Blogshare's 3 Gamer blogs

So I am an avid video gamer so the subject I chose to explore was of course, video gaming.

The first blog I encountered was called "Good Gamer Bad Gamer". It had the subtitle "Articles and Reviews +fair and balanced news...kinda". That sets the tone for this creative blog that is far from formal. On the bottom there is a "disclaimer" that says that the don't care if you copy their material, but the search engines won't like the duplicate content. Despite these seemingly amature sensibilities, the blog is layed out nicely and there are quite a few advertisers on it including google. The target audience is any gamer that is looking for fun news or reviews on the Internet. The font of the title is in a type of old school video game text to keep with the gaming theme. The background is black and the posts are light blue. On the left there is a column of alphabetical labels for those who want to quickly find an article or post depending on a keyword. To the right of that, there is a columns listing the most recent articles by title. To the right, the most recent post is opened and readable. A look at this reveals what makes the blog unique and why its name is what it is. It is basically a user review first reviewed by the "good gamer", who has an optimistic view of that game and then the "bad gamer", who only points out the game's flaws. Finally at the bottom there is a final verdict written by the writer :good bad average above average...etc. After actually reading the content of the review I can say that after reading professional game reviews, this one is quite colloquial and sometimes even hard to follow. The goal seems to be more to be funny that to sum up the game. Still, the good vs. bad gamer gimmick is interesting.

The next one if found, which confirms my suspicion that my list is not actually the ranked list, is called zOne Gamerz. This blog has not been updated since November of last year. It has a black background but was clearly created with blogger, much like this blog with little effort to add any bells and whistles. There is an archive and the other normal default blogger options but little else. From what I can tell the whole purpose of this blog is basically to have a place where some dude complains into his computer. The most recent post is an extremely length and uninteresting story about his broken video game hardware. Not surprisingly, there are no ads on this blog although there is space for one (your ad here). The only unique thing about this blog is it tells the unique story of the author. The audience is probably himself or his friends. Aside form that, this blog is pretty unremarkable.

The third blog I found is called the New Gamer. The title is written in a newspaper font but the rest is far from traditional. This blog seems to be targeting the online gamer demographic but also seems to have its own fan base as it tells allot of personal stories involving games about the writers. The main page is a bunch of articles represented by images and short blurbs all in diffenet represenative fonts for whatever teh article i discussing. The articles can be opened by clicking on the images. There are articles concerning the culture of games but also specific games. The tone is conversational but more formal that the other posts. It seems like a good amount of time was taken on this blog. It's visual nature and unique anecdotes make it different than other blogs. There are room for comments and several given, showing the blog's popularity. even the articles are filled with visuals. This blog acts like an online magazine of sorts.