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I am taking a week off to revisit one of the greatest cities on earth, Istanbul. It was the capital of the world under the Romans and again under the Ottomans. The layers of history, heritage and culture make many other great cities seem like villages in comparison.

So I am giving you all a week off from reading my diatribes. Normal service could well resume in about ten days.

Bruceongames is now a respectable body of work with over 460 articles, some of which have become “standards” and are now read by people every day. The blog has achieved everything I set out to do. I have expressed my views on a range of topics, proven that I can think and write and even become a little more well known. Some of my predictions have come true, others haven’t, but I am not unhappy with the success rate.

However creating this stuff takes a lot of time and I don’t get paid for it, the Google ads at the side literally only bring in pennies. So I have decided that there are better things I can be doing in my life than 5 articles a week on here. However I don’t want to lose the platform. So starting now I am going to try to generate just two articles a week. One in the first part of the week will be a proper article and the second one, later in the week will be an overview of bits of news that support my world view. It may pan out that there is more, or less. We will see.

A merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone. That includes the fanboys of all ages who hurl abuse at me out of ignorance, let’s hope they become more educated and open minded in the new year.

I am taking a little rest from writing these articles. Normal service should resume around the middle of January.

In order to be more sociable and to create an area for people with the common interest of the games industry I have started a Facebook group for Bruceongames. It is open for anyone to join, so please do. Just put Bruceongames in your Facebook search window. See you there!

So yesterday I signed up to two things that are hot at the moment. Twitter is microblogging. 140 character messages from mobile phone or computer. Full on it looks like this: http://twitter.com/public_timeline 
And here is my little beginning: http://twitter.com/Bruciebabe

Naymz is yet another form of social networking. But this time it serves as a central point for everything you do on the internet. Here is mine: http://www.naymz.com/search/bruce/everiss/2335582
It has good tools for importing your address book so it is easy to get going. If you can be found at multiple places on the web this makes good sense, as you can see from my entry.

I’m off for a week of cave diving. If I can find time and a connected computer I will try and write articles. Otherwise there may be gaps.

I have pre loaded a pile of articles.

• 4.8 Sony PS3 marketing mistakes. I was asked for this. Should keep the fanboys happy.
• 5.8 More on Tera Patrick and Saint’s Row 2. My reaction to the reaction really.
• 6.8 Devil May Cry 4 sales cannibalised by piracy. The industry is at a turning point. Forced there by mass thieving.
• 7.8 Eight news stories 7.8. Obviously this one isn’t written yet and will only happen if I find the time.
• 8.8 Ubisoft go shopping. Some analysis of what is going on here.
• 11.8 Charging for Microsoft Xbox Live. A popular issue at the moment.

Enjoy. Approving of comments will be much slower as I may not get to a computer for days at a time.