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C And so it begins...

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In 1998, I began work on what was to become HonestGamers. Though it originally began as a Geocities site built by someone who had no idea what he was doing (that would be me), the humble little site grew into the 'Honest Gamer' name, adopted an appropriate domain and, over the next ten years or so, evolved into the HonestGamers that you may recognize today. Along the way, the site expanded significantly. What began as a single-page project quickly stopped growing at its initial rate of a page or two a month as PHP and MySQL entered the picture. Dozens of talented writers posted their content, ensuring that casual visitors who stumbled across the site would almost certainly find something worth reading--a lot of things, maybe--if they stuck around for very long at all. I'm proud of what HonestGamers has become and pleased with its prospects for the future. Staff and users continue to make it a special place, but recently I realized that for all of its strengths, that site can't allow me to easily write about those things that I most want to write about. There are a variety of reasons for that and none of them reflect badly on the site. Things simply are what they are. As I came to that realization, I also found myself facing a choice. I could either radically alter HonestGamers so that it fit my current needs (a massive undertaking that also didn't seem quite fair to the many people, myself included, who so carefully built the site's identity), or I could build a new site. I decided to build a new site, and Gameroni is that site. With Gameroni, I anticipate that I'll be able to spend a lot more time writing about the stuff that I want to write about, and the same should also hold true for the others that I have brought on board and who I will continue to bring on board when the timing (and their availability) are right. Now on a busy Tuesday when I get 30 press releases in my inbox, I won't feel the same compulsion to post most of them. I can pick and choose and Gameroni won't be any worse for it because Gameroni is an intimate blog, not a mega-site. Now when I find myself playing and loving a terrific game, I won't feel compelled to move onto something else because I can't possibly turn my experience into words that fit my site's editorial needs. If I want to play the new Mario game for ten weeks straight and write about it several times in the process, well, that's what I'll do! Of course, it's easy for me to say all of that as I sit down to the blank slate that is Gameroni at this precise moment, but that's how I see things. Time will tell whether or not my expectations are realistic, but at the very least this should be an interesting ride. As I begin this venture with a talented team at my side, I look forward to the twists and turns that the next 10 years bring. I look forward to writing just about whatever I feel like writing, like I did in the old days, and I look forward to content from others on the team who are doing the same thing. Here's hoping you enjoy the ride as much as we do!

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