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James Gill, sent the call out for his readers to review his blog, and that is exactly what I am doing here.

First of all who is James Gill? Well he is a student in the UK who will soon be going to college and has fantastic art skills, thus he has a strong interest in web and graphic design. He only recently (like me) wound up in the wonderful world that is blogging, and so far he is really making a mark.
JamesGill.me.uk has been around for about month now, and he has already managed to captivate quite a large audience far bigger than mine considering that I have been around for a few months longer. So he is doing exceptionally well.

The theme that he is using for his blog is rather ‘dirty’, (pun intended) No I am just joking his theme is very unique and thats part of what makes him stand out from the crowd of all the other blogs in the vast blogosphere.

He has all the typical stuff that you would expect to find on a blog, funny videos and the like. James however also has a more formal side to his blog where he discusses the things that he is learning about blogging specifically exploring all of the different lanes for monetizing you blog, which is well worth taking a look through. I will list a few of the posts that I found to be interesting on his blog later on.

James, does his blogging very simply by that I mean he does not really have very big blog posts, (This post would be far longer than most of his posts) which is a good thing as it is short and straight to the point. However when he is giving a write up about ad networks I would personally give a bit more a of a description about them, rather than just the typical ‘New Ad-Network, I am going to be trying network blah blah blah’ I would be writing up what is unique, what separates xyz network from the others if you get my drift. Unless of course thats why he has quite a large blog, because not everyone wants to hear the ins and outs of every thing. I however do . (Take my big Tremulous review for example.) Take this latest post, its a new ad network he has found could use some expanding.

Well I think that I have rambled on far enough in this review of James blog I hope you like it. But quickly here are a few posts he has made that I found to be rather cool/interesting/informal.

• Another 1,384 Of Me, Somewhere
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This is one of the best Nintendo Wii case mods I have seen. It is a case mod for the die hard Zelda fans out there, it even has the Hyrule shield on the side and the master sword that can be removed so you can have a little play with it.

The blue LED lights that are in the Wii disc drive have been replaced with white LED’s that are continuously on rather than only when you have a message or loading a disc and there is also 4 LED’s behind the shield that cast that awesome light you can see. It is on auction at eBay. So if you really want it you better start bidding, part of the proceeds will be donated to Childs Play.

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy first pic from them as well]

Gamerzines are proud to announce that they will be launching a new Gamerzine on March the 22nd, which coincides of being the day before the European and Australian launch of the PS3. If you haven’t guessed yet what this *zine is, its P3Zine a gamerzine dedicated to the Playstation 3. Just like 360Zine, PCGZine and HGZine. P3Zine will be written by some of the top game journalists, and also just like the sister magazines will be published for free as an interactive, multimedia enhanced PDF downloadable from the Gamerzines site.

So far we know that the launch issue will cover every title that launches with the PS3 in Europe.

From the founders of wikipedia comes a gaming wiki, gaming.wikia.com is a wiki dedicated to gaming. Pretty much all there is to it, your normal wiki but having a specific target of gaming, so anyone can write up an article about one of their favourite games or, contribute to the many articles that are there/spawning soon. Will this be in direct competition with Strategy wiki? Time will tell and there certainly is plenty of room for gaming wiki’s, I think that this will only be the beginning.

Gamerzines, 360Zine issue 4 is out now and there is as always loads of 360 news, previews and interviews inculding a big one with Ken Levine Creative Director of Bioshock, a hot new up coming game for the 360 that has already won many awards and is on the wanted list for most die hard 360 fans.

Inside 360Zine this month:

• 5 page exclusive to 360Zine extravaganza on Bioshock, including a preview and massive 3 page exclusive interview with Ken Levine Creative Director for Bioshock.
• Previews:
  • Frontlines : Fuel of War
  • Brothers In Arms : Hell’s Highway
  • Sega Rally
• Reviews:
  • GRAW 2
  • Bullet Witch
  • UEFA Champions League 2007
  • NBA Street Home Court
  • Brian Lara Cricket
• Be sure to check the 360Zine community section featuring a 360Zine clan challenge
• Do I really have to say it or do we know by now? That there is much much more to 360Zine than your normal magazine

Download 360Zine Issue 4, and start reading!

3 new Super Paper Mario trailers have emerged from the GDC.

Check them out here.

A large amount of new information for Stargate Worlds is warping out due to the recent GDC, and right now all the interviews are coming online.

I have sumarised the main new points here:

• Game play taking place between season 3 through to season 8
• Story line and content is being closely developed with Brad Wright and Robert Cooper
• Time shifting game mechanics
• Get 10 hours worth of game play out of each of the worlds in Stargate Worlds
• Anywhere between 35 to 58 worlds will be explorable in game
• Game devs have access to props from the Stargate TV series
• Content added both to the show and the game
• PVP system
• Possibility of actors from the series being in the game?
• Combat optimised for squad based tactics
• Naquadah is the currency that will be used in SGW

Some great new screen shots have also emerged from the GDC which can be found at the sites listed below.

Check out these sources for more SGW intel:

• RPG Vault :IGN
• Gamespot
• TenTonHammer

New Crysis V RL pictures. They are awesome again reconfirming how awesome this game really is going to be, where there any doubts though? Of course not.

[Via Fatadam pic from Fatadam]

C&C 3:Tiberium Wars has just gone gold,it will be in stores March 30th. I can’t wait for this game after dissapointment with the demo not installing for me

Commentating on other peoples blog is like a snowball, the more comments you make the more you practice your writing, and you generate ideas for your own posts (This post came to me whilst commenting on another blog). But just as important as generating ideas and practicing your English skills you get your blog out to the public, out to your best audience fellow bloggers.

You can gain some ‘linkage’ from commentating on fellow bloggers blogs by:

• Getting into their top commentators list
• The owner of that site noticing your blog and finding an interesting article and linking back to you
• Other bloggers noticing your blog and finding interesting articles that are worth linking to
• Other bloggers linking to you not only gives you more links and potential traffic (duh) but if the post the blogger has written is good and is scrapped with a link to you in it you get the extra link as well

As you can see the list could be endless and one of the best ways of generating a vibe for your blog and attracting new readers is getting your blog out there in the blogosphere, and leaving comments is just one of the many great ways of doing this.

To other people this shows them that you are interested in their blog, they often check out the commentators site (I usually always do) other commentators notice you, the snowball starts.