VGB’s 20th Anniversary! – Video Games Blogger

VGB TURNS 20 YEARS OLD TODAY! WOW! As Albert Einstein mentioned in one among 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 return! 😀

It actually was a lifetime in the past after I began engaged on VGB again in October of 2005 with the aim of serving to players get pleasure from 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 era of online game consoles, this Summer time of 2025 we acquired Nintendo’s Swap 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’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 very best world group there’s. As all the time, I really feel that’s as a result of all of us have a shared reminiscences of our favourite video video games that makes us acknowledge how comparable we’re regardless of our variations.

Particular due to my people, my lovely household and constant pals for all the time supporting me. What began as a dream to weblog about video video games as a passion become a full-on profession, due to 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 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). Because of Josh, Laura, Toni et al for protecting 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 all the time respect the time we spent collectively. Players rule the world! 🙂

GAME ON! 😀

PS: From one among my High 10 favourite video games, right here is Tremendous Mario 64’s epic credit tune.