Wow, what a difference a week in LA can make. I still get so giddy flying from sea to shining sea. Why isn't that our awesome Go USA song? Too commie, I guess...

Anyway, a lot has been up with GF! mostly and with some other things, too. I can't really talk too much about those things yet, but I'll drop links where there are links to link. As always. Mostly I've been trying to fill up (e:paul)'s schedule with more programming. haha!

Dig our moblog from E3 if you haven't already (http://moblog.gamesfirst.com). We stood in line for Star Wars a bit (http://moblog.gamesfirst.com/index.php?page=11). That was cool. I met Max Payne, or at least the guy who posed as him in the first game. He looked a lot less constipated. Other than that, there wasn't much in the way of celeb spottings. Well, I saw Ty from Extreme Home Makeover, but he was nowhere near me...

So after going to LA and spending how much ??? money on the trip for the umpteenth time (since 1999 we've been doing this), and making new deals to (hopefully) expand GF! in cool new ways, and meeting a whole new group of awesome writers who are some of the greatest folks around, I get this:

Dear Webmaster
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> I am interested in buying your domain gamesfirst.com for $400. I'm only interested in the domain not in your content, so you can sell your domain and move your content to another domain. If you are interested please respond to this e-mail.
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> Regards,
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> Bettina Jensen
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So I sent this back to her:


Bettina,

GamesFirst.com is an established brand with a 10 year web legacy as
one of the foremost independent online gaming magazines. I'm afraid
your offer is not only misguided but completely insulting. Please
remove us from your spam list.

Shawn Rider,
Editor in Chief

The nerve! Geez, who do these people think they are. I now own GamesFirst.net and GamesFirst.org, so take that Bettina!

Adieu mes amis!

We're heading to LA for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (http://www.e3insider.com) We'll be moblogging our journey with some images here and as always you can check out GamesFirst! for much more stuff, if you're into the videogames and whatnot. It should be an exciitng year -- three new hardware platforms makes for some fierce display of corporate excess! haha

I'll try to post using the swanky WAP interface at least to say hello.

the new wap estrip is way cool. now i just need a qwerty phone. ttfn

Scud -- whoa there, cowboy. You're gonna make a mess on that fancy new Xbox 360.. Here's a link to my impressions from last night. I'll also be moblogging from E3 all next week, so you might keep up with that. I'll make a post here on (e:strip) before I head out with some links, or just head to GF! (http://www.gamesfirst.com) and get the latest. Support your local gaming site, too. haha

And while talking about support, support (e:strip). I dig it. It's fun. I pitched in a little bit. A little bit from everyone goes a real long way. If everyone here pitched in like $10 it would be a big deal, right (e:paul)?

Also, I think classifieds would be a good thing for (e:strip). Set up a special classifieds section, make classifieds show up inthe sidebar, and charge like $5 for a month run of 60 words. I think people wanting to sell/trade/whatever could more easily get attention from the general population, and that way it wouldn't be like we were having cruddy corporate ads on our individual journals...

This is what GF! looks like on PSP. I dig it. I really love twoplayer on PSP because the color and resolution looks so good. I think we should make a PSP page for twoplayer because that could be really popular -- PSP is awesome for digital comics viewing.



Unfortunately, the old (e:strip) doesn't do so well on the PSP. Here's a shot of my computer showing eStrip and my PSP showing the same section of the page. The background doesn't come in, none of the stylesheet stuff works (which isn't eStrip's fault), and of course the layout is too big. But I'm sure the WAP version looks a lot better, and, as (e:paul) points out, one could either use the booky interface (customized for low-res screens) or simply email in posts.



And here is what it looks like as it tries to load another time for me. It never finished any images on this one except the divider. How weird is that? Anyway, it's more of a close-up.