PixlBit

This may come off as pretentious but one of the main reasons I started blogging was because one of my favorite gaming news sites closed down, 1UP.com. I really enjoyed their personal blog style approach to the gaming industry and reviews, so I felt like I needed to keep that going in some fashion or another. I recently blogged about the closure of Joystiq.com and Massively.com. While Joystiq covered news, reviews and gaming industry as a whole in a personal bloggin style, Massively.com mainly stuck to MMOs, but with a similar writing style to 1up.com and now they are no more. I've actually noticed the absense now and I have to rely on other boring news sites and newsletters from devs to keep track of all the changes and updates. It's pretty terrible. Massively did such a good job of covering so many MMOs at once, assigning one writer to each game and they had a really great way of streamlining and distiliing important information down to easily consumable personal blogs. I'm finding it nearly impossible to keep up with all the news and updates now, where before I just needed to visit their front page and have instant access to news. Good God!  They turned me on to a lot of my favorite MMOs after raving about them.

-Asreal