Spring has sprung and the weather is finally starting to turn warmer. But that doesn’t mean you have to go outside and enjoy the change of season – stay at home and play video games with us!
We’ll start off as we usually do by saying a huge thank you to everyone out there that has ever heard of, looked at or followed out site. We appreciate your support more than you could ever realise: we’ve now managed to hit views from 156 countries across the world and 754 subscribers, and we love every single one of you. Take a look at our dedicated Big-Up page and make sure we’ve mentioned you on there; if we haven’t, let us know so we can put that right straight away.
This month has been a busy but enjoyable one for the 1001-Up.com team. Unfortunately Craig, Ben and Kevin were unable to make this year’s Rezzed expo due to work, parenthood and location commitments – sometimes real life gets in the way of video games! – but Kim and Phil managed to make their way up to Birmingham last weekend. Articles about the event have been have been published over the past week and we’ve still got a few more to come. But we’d like to give a special mention to the guys from SpecialEffect, Flix Interactive and White Paper Games, all of whom made the weekend thoroughly enjoyable.
It was awesome getting the opportunity to meet up Tim and his friends in Birmingham!
Another special mention we’d like to make is to the lovely Tim from GeekOut South-West, who was in Birmingham at the same time for Kitacon. We had the pleasure of meeting him along with Dave, Sarah and Joel from Quotes from the Tabletop for a game of Cards Against Humanity (more about this tomorrow) before heading over to the convention to take a look at the cosplay. If our plans come to fruition we’ll hopefully be attending some events with the guys over the coming year, for which we’ll all be dressing up; check out Tim’s excellent Edward Elric costume if you haven’t seen it already!
This leads us on to our next announcement… drumroll please… we’re extremely honoured to reveal that Tim has agreed to write for 1001-Up.com! Keep an eye out for his upcoming series of articles on game development tools over the coming weeks which will be posted every Wednesday. Our afternoon together in Birmingham and conversations since have proven that we’ve found someone here who’s just as insane as the rest of the team; those who haven’t played Beyond: Two Souls or don’t have as twisted minds as us probably won’t get the joke below, so this one’s especially for Tim…
Jeff strikes again…
Along with Tim’s work, the rest of the team will be beavering away on a series in connection with their favourite boss battles throughout April. If this idea works for us and our readers are enjoying it, each month we’ll pick a new topic and will publish a post on this subject each week. If you have any ideas for topics please leave suggestions for us in the comments below; and come back tomorrow when Ben is first up with his post on Batman’s fight with Mr Freeze in Batman: Arkham City!
Alongside these series, since Ben and Kevin joined the site in February we’ve had a number of ideas for podcasts that we’ve yet to put into practice. But maybe now is the right time so we’re going to start working on a few things over the coming month! Again, if there are any subjects you’d like to see featured in podcasts please do leave us a comment at the end of this update – and if you’d like to be involved yourself, drop us an email because everyone is welcome.
We’d also like to say hello to Sam, who really freaked us out at Kitacon!
2014 is looking like it’s going to be a great year and there is plenty more to look forward to: we’ve been invited to visit SpecialEffect to see the awesome work they do in action, as well as to Flix Interactive’s offices to try out the latest build of Eden Star. Alongside that we have the pleasure of attending the next Eurogamer expo in September and the lovely Kevin will be coming over to the UK from Toronto for a visit. And it’s Kim’s birthday this month… although we dare not reveal how old she’s getting…
Have an amazing Easter and don’t eat too much chocolate – from Craig, Kim, Phil, Ben, Kevin and Tim from 1001-Up.com ☆
