Moving Day in Cyberspace

I've decided to move the entire contents of this blog over to http://wildkard.wordpress.com/ . Make no mistake, blogger is a fine service... but the features that wordpress offers are just preferable to my own tastes and preferences. For the same reasons that I use gmail over other mail services, or that I use Google Earth over MapQuest... I'm making my choice here to use WordPress's features.

Cheers to Wordpress too for allowing me to import this entire blog over to their service, comments, tags and all.

As an aside, one of the main things that brought about this change was my looking for methods of image hosting on this blog. That lead me to take a look at Google's entry into this sector: Picasa Albums. Again... it seems to be a fine program, but it also seems to be a bit of an "odd duck" since it's the only google-owned service I can recall that doesn't allow operations (such as upload or album management) to be done over the web interface. Instead requiring a 23MB downloadable program (that only runs in Win2K, XP and Vista). This is "odd" because other google services, including Google Video and it's recently purchased twin, Youtube... have grown precisely because there was no barrier of entry of having to "download software" and do the administration from a single PC. In the new era of web services, Picasa needs an upgrade :)

New Game a Day Launch

Ripping off... er... I mean... being inspired by Multimedia Mike's efforts... I'm going to start a new feature to my blog. "New Game a Day" (NGAD, if we ever get to the point where slanging it is hip!). Basically the situation is that I own quite a few games that I haven't gotten around to playing. Some of these were probably impulse buys, others were my curiosity and others I fully intend to play through the entire game... I just haven't gotten around to it. I also have quite a few friends, who have been sending me lots of "you've got to try this" demos of different games, some by larger publishers, others being indy titles. In any case, I'm going to try to upload some screenshots (I need to figure out the best method too... since I'm living on blogspot without my own server domain) and do a mini-review of my first impressions to games I've never played before. The secondary goal of NGAD will be to find the weirdest gameplay & experiences possible! Weeee!

Like Mike, a lot of this information will probably be duplicated or enhanced on the Mobygames.com website, but there's always a delay for verification... whereas my blog is much more instant (errors and all! :D)

All NGAD entries will be labeled by the keyword "New Game of the Day" for easy searching.