It is a little interesting that both Gamesindustry.biz and MCV have recently released traffic details. Gamesindustry.biz at over 340K monthly uniques, MCV at over 240K monthly uniques. Now both these sites publish multiple articles every day written by multiple professional journalists. So my whimsical opinion pieces can hardly be expected to compete.
Here are the numbers that analytics are telling me for the last month of Bruceongames: Visitors 100,869, Uniques 91,014, Page views 185,954.
Imagine what they would be if I had a bit more content and a marketing budget!
I am going away on a big holiday to strange and exotic lands.
A lot of time I will be travelling, a lot of time I will be where there is no easy interweb access and a lot of time I will be enjoying my holiday.
So I will have little, if any, time to look after Bruceongames. Which means comments may stack up for a while before being approved, but please still make them. Normal service should resume after 14 September.
To keep you happy I have written a whole pile of articles which should auto publish themselves to a schedule whilst I am away.
28 August: Some free advice for Michael Grade
31 August: About good management
2 September: Gran Turismo 5 (GT5) Vs Forza Motorsport 3 (FM3)
4 September: What do game publishers do and is there any need for them?
7 September: Will video gaming become the main form of human exercise?
9 September: How to manage fansites
11 September: The Great Flu
14 September: Microdigital in Liverpool
Obviously none of these can be news related. They are more industry background pieces. I hope you enjoy them.
Evony is a new, free, browser MMO. And their marketing consists of spamming up the internet like crazy. This blog is receiving a huge number of spam “comments” from them. Fortunately Akismet anti spam puts them automatically into the bin. Here are some of the email addresses they are using for this spam:
And so on. They are doing this from the IP address 63.223.110.211
Whois Record
OrgName: Beyond The Network America, Inc.
OrgID: BNA-42
Address: 450 Springpark PL
Address: Suite 100
City: Herdon
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 20170
Country: US
NetRange: 63.216.0.0 - 63.223.255.255
CIDR: 63.216.0.0/13
NetName: BTN-CIDR5
NetHandle: NET-63-216-0-0-1
Parent: NET-63-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS.CAIS.COM
NameServer: NS2.CAIS.COM
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 1999-12-09
Updated: 2004-11-12
OrgAbuseHandle: PAD13-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: PCCW AUP Department
OrgAbusePhone: +1-703-621-1637
OrgAbuseEmail:
For a long time now I have been bringing you a quick analysis of eight current news stories every week. This is stopping because I feel that the analysis is not getting the attention it deserves. Instead I will post single item news “shorts” as and when they crop up. This should keep the site content fresher and better reflect the news flow.
