1/18/2011 11:23:21 PM
Larry L.
( Larry L. )
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This may be old news to some of you, but for the rest, I just wanted to let you know that ABG'ers Tom Rosen and I will be contributors to a new gaming website scheduled to debut next Monday (1/24). It's called The Opinionated Gamer (http://opinionatedgamers.com/) and it's basically intended to take the place of the articles and reviews that used to appear on Boardgame News before it folded. When it became apparent that BGN would be restricted to just news when it moved to the Geek, Dale Yu started asking around to see if people had any interest in contributing to a site that WOULD provide opinion pieces, as BGN had done. He got a lot of positive responses; in fact, here is the current list of contributors:
Greg Aleknevicus
Jeff Allers
Ted Alspach
Frank Branham
Pat Brennan
Matt Carlson
Ted Cheatham
Jonathan Franklin
Doug Garrett
Kris Hall
Lucas Hedgren
Matt Horn
Wei-Hwa Huang
Joe Huber
Mark Jackson
Stephanie Kelleher
Patrick Korner
Larry Levy
Andrea Ligabue
Fraser McHarg
James Miller
John Palagyi
Mary Prasad
Valerie Putman
Melissa Rogerson
Tom Rosen
Greg Schloesser
Mike Siggins
Rick Thornquist
Brian Yu
Dale Yu
Dale will serve as editor, although that mostly means he gets stuck with the grunt work of site maintenance, while the rest of us just get to write.
One of Dale's suggestions that was very well received is doing collaborative reviews. The idea is, someone writes the primary review in some detail, then other folks follow that with a paragraph or two and a rating. This way, you get different views of the same game from different perspectives. I think this will be a unique feature that I hope a lot of readers will enjoy.
The plan is to have one new article a day for every weekday. With over 30 contributors, hopefully we'll be able to maintain this schedule without suffering from the kind of burnout that sank Gone Gaming and other similar websites. At any rate, it should be fun and I hope a bunch of you stop by to see what we're writing about (and to make a comment if the mood strikes you). See you there next Monday.
Larry
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1/19/2011 10:54:18 PM
JohnKerr
( John Kerr)
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Thanks for the heads up, Larry... best of luck to all of you in the new venture. I'll be checking it out come Monday!
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