I have a new gaming blog at www.gaminghonsou.com. This site will take a back seat, since I ruined it with the forum and can not get rid of the traffic looking for free music downloads. If you have any interest in gaming, drop on by and let me know what you think of the blog.
Its been over a year since my last blog entry. The last time I was on here I was messing with the AdSense settings, made them pretty ugly and then left it at that. I have always wondered what to do with this website, but considering it also has the worse address (what was I thinking!) I am not sure how I want to work with what I have.
Sadly, I know no html, so I cant create something I envisage in my mind. I have no idea how I got this blog up and running, so I really a stuck with what I got. The plan before was solely to get traffic, in any way, shape or form with a few crudely written articles which I had some experience in . Since then, I want something more from my little place on the Internets. I want to write some game reviews and hardware reviews.
I always feel that I am being way over pretentious with my writing style (along side with bad grammar and english in general), but If I don’t give it a go, then I will aways be wondering how I can successfully write and publish any article I choose to write, let alone what to write about.
So, perhaps the terrible, unexciting and vague address name has a point. What if I just throw everything here, and not worry about traffic, SEO or anything else like that which took up 90% of my time working on this blog. Hopefully in the coming weeks, I can write something I can be proud of, instead of writing something just to gain traffic. This blog was created with not so great intentions, trying to jump on a long gone bandwagon. Maybe now It can be what I want it to be, and hopefully the readers will come finding what they are looking for, instead of a dreary, boring, AdSense plastered blog with no content.
Kye.
I had to take down the forum. The forum I was using was not admin friendly, and would not let me cull the huge amount of spam that accumulated there. I feel very guilty for the two people who did make genuine posts. If you ever find yourselves back on this blog, make a comment and I will definitely get back to you!
I have learnt a few key things in running a blog with ads. I had wanted a site that I could put alot of my interests on. What I wanted to do is pretty unrealistic considering I cant design my own website, and a jack of no trades blog is a bad way to go around things. My RSI article gets the most hits. I could probably dedicate a whole site to RSI and gaming, and would actually have some success with it, since its all centered and together. The same with gaming. All it need is a good article once a month, a very good article and then some patience. Only recently I have been getting hits for my small ArmA 2 post (which I only got a week ago, amazing game and highly recommended!).
I have not had much interest in blogging or working on this site because of the necessity of good articles that had to cover so much in order to get the traffic to get the sought after clicks. If I had a gaming blog or a RSI blog, no matter how informal or unprofessional it would be, it would eventually have some form of decent traffic, a tiny community and a small extra revinue to fund the hosting.
Lastly, the ads. I cant for the life of me change them. They are very ugly, and more importently unrelated because of the broad nature of the blog. The RSI sometimes has an investment ad. I also experimented with them before giving up, so they are oddly colored.
Anyway, summery of my failure;
I think I will try and change this in the coming months. Even if I have a gaming blog and a RSI/gaming site, it would help so much more and keep me focused. I suggest anyone else trying to get into blogging for a tiny extra bit of money to do the same. If you have alot of interests, keep them in one site at a time.
Kye.
If anyone has ever played Baulders Gate 2: Shadow of Amn, then they will know how brilliant that game was. It was (and still is) the most in-depth RPG game ever created. Branching quests, interesting dialog and options to respond in ways that would change the course of the game from then on. You could even experiment on an idea that you might be able to join the vampires on the second chapter, and you almost can! The dialog involved around just that is incredible. Also, if you had a warrior, you could eventually own your own castle! I cant explain in so many words how cool this was, every so often you could return, and something would happen. You could end up having to decide the fate of farmers, murders, giving out rewards or punishments for various scenarios, and eventually have a big quest involving an siege. No game ever since has gone into that much depth. The vampires and the castle are just two of probably 100s of different things that you would shape yourself.
Now, Dragons Age. When i first heard of Dragons age, i was very excited. This was probably two years ago in a gaming magazine. When i heard it was the spiritual successor to Baulders Gate 2, i was thinking about everything great about the first game, and how new graphics and that could shape the older game into a new, exciting, vibrant and violent experience.
However…
Since the older games and there amazing depth has slowly disappeared, replaced by mainstream money- makers, not alot of the newer rpgs have been great. In the quest to deal with the mainstream, the niche of hardcore rpg fans have been sidelined. I think dragons age will be a good game, but not the game older fans will want. It will be like fallout 3 to the fallout franchise; Alot of fun, but not really fallout.
The past trailers for Dragons Age have shown that you will probably have two or three choices, and no more in whatever decision making dialog options you make. Maybe a bit of depth, but ultimately the same two or three outcomes. Secondly, the kind of depth you had in BG2, is kind of split between the different characters you pick from the start. This is bad because you can expect what to happen, or how npc’s will react, and will pick your character with that in your mind.
Anyway, that’s my rant over. I wanted to update my blog, and also see how this post will effect my traffic and adsense ads. If your a hardcore gamer and find this, feel free to post this a link in your favourate forum, so you don’t have to type a wall of text.
Kye.
It’s been a good while since I have worked on this. After realising making money from the net is not as easy as some people suggest, it has deterred me from posting anything new. When i feel compelled to write something, I am reminded of my terrible domain name, and cant see why anyone would want to read anything on a website called infohub101. The name was great at the time, but it does not give the feeling i would want for a normal blog. I am not sure how I would start again, but i do not have the energy to begin from scratch.
Anyway, I wanted to put on here a trailer, IL 2@: Birds of prey. I enjoyed the first two games in the series, and although this game is much more arcade, I think it will be alot of fun. I don’t have the time that i used to have planning and running a mission that took one hour to fly there, fifteen minutes of action and then flying back, so this kind of pace in the new one should fit around my work, girlfriend and Eve (a full time mmo).
Another game I’m really looking forward to is Dragons Age. It is suppose to be the spiritual successor to Baulders Gate 2, but any real fan of that game will know it will not have the huge branching quests. I don’t blame bioware for making the game more focused. A bigger and better Baulders Gate would only cater for a few hardcore rpg fans. Even so, it looks brilliant. There hasn’t been many good rpg’s out on the PC for a while, and this one will probably be rpg of 2009.
This is just a trailer. I would recommend that you should youtube it and watch some of the official game play videos. Enjoy!
Kai.
Since learning the hard way about niches, I have my first thought out plan for a website which I will try and subsidise my income on. It requires html and css knowledge, something I do not have. I have a very good book on the subject, but self motivation while using the same computer that has your favourite mmo is not a great idea.
Anyway, apart from the big website, I am also making up a format for game sites. My eve online blog is not successful, but it will be. If i have any other game I spend alot of time on, it is easy to add content on it and have some form of success by traffic and affiliates. Other subjects are not viable, like hardware or game reviews. There are to many hardware sites as it is, and game reviews takes (me) days to write.
Once I get the site up, I will let people know how it is getting on and if I am making anything with it.
Kye.
I started this site to try and make somthing out of writing articles and guides. This was after making my Eve online blog. I neglected the Eve blog to work on infohub101. After some consideration, infohub101 is becoming my personal blog with everything that has an interest to me. When i checked back on the eve blog after a few months, it is doing much more successful even with half the content. Its all in the keywords! One mmo game will of course be very niche, so even very common game phrases im getting hits.
Its a shame about the name of this site. It is very generic, but if I have the money I will change it to something a bit more personal, and stop putting people off its formal tone.
Kye.
When I changed my SEO page to a post, it ended up being put on many automated feed sites. This gave me a large increase of traffic (large compared to the normal passers by). I’m still not sure if I like the idea of my post on many of these sites, but probably more worrying is that the post is not ready to be viewed like that. If I knew the post was going to get some attention, I would of fleshed it out more and made it more worthwhile, but I guess its not a problem.
It at least proves to me I can post and not worry about page SEO.
Kye.
I have posted three times today, and to view them properly people will have to use the category sidebar. If I can make my pages link to categories then we will have some functionality for this site. Till then, it is still a frustrating issue trying to have the pages work how I want to, let alone the SEO problems it causes.
Kye.
I tried the ArmA 2 demo yesterday. It is getting good reviews and should be the same kind of experience but better from ArmA 1. Maybe its my computer, but my biggest complaint is the haze. Its like your playing someone who is shortsighted. The voice acting is pretty bad as well, which does not help with the mouth animation when someone is talking. It looks terrible.
The haze issue for me makes it unplayable, but im 99% sure its my end, and the voice and mouth animations are really nothing once you get stuck in a firefight. I will probably buy the game because of the reviews. ArmA 1 is a brilliant game with many memorable moments so im looking foward to the second once I fix the haze. The head bobbing is slightly disorientating but feels very authentic, I can imagine the game gets pretty intense.
In case you never heard of ArmA 1, here is the official trailer.
Kye.
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