With the ability to purchase a domain and set up a website, a lot of gaming fans have been able to launch their own gaming sites, in an effort to maybe become one of the Big Guns like Kotaku or Joystiq. However, to do that would require you getting maybe a few million hits daily. To get there, admins need to come up with inventive posts of get some easy hits.
Since most of the big sites still get exclusive access to news, previews and media, many small sites need to figure out way of bringing other news to the table. So what do they do? They post info from industry top dogs' Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, they sometimes steal screen shots from sites that may never appear on N4G and recently a big trend was to post pics of random Cosplay chics under titles like Cosplay Girl of the Week: OMG TITS.
The reason many sites like IGN, Joystiq and so on do well is because they spend years in the industry and have staff who actually play games, and not just post a bunch of lude pics of so-called cosplay girls. Also, with the number of years in service and the countless number of readworthy articles, they have built up a reputation for themselves causing a number of fans to become loyal to their site, bringing them back time and time again.
Do you think posting about cosplay chics will build your reputation? I mean YES, it works for a quick burst of hits, especially when the post hits the front page of N4G where a number of young gamers browse. It's a sure way to get hits, but does it build an audience? Does it add to your quality archive of information? Does it add value to the gaming industry? NO!
So please take a hint and stop posting these types of articles. It will add no long term value to your site, you will not be able to build a proper audience, and for those interested in making money of your blogs, advertisers won't be too happy about the type of content you deliver. Also we at N4G are fed up of it. :)
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Don't care for the article but I sure like the picture. :P
On your next blog can you get rid of the unneccesary text and post more Cosplay girls?
Thanks.
I get that picture DUD...
you guys are pathetic
A while back it was posted as news some garbage site which had top 100 cosplay girls. Now, that is fine by me for such an article to exist but I posted a comment that this was not in the strictest sense news. I got about 10 replies and some pretty offensive PMs calling me everything from a homosexual to a closet paedo who couldn't stand to look at women like a real man, reported to mods who did sweet FA.
Unfortunately, while there are still idiots out there who think this is great and N4Gs lazy mods do nothing to implement any form of quality control on the articles on the site, things will not change and these sites will keep doing this to get easy hits from 12 year olds (possibly mental age rather than physical).