An update about updates / Official forums!

Hey folks, sorry for the thin content over the last week or so.  It’s been hectic for me in mostly good ways.   Most of it is mundane “oh man, I’ve been working so much overtime” but there is also some good news to share.

First and foremost, this blog now has forums.  Hooray forums.   Everyone likes to talk on forums while bored at work, right?  And hopefully this will be a good time waster as we discuss games we like and dislike, and all things blog related if you so desire.

But the purpose is larger than that.  I talked to Megan Casey, EIC over at Squidoo, and we have some big plans for this blog and we will need the forums to help bolster that.   Details are being worked out as of now, but Squidoo is ready to actually throw some money where their collective mouths are when it comes to you guys making lenses and stuff.   One such idea (and again, nothing is official yet) is me coming up with a contest like, say, “make a lens about your all time top 5 favorite games” and then I’ll judge the best one and Squidoo will supply prizes.  And they seem pretty serious, during our discussions I heard everything from “A game of their choice for whatever system” to “an ipod.”  Seriously.

So, obviously, this has big implications for the blog, and for you, the readers.  What we want to create with this blog (which has been happening a bit, but not to the level we want, yet) is a place where the video game lensmasters can come and meet and discuss ideas and we can have contests and I can blog about your lenses or I can blog about crap I like and randomly just find your lens (I seem to be pretty good at that).

I will have more blog posts coming this week. Possibly even tonight.  Definitely tomorrow.  And i’ll try to rattle off a bunch in a row so you guys don’t think I am dying.   Like I said before, I just worked like 19 days in a row, but I got a promotion (and a nice raise), so that’s cool… and my schedule is settling down again and I will regain my focus on this.  And I haven’t been sitting idly by either, I designed forums! Did I tell you about my forums?

So, yeah, go register at the forums and start chatting.   I personally expect it to start off slow, with everyone being pensive about being one of the first people to post.   But the forums are here to stay, and I’ll be there daily even if it’s talking to myself.  So go help me not do that.