

Solo Developers

etc

The reasoning being, the big platforms are currently covered to hell and it would be nearly impossible to get a foothold in the market when going up against the big guns(IGN, Gamespot etc). If you think about it why would anyone read this website for news when the big sites will already have it covered.
Hence we need to find a niche, and the niche I think would be best is for smaller games. As we gain popularity expanding to cover the total platform would be great but currently it's not really feasible.

you could always pay for exclusive news

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Thumbs up, Lets do this!

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:33:34

toughNAME

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Seeing as how little old Slice mysteriously went under, I am very interested. Xbox Live Arcade is something I am definitely into.

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ORIGINAL: Fullish

Interviewing Devs (probably wont happen till we get enough cred)

Of course this begs the question...what of future free games?

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 22:43:17

Fullish

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quote:

ORIGINAL: JVIDICAN
you could always pay for exclusive news

Haha, I wish I had that kind of money to throw around.

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ORIGINAL: toughNAME
Of course this begs the question...what of future free games?

Hopefully it'll happen but again it relies on first building up cred in the gaming world.
Also I sent you a PM back.

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-22th-2008 23:30:37

Jinxstar

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I am pretty big into PSN games and have written a review for Echochrome on this site.

http://n4g.com/reviews/PS3/UReview-143403.aspx

I would be happy to give some reviews and such if thats what your looking for. However expect a delay in my being able to start ASAP cause I am in the process of moving and internet access is in havoc ATM. However if you PM me in a week or so I should be able to start helpin out. Check out my review and let me know bro.

Game on.

P.S. I play some Wiiware titles too but not too fond of em so I would probably be biased.

@ Toughname. If you haven't tried Carcasonne from XBL most def my fav game on thier.

Edit: Fixed review link

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RE: Starting a gaming website, anyone want to help? - Jul.-23th-2008 6:52:55

Odion