No more Gaming pic of the Week

We skipped last Tuesday's Gaming pic of the Week, because of the lack of a quality picture to post. Today it's Tuesday again and I still couldn't find any. Therefore, I decided to stop the Gaming pic of the Week "section".

I'll still continue to post fun gaming pictures on an irregular basis (whenever I find some good ones), but I won't do it every Tuesday like I did before now.

Stay tuned though, as I'll soon make a quick review of the ones posted to this day, so that we can end this properly. I wish I could've continued to post them regularly, but this is something that doesn't depend on me.

In the meanwhile, have a great week and don't forget to follow iTalkGames on Twitter, as I'm planning on launching a contest once I reach 1000 followers.

Blog traffic observations

I know I've posted more non-gaming blog updates lately, but I did say when I started Talk Games Online that this blog is by itself an experiment. So don't panic.

The experiment is showing more and more results to me and I managed to gather valuable data for what's to come (I can't say more about it at this time).

Speaking of which, the blog finally has enough traffic for trends to be somewhat viewable now. So I noticed an interesting fact: the weekly traffic peak is on Thursdays. And it's so obvious that it saddened me each Friday during the last few weeks when I saw the traffic dropping a bit on Fridays.

But then I set myself the right mind frame and realized that the traffic wasn't dropping on Fridays, but was simply increasing slowly until Thursdays, peaking that day, then going back to normal.

It's quite interesting to notice that traffic is lower in the weekends (after the aforementioned peak), but I guess people need more distractions during the week, maybe to get some fun or simply some reading after a hard day's work (at their job or school).

Also, sorry for not posting the Gaming pic of the Week this Tuesday. I didn't find anything worth posting, so I preferred not to, rather than posting something bad.

That being said, stay tuned for more stuff cool. Have a fantastic weekend!

Gaming pic of the Week #15 - Rockstar Logic

Hello guys! As I promised last week and this Tuesday, it's time for the second Gaming pic this week, to make up for the skipped one and get back on track.

New gaming YouTube channel - Villain Zone

Villain Zone is a brand new gaming channel on YouTube, which promises to bring original content to the table - one of a kind exclusive reviews for indie games (and not only), awesome gameplay videos and cool walkthroughs with commentaries.

Gaming pic of the Week #14 - Video Game Platforms as Teachers

After our short "vacation", we're back with the Gaming pic of the Week we should have posted last Tuesday. To try and make it up to you, we're posting it as early as we can - in fact, earlier in the day than we ever posted a picture, or an article altogether.

We're back!

In the past week there hasn't been much (visible) activity around here. Even the Gaming pic of the Week that you got used to seeing every Tuesday has been missing.

As I said in a previous post, I have been busy making some changes in the back-end of the blog, changes that now start to reflect in website traffic analytics.

But now we're finally back and things will be more awesome than ever. Don't worry, we'll make the time you spent waiting worth it and we won't just leave the last week be skipped. Instead, we'll post two Gaming pics of the Week the following days, one Tuesday as usually and one some couple of days later or so.

Thank you guys for understanding. Cheers!

Gaming pic of the Week #13 - Gay Mario

Welcome to the 13th edition of Gaming pic of the Week, a number that's very lucky for us. Why? Cause I say so and cause I don't believe in bad luck. :D

This Tuesday we have another cool comic with quite an interesting turn of events. Our friendly plumber Mario is even friendlier than we though. Check it out below.

End of September poll

Another month went by and with it one more poll closed. It's time to take a look at it and see what the people decided.

Gaming pic of the Week - Review #1

We've had 12 posts in the Gaming pic of the Week category so far and the 13th is approaching rapidly. So, just like we did last Tuesday with the quotes, we should review what we had so far.

Gamer's Anthem - Fight to Win

I've known this song since it came out (more than a year ago), but I never thought of posting it here until now. Fight to Win is a song by Your Favorite Martian, a band having Internet celebrity Ray William Johnson as the lead vocalist.

Gaming quote of the Week - Review!

I started Gaming quote of the Week in mid-July and although I stopped posting regularly in this category, I did not end it completely. Even so, let's take a look at what we had so far:

Gaming pic of the Week #12 - Monopoly

Today we have a more different image for the Gaming pic of the Week. Even though it's related to games, it's not related to what we're used to call gaming. It's about the board game Monopoly. Enjoy!

Gaming pic of the Week #11 - Gamer Shame

It's time for another awesome gaming pic and this time we'll keep things short. So enjoy!

Looking for content writers

Talk Games Online has grown over the past few months and it now requires a more constant stream of articles in order to expand to the next level.

Gaming quote of the Week ends now!

We've been together for 7 editions of the Gaming quote of the Week sections. Today it is time to retire it. I know I got you all used that every Thursday a new quote will be posted here, but things have to change sometimes.

Gaming pic of the Week #10 - Girl Ninjas

Finally the 10th "edition" of the Gaming pic of the Week has arrived. These past two and a half months since we started this have been really great. We enjoyed together many epic pictures and I'm sure we will in the time that follows.

Gaming quote of the Week #7

This week we have a very popular game quote, coming from a 1988 video game. 16-bit shoot'em up game Zero Wing is remembered to this day for it's poor grammar, due to being translated to English by a person who, well, sucked at it.

The following quote from Zero Wing went viral on the Internet in the 2000s:

All your base are belong to us.

To keep the context, here is the entire dialogue containing this quote:

Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It’s you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha …
Operator: Captain !!
Captain: Take off every ‘ZIG’!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move ‘ZIG’.
Captain: For great justice.

As you can see this game was abundant in spelling errors, making many more lines worth remembering. It is sad though that few of the people who know the quote actually know where it came from.

Well, that's it for today. Come back next week for another dose of game quotations.

Gaming pic of the Week #9 - Game Break

It's Tuesday again and after being late last week, I now wanted to post this Gaming pic of the Week just in time. Today it's all about gaming's superiority over animals.

New poll for September 2012

It's September, school starts, so it's time for a new poll. This time, about game (player) modes. So go ahead and check out the top of the blog's sidebar, right below where it says "Favorite game mode?".

We're on Twitter too!

A bit more than a month ago I announced that I created a Facebook page for Talk Games Online. Well, now I have even more good news for you all - I also made a Twitter account.