VGB TURNS 20 YEARS OLD TODAY! WOW! As Albert Einstein mentioned in one in every of my favourite video games Command & Conquer: Crimson Alert “Time will inform. In the end, time will inform…” And time positive flies whenever you’re having enjoyable! Time to as soon as extra blow out a birthday candle to make a want for a lot of extra years to come back! 😀
It actually was a lifetime in the past once I began engaged on VGB again in October of 2005 with the purpose of serving to avid gamers take pleasure in gaming extra with information, opinions and guides. Solely to launch it a month later, someday earlier than the Xbox 360 console launched. And instances, they’re a altering… Whereas 5 years again Microsoft’s Xbox Sequence X / S and Sony’s PlayStation 5 consoles launched the ninth technology of online game consoles, this Summer time of 2025 we received Nintendo’s Change 2 console-handheld hybrid and this month an announcement for Valve’s first PC-console hybrid Steam Machine coming in 2026! What a time to be a gamer. ^_^
Thanks all a lot for visiting VGB over time. Nearly HALF A BILLION of you have got visited us over 20 years! An insane quantity! 😮 Our web site server nonetheless burns by means of 5 TerraBytes of information every month! Players are the most effective international neighborhood there may be. As at all times, I really feel that’s as a result of all of us have a shared recollections of our favourite video video games that makes us acknowledge how comparable we’re regardless of our variations.
Particular because of my people, my stunning household and dependable mates for at all times supporting me. What began as a dream to weblog about video video games as a interest was a full-on profession, because of my advert company Playwire for serving to to make my wildest goals come true to personal a home, automotive, and semi-retire at 35, loopy stuff in a world the place video games journalism is the worst paying career. It’s why I nonetheless love updating the web site each week. I took the blue ocean strategy Nintendo is legendary for (learn Reggie & Iwata’s books for inspirational quotes) and dealing 112 hour weeks for over 10 years paid off (no shortcuts there; you simply gotta work onerous, fortunately I don’t need to work that a lot as of late). Due to Josh, Laura, Toni et al for masking all the most recent gaming information like a professional for a few years alongside me. And in the event you’ve ever contributed to the weblog, or perhaps we simply chatted that one time, I’ll at all times respect the time we spent collectively. Players rule the world! 🙂
GAME ON! 😀
PS: From one in every of my Prime 10 favourite video games, right here is Tremendous Mario 64’s epic credit tune.
