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Social Networking for Games has Arrived

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

The success of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has spurred a landslide of niche social network development throughout the online world. Many categories of interests, such as dogs and shoes and music, have seen their own online networking platform come to life through the power of Web 2.0 technologies. Now it’s time for video games .

Today, GarageGames has released, to the world, the new video game social networking site, Great Games Experiment (http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com). This site boasts a current user base approaching tens of thousands and tons of games.
The idea of a social networking site for video games is by no means revolutionary; however, the adjoining of all video games (both indie and mainstream) in one central location, with a democracy of users has never before been implemented. This is more than database of video games. On GreatGamesExperiment.com, a user can rate, review, play, download, search for, browse for, [keep inserting verbs here] any type of video game imaginable. Users can also interact with each other on a multitude of levels. Create your own internal network within the walls of GreatGamesExperiment.com by making friends with, tagging, kudo-ing, commenting on other users throughout the site. Users can also band together to form groups.

The main objectives of the site are as follows:

  • Provide to game fans and developers an opportunity to share and promote their own games!
  • Help gamers and developers network with each other!
  • Help people discover new games! Many of which they may have never heard!
  • Make it easy to download and play games in one place.

Also, check out the cool badges you can get on the site and post around the web:
Great Games Experiment

If you enjoy video games, this is the site for you.

Flash Games Role-Playing Games Free Games First-Person Shooters All Games

MySpace servers suck…

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

As simply put as the title states.  You would think that with all that ad revenue the site pulls in they’d be able to handle some traffic.  YouTube serves up serious streaming media to what looks like an even wider audience base (after insane traffic spikes to the site over the past few months) and I don’t recall that site ever going down as often or have as many errors popping up…  I digress but it’d be nice if MySpace would take heed and invest in some more power.  Maybe Google will buy them out and MySpace can be hosted at Googleplexes throughout the country =)

Oh speaking of social networking… check out http://www.eons.com - social networking for 50-plus’ers.  Looks like the guy who founded Monster.com is behind it.  Kind of an interesting idea.

Hasbro is all about the Plastique

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

It appears that the newest installments of the infamous board game, Monopoly, will forgoe the classic paper money approach to managing your funds. Rather than passing around those historic slips of paper representing your domination over the board games, property market, you will now get to SWIPE away!

Grillz

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Have you heard this single from Nelly entitled Grillz? Being pretty out of touch with a lot of music on mainstream radio / MTV, I had a chance to hear this tune for the first time today. Maaaan, this song just jumps off the deep end. It’s all about sporting some serious bling (i’ve used that word two .blog posts in a row now) in your mouth. That’s right, knock out those teeth and sport some ice instead…

“Call me George Foreman cuz I’m sellin everybody grillz”

Yeah, that’s a line straight from the song!

Check out the Wikipedia entry on the song…

The music video is after the jump! (more…)