VGB TURNS 20 YEARS OLD TODAY! WOW! As Albert Einstein stated in one in every of my favourite video games Command & Conquer: Crimson Alert “Time will inform. Ultimately, time will inform…” And time certain flies once 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 after I began engaged on VGB again in October of 2005 with the purpose of serving to players take pleasure in gaming extra with information, critiques and guides. Solely to launch it a month later, sooner or later earlier than the Xbox 360 console launched. And instances, they’re a altering… Whereas 5 years again Microsoft’s Xbox Collection X / S and Sony’s PlayStation 5 consoles launched the ninth era of online game consoles, this Summer season of 2025 we obtained 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. Virtually HALF A BILLION of you’ve got visited us over 20 years! An insane quantity! 😮 Our web site server nonetheless burns by means of 5 TerraBytes of knowledge every month! Players are the most effective world 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 related we’re regardless of our variations.
Particular because of my people, my lovely household and dependable pals for at all times supporting me. What began as a dream to weblog about video video games as a pastime changed into 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 occupation. It’s why I nonetheless love updating the web site each week. I took the blue ocean strategy Nintendo is known 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 laborious, fortunately I don’t must work that a lot nowadays). 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 for those who’ve ever contributed to the weblog, or perhaps we simply chatted that one time, I’ll at all times recognize 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 music.
