gamersrevival.com

[sanjay]

why is it that the latest entry i see on the homepage is from the 29th april (mean machines archive)?

i know you guys have done articles that are newer than that...

[elvis]

Originally Posted by sanjayschrapel

why is it that the latest entry i see on the homepage is from the 29th april (mean machines archive)?

i know you guys have done articles that are newer than that...

Yeah, they're all coming. Things will be added back in different orders, and I have new content as well that needs to be put up too. So you'll see some old stuff resurface at odd times in amoungst new stuff.

[TOX]

Can whommmmmmmmmm ever does the articles for GR please add me to MSN I have a propsal

thechamilion@hotmail.com

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[Silent Remorse]

GR.com is having its own little, well, revival.

If anyone is interested in writing content, not just about old games, but anything to do with games (software, hardware, news, editorials, the lot) send me an email and we'll go from there.

I still want this site to be about gamers, for gamers. I still want it to have its retro twist. But I'm willing to expand and create an even level of content.

So if you feel like you have publishing quality english skills, send me a note and we'll see what you can offer.

I'm hoping, after a new look and feel, I can have GR back and regular within the next few months.

[ish]

for reviews or news any specific word length? u should maybe list a certain criteria b4 hand otherwise you can get some dog ugly material

[knassy]

Good luck with the revival man. As an eternal optimist, I was checking this site daily for a good few months hoping it would be updated with more regularity. Only recently have I stopped checking it out :<.

[Silent Remorse]

Originally Posted by ish

for reviews or news any specific word length? u should maybe list a certain criteria b4 hand otherwise you can get some dog ugly material

Sorry - before the site crash I had a page that detailed all this, so I'll just summarise things.

Reviews need to cover the following:

Gameplay
Story
Music
Graphics

Style doesn't matter, and word length doesn't really either. If you can get screencaps thats a bonus.

News has to be very current, not necessarily an exclusive, but relevant and interesting. If you look at some of the news thats on the site ATM is a good guide to quality and length.

Editorials need to be focused, and can be as long as possible. At least 400words. The more unique the subject the better

Generally if you write for us we'd like something every week/2 weeks.

Originally Posted by knassy

Good luck with the revival man. As an eternal optimist, I was checking this site daily for a good few months hoping it would be updated with more regularity. Only recently have I stopped checking it out :<.

I knew you loved our work Knassy A lot of people were very happy with our site before the crash, and I think its way past time for a rebirth.

[TOX]

Whats the go with taking screen shots on console games? How do websites do that?

[Silent Remorse]

Originally Posted by TOX

Whats the go with taking screen shots on console games? How do websites do that?

Using emulators or vidcap software.

[stroggos2k]

Originally Posted by TOX

Whats the go with taking screen shots on console games? How do websites do that?

Easy way to do it would be to use a TV card.

[mhef]

be good to see some more content, gl with the revival.

[Silent Remorse]

I've posted a feature article, one of hopefully many, of the new style coming up over the next few months

Enjoy

(Comment on GR.com)

[Mickey Juice]

What happened guys? No more GR?

[Silent Remorse]

Originally Posted by Mickey Juice

What happened guys? No more GR?

Dead as roadkill.

Reasons:

- Staff ran out of free time and subsequently left (yep, all of them)
- Recruiting drive failed miserably
- Quality of outside submitted articles was low
- News became too random and mostly ripped off other blogs
- We generally lost our original focus

And so on. It's a shame, but it's very difficult to co-ordinate 5 people who aren't getting paid to commit to a project where they need to write 2-3 original articles a week. Especially when as passionate as they are, other things (rightly so) come first.

That, and making sure the quality of the work is sufficient for publishing, and stays on target to what sort of market we want. I had quite a few articles sent to me, but they were either too short, poorly written or off topic.

Everything fell over rather quickly, so the site took an early death. It's a damn shame, since I still stand by the concept and hopefully one day I can bring it back. I had another project on the line (gamesieve.com) but it seems that's going to be canned too.

Oh well.

[Deeman]

Originally Posted by Silent Remorse

Dead as roadkill.

Reasons:

- Staff ran out of free time and subsequently left (yep, all of them)
- Recruiting drive failed miserably
- Quality of outside submitted articles was low
- News became too random and mostly ripped off other blogs
- We generally lost our original focus

And so on. It's a shame, but it's very difficult to co-ordinate 5 people who aren't getting paid to commit to a project where they need to write 2-3 original articles a week. Especially when as passionate as they are, other things (rightly so) come first.

I found that too. Putting several hours into each article was just too much time to allocate every week. I put a lot of time into OCAU, but I can do that in 5 minute bursts.

You can't write a decent article that way, and between work, the girlfriend, and everything else involved in modern living, I just couldn't make the time. It's not just GR that suffered, my gaming in general has been in short bursts, and i'd have been lucky to spend 6 hours on any games at all in the last 3 months.

Besides, once SR got the Mario article posted on the frontpage of Digg, we'd already peaked.