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It's been a while. I stopped by to check on you guys.

I have been busy. Playing old games, playing a couple of new ones, laptops breaking down, have a cold, making a local magazine. Other stuff too.

We changed the name of Insert Coin and launched a new games site last week. It's still early, there are some bugs, especially with IE but its coming along. Hope to have it improve presentationally.

It's here: http://www.thevgpress.com

It's all gamespot or ex-gamespot posters you know, basically a swap from Gamingeek Weekly to Insert Coin to VGPress.

The big change is forums, yes there is now a board. No modding except for porn.

This is the front page:

It has a static page per week with a couple of fake stories on the front written by users.

This is the profile page with your own blogs and your friends blogs tracked.

The forums have one board, just a general board but now you can have your own threads, vote them up and down and chat about anything you like. There is no off topic restriction.

Finally, the sites premiere feature continues, GGWeekly is an open source news update page where as a member you can update with any story/preview/review you see. All the news comes thick and fast each day, yet is logically held and displayed on one page per week and refreshed every Monday morning. We generally all hang out there.

We need some more guys for new views and chat and more fun. You can do whatever you like really, as we do. Post stupid youtube videos, post pictures of scantily clad ladies (no nudity allowed), chat about games and news and make podcasts. It's pretty cool. It's early as the site is less than a week old, has some bugs and presentationally isn't all there yet, but hopefully these issues will be ironed out in the coming months and years.

If I don't see you guys there, merry christmas, miss you guys. Bye.

Gamingeek weekly is no more.

So it's over, an epic tale of love and descruction, of mice and men, broken phone lines and exiles in bloom. A tale of excessive swearing, broken anii, bats, news and comedy.

So how do I feel now that the epic news blog is dead? It's an interesting question and one that's not easy to answer. The first one is proud. It ran for 9 weeks, actually 10 if you count the test week and that makes it something like 75 days of daily updates. Weekends? Holidays? Pfft. I was there. I updated at break times, I missed lunch to post, I always tried to make sure that the front page had something there for people to read.

Statistically speaking, 9 weeks, well over 1000 updates, over 7125 views. Roughly between 20-30 updates per day, everyday. There were enough updates to cover the entire front page of a forum like NeoGAF or GGD, on a daily basis.

So I guess the second feeling I have is exhaustion. Maaaaan. Taking a personal blog page and turning it into something else... well it just shows how the format, construction wise is not fit for purpose. It was so much hassle, so slow, there were glitches, weird tags, saved txt files, multiple windows. Ehhh.

Grateful, I feel grateful to Yodariquo firstly for adding a skin and comment editor to the feature. I also feel great, great that I could still talk with my good old GSpot buddies and provide a place where people felt comfortable. Relieved is also another emotion. Now instead of being an all purpose news blog, I now have a place where I can muse. I couldn't post personal blog entries..... on my personal blog as the feature was dominating.

But Gamingeek Weekly isn't dead, it has evolved, moved to: Insert Coin Everything now works like a technical dream. Posting news is a lot easier, the page is faster loading, less glitchy, everything tends to be a lot more reliable to boot.

It's been a wild ride and I hope people enjoyed it, I know it was only 9 weeks but it feels like an epic chunk of internet life and it's now continuing in its new home.

So let me know what you think, how it went and pop back in here from time to time, I'm going to keep my blog where it is for the time being: gamingeek.1up.com it's good HTML practice and I feel like I need to keep my own little slice of the internet in a secluded burg.

If you want to check out the feature on Insert Coin (link above) than click on the GG Weekly tab at the top of the page, it's completely formed from gamespot users you know, active posters include:

• Dvader
• Yodariquo
• Edgecrusher
• Gamingeek
• Ravenprose
• Dencore
• HiResDes
• SteelAttack
• Iga Bobovic
• Foolz
• Yarcofin
• Bugsonglasses
• Phantom Leo

...and more. It's notable that some people on that list such as Bugs, Edge, Dencore, Ravenprose and Gamingeek (myself) are not posting on gamespot whatsoever, others are reducing their time here, so if you want to see us than it's a good idea to pop over. Hope to see Dutch mix and Aspro former GG Weekly posters there as well some more of my gamespot chumwads.