About GameLedge
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Posted December 4th, 2006 at 1:21pm
by Matt Brett
GameLedge is a web site created, written, edited, and even designed and maintained by gamers, for gamers. We all love games, every one of us, from the Publisher (Rob) Senior News Editor (Devin) to the Server Guru (Kit) to the guy who designed this site (Matt Brett). Everyone here has a passion for games, and a good sense of humor and we hope that it shows in the work we do, if you can even call it work. We call it having a good time.
GameLedge is on a mission to redefine the traditional gaming website. You see, our authors have all been frustrated with the in your face commercialism of the larger, corporate owned website (we won’t name names; you know who we’re talkin’ about). That’s why at GameLedge we have a self-imposed limit on the number of ad zones on each page of the site. We have three standard ad zones on each page, plus a few text links at the bottom of the home page. Our ads aren’t huge and overpowering like those other sites that have 5 or 6 ads to a page, some of which take up more space than the actual gaming content.
What else are we frustrated with? Long, rambling articles that make you sit through multiple pages worth of reading before you can figure out whether or not a game is worth your time. We’ll get to the point and cut to the chase. Our articles are shorter, they’re funnier (we hope), and the only tell you what you need to know. Also, we put our rating information right at the top of the page, so you can skip the rest of the article if we’ve reviewed a stinker.
At our core, we are gamers. We know what its like to camp out overnight for a console, or be forced to buy a bundle of games we don’t want just to get one online (but only after hitting the reload button a few hundred times to make sure we got in before the store sold out). We know what its like to see a game like Halo, or Half-Life 2 for the first time and not be able to pick your jaw up off the floor. We know what it’s like to be strung along by the people who still claim to be working on a certain piece of vaporware. We know what its like to be taunted by some 12 year old puke on Xbox Live, and we know the sweet release of smacking them down (and the bitter defeat when they occasionally smack us down instead). Gamers, that’s what we are.
What we aren’t is a bunch of fan boys. We don’t break out the pom-poms and pray that one company’s game/console/service sells more than another. We just want to have fun, and we don’t care who gives us that fun as long as they give it to us on a regular basis.
Here at GameLedge you’ll find news, reviews, and the occasional interview about all the next generation games for the next generation systems (The Xbox 360, The Wii, The PS3, and even games for Windows). On our review pages you can click a link to go buy the game at amazon.com if you want (and this helps support us too so we can bring you more reviews and stuff). We’ve got big plans for this site, and what you see here, while great, is only a 1.0 to us. We’re dedicated to improving it with more features and other enhancements as we go along.
Welcome to Game Ledge, you’re amongst friends.
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