Tuesday, October 30, 2012

No more Gaming pic of the Week

We skipped last Tuesday's Gaming pic of the Week, because of the lack of a quality picture to post. Today it's Tuesday again and I still couldn't find any. Therefore, I decided to stop the Gaming pic of the Week "section".

I'll still continue to post fun gaming pictures on an irregular basis (whenever I find some good ones), but I won't do it every Tuesday like I did before now.

Stay tuned though, as I'll soon make a quick review of the ones posted to this day, so that we can end this properly. I wish I could've continued to post them regularly, but this is something that doesn't depend on me.

In the meanwhile, have a great week and don't forget to follow iTalkGames on Twitter, as I'm planning on launching a contest once I reach 1000 followers.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Blog traffic observations

I know I've posted more non-gaming blog updates lately, but I did say when I started Talk Games Online that this blog is by itself an experiment. So don't panic.

The experiment is showing more and more results to me and I managed to gather valuable data for what's to come (I can't say more about it at this time).

Speaking of which, the blog finally has enough traffic for trends to be somewhat viewable now. So I noticed an interesting fact: the weekly traffic peak is on Thursdays. And it's so obvious that it saddened me each Friday during the last few weeks when I saw the traffic dropping a bit on Fridays.

But then I set myself the right mind frame and realized that the traffic wasn't dropping on Fridays, but was simply increasing slowly until Thursdays, peaking that day, then going back to normal.

It's quite interesting to notice that traffic is lower in the weekends (after the aforementioned peak), but I guess people need more distractions during the week, maybe to get some fun or simply some reading after a hard day's work (at their job or school).

Also, sorry for not posting the Gaming pic of the Week this Tuesday. I didn't find anything worth posting, so I preferred not to, rather than posting something bad.

That being said, stay tuned for more stuff cool. Have a fantastic weekend!

Friday, October 19, 2012

Gaming pic of the Week #15 - Rockstar Logic

Hello guys! As I promised last week and this Tuesday, it's time for the second Gaming pic this week, to make up for the skipped one and get back on track.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Wisps: The Redeeming - an awesome indie game!

Hey there guys, check this freaking awesome indie game out. It's called Wisps: The Redeeming and it's a top-down arcade game. You're supposedly a wisp god who controls a firefly to guide your demi-god son through a complex labyrinth of trees in the dark woods of some fantasy land.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

New gaming YouTube channel - Villain Zone

Awesome exclusive game reviews, gameplay videos and walkthroughs.

Villain Zone is a brand new gaming channel on YouTube, which promises to bring original content to the table - one of a kind exclusive reviews for indie games (and not only), awesome gameplay videos and cool walkthroughs with commentaries.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Gaming pic of the Week #14 - Video Game Platforms as Teachers

After our short "vacation", we're back with the Gaming pic of the Week we should have posted last Tuesday. To try and make it up to you, we're posting it as early as we can - in fact, earlier in the day than we ever posted a picture, or an article altogether.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

We're back!

In the past week there hasn't been much (visible) activity around here. Even the Gaming pic of the Week that you got used to seeing every Tuesday has been missing.

As I said in a previous post, I have been busy making some changes in the back-end of the blog, changes that now start to reflect in website traffic analytics.

But now we're finally back and things will be more awesome than ever. Don't worry, we'll make the time you spent waiting worth it and we won't just leave the last week be skipped. Instead, we'll post two Gaming pics of the Week the following days, one Tuesday as usually and one some couple of days later or so.

Thank you guys for understanding. Cheers!

Friday, October 5, 2012

Blog update - no poll for October & more news

I made some changes under the hood of the blog in the past few days and more are to come. I also submitted the blog to various Web directories. I really hope that these changes will be reflected in the visitors rate for the following weeks.

I also believe that the poll might cause some problems between the blog and Google's crawler (the thing that jumps from link to link to search the websites), so at least for October there will be no poll.

I am going to spend some time during the following days to make more similar updates and, hopefully soon, I will unleash a big surprise upon you guys.

Thanks for your understanding!

Thursday, October 4, 2012

XCOM Lead Game Designer goes Undercover

As you may or may not know, in game development there's two main branches: developers and publishers. The publishers are those who promote and sell the games (to stores and gamers as well), while the developers are those who create the game.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Twitter update - we now have 500 followers!

Great news everyone, we just reached 500 followers on Twitter.

I first announced our Twitter account on this blog on September 1st, so it's only been a little over a month since that time and we already have half a thousand followers. It's been a very rapid progress, things have been going better and faster than I expected.

If things keep evolving this fast, I think it's safe to say that by the beginning of November we would have exceeded the thousand Twitter followers milestone.

If you're not following us, do it now 'cause we'll all #TeamFollowBack. Ka-chow! :D

Resident Evil 6 - IGN Review [and Game Trailer]

IGN editor Richard George posted a nice review of Resident Evil 6 that I though I should share with you. Check out the video review here, or read more information about the content of the review below.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Gaming pic of the Week #13 - Gay Mario

Welcome to the 13th edition of Gaming pic of the Week, a number that's very lucky for us. Why? Cause I say so and cause I don't believe in bad luck. :D

This Tuesday we have another cool comic with quite an interesting turn of events. Our friendly plumber Mario is even friendlier than we though. Check it out below.