I am obsessed with my site stats – probably the baseball fan inside me. I track my traffic, look for patterns, try to understand why it comes (posts) and goes (lack of posts) and why some pages blow up big at certain times. For 2010 thus far, the top ten searches that bring people to […]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogs'
Flash of Steel/Three Moves Ahead Washington DC Area Meetup?
April 23rd, 2010 · 14 Comments · Blogs, Me, Podcast
One of the great things about being addicted to stats and traffic is that I have a good idea where my blog visitors and podcast post commenters are from. And I know I have a local audience that I’ve done nothing for. Not that meeting me is necessarily a good thing for everyone, but I […]
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Making Time
April 8th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Blogs, Me
The big problem with being a strategy gamer is that so many of them take a lot of time. I’m still slowly working my way through the Command & Conquer 4 campaign. I want to put more time into Distant Worlds. I want to get to the RUSE beta before it expires – maybe later […]
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The Flash of Steel Store
March 19th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Blogs, Me
I wasn’t sure I wanted to do this. First, the product quality may not be up to my readers’ discerning standards. Second, it feels like I’m grubbing for money when I already have ads on the site. Third, well, it may be a little tacky in the end so we’ll see how long I do […]
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New Solium Infernum Guides
March 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on New Solium Infernum Guides · Blogs, Cryptic Comet
He’s a little late to the party, but Bill Harris has written up some amazing beginners’ guides for Vic Davis’ latest masterpiece, Solium Infernum. Harris did a great job with his Armageddon Empires guides, and he’s doing well here, too. I’ll admit to having not played SI in a while. I had some MP games […]
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Vic Davis Interview
February 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Blogs, Cryptic Comet, Indie Games, Industry
Over at Game, Set, Watch Phil Cameron conducted an interview with Vic Davis, the genius behind Armageddon Empires and Solium Infernum. GSW is one of the best newsblogs on the internet, partly because it is so willing to giving space to indie games in a serious way. This is part of their IGF/Gamasutra mission, I […]
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