And here's the gaming menu for 2009 -

http://games.kikizo.com/features/50-hottest-things-in-2009-gaming-p1.asp

Pretty much sums up everything I'm anticipating in 2009. 

Duke Nukem Forever :)

You forgot StarCraft 2!!  Although it may not be released this year.  

No love for Huxley?

To be honest, it could have been a top 100 :p

The Agency, Huxley, Dawn of War 2 and Starcraft 2 are also well worth watching out for. Not that you need telling.

Nobody is looking forward to The Agency. Seriously.

Oh yes they are.

I would have to say no, they aren't.

This is the first time I've heard about the game.

Ive only heard about it on the waste of space(and money) that is PSN's Qore. I have yet to see anyone excited about it. Maybe 2Pac can make it his new obsession.

/shakes head tolerantly

Edwin


/shakes head tolerantly

We're no playing an MMO, we're not role-playing in a chat room like virgi... I mean WoW players. Seriously, no need for the "/insert action" here. God, you guys are so lucky I dont use my close ties to Adam to layeth down the banhammer.

/sarcasm

Ok here's a new list:

Huxley
SC2
Fight Night Round 4
Killzone 2
SF 4
Aliens: Colonial Marines
GT 5
COD 6
Dragon Age
GTA 4 DLC
Afro Samurai

Fine, since we're posting lists and all.

No particular order:
Halo Wars
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams
Halo 3: ODST
Batman: Arkham Asylum
CoD: Modern Warfare 2- I swear to Allah if this isnt out in 09....
Killzone 2
Mass Effect 2
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Rage
Half-Life 2: Episode 3
God of War 3

I am obsession free til march when peter molynuex announces his next game ..

immortaldanmx

Edwin


/shakes head tolerantly

We're no playing an MMO, we're not role-playing in a chat room like virgi... I mean WoW players. Seriously, no need for the "/insert action" here. God, you guys are so lucky I dont use my close ties to Adam to layeth down the banhammer.

/sarcasm

Fool! Adam is but a puppet - the banhammer is MINE.

/flexes

We're actually looking at doing another 2009 preview based on feedback to the original. So if you have any other recommendations, now's the time to air 'em...

Edwin


We're actually looking at doing another 2009 preview based on feedback to the original. So if you have any other recommendations, now's the time to air 'em...

That's right... pad it out...

What Kikizo needs is to get up to speed with it's video content... and area which is severely lacking in comparison to most other sites. You can't expect to compete with IGN, Gamespot, 1up, Eurogamer and other sites with tons of funding when all you have to offer are interviews and the odd review. You guys don't even produce your own screenshots. There's almost zero reason to visit the main site.

I also still can't post from my iPhone. My daily postcount has dropped seriously-motherfuckingly-dramatically since i stopped using my Blackberry (and since the forum upgrade went through). If i can't post from my phone i will barely be posting at all... simple.

If that was a veiled jab at our "padding out" content, I suggest you look at Games Radar and Eurogamer's winter/spring output. They don't go easy on the listing.

We compete with IGN, Gamespot, 1UP et al simply by obtaining article content they don't - exclusive interviews such as the recent Guerrilla, Final Fantasy XIII and Tekken 6 pieces - and by delivering very timely if not exclusive reviews and previews. Yes, I'm aware that these don't exactly crop up on a daily basis, but they do get us sufficient traffic. I can't really comment on the question of custom media like video reviews, exclusive screenshots, etc as that's Adam's call, so I'll just reiterate that you aren't telling us anything we don't already know ;)

I'll give the boss a call about your iPhone troubles.

Uh huh...

Now how did I know you were going to post something like that, you cheeky sod :)

The difference between us and IGN, Gamespot, etc is that they have scores of full-time staff and humongous outlays. We don't, and consequently we don't need to pull in the same volumes of traffic. Nobody's denying that we're a way from the top of the pile, but it's quite possible to make a living without going neck-to-neck with the big boys. Also - Kikizo Ltd covers more than just Kikizo.com.

If anything, trying to muster the resources to take on IGN and co simply worsens the consequences of failure without guaranteeing success. I used to write for a site that tried to do just that - we had video reviews (voiced by yours truly), thousands of daily downloads including demos, trailers, mods, etc, 3-4 1000-2000 word articles a day plus twenty-odd news items - the works. Suffice to say they're not around anymore.

If you want to talk this through in proper detail I'd suggest contacting Adam - I'm just the writing bloke, not the corporate director.

Edwin


Also - Kikizo Ltd covers more than just Kikizo.com.

And even including AOL Games traffic (content provided by Kikizo) along with the Kikizo.com traffic... you'd still be far and away from maximizing your full potential.

When i first started posting here in 2005 i thought Kikizo was kickass, but at that point HD video streaming was barely being used anywhere so video wasn't an area which i found to be lacking. The downloadable video files that were available here were far superior to most others elsewhere in terms of framerate and bitrate etc... but whereas major sites and other smaller more independant or niche sites have moved with the times to provide streaming video previews/reviews/interviews, podcasts, exclusive screenshots etc... Kikizo has done nothing more than have a minor facelift.

If there isn't enough revenue to justify the cost of major additions like the production and delivery of HD video reviews... then do what you can. All of the bigger sites secure exclusive interviews too, and the biggest ones do them with video... so there's nothing special about the kind of content Kikizo is providing. There are no mods and the site has no real personality. We don't know who the staffers are or what they look like (aside from Doree and yourself ofcourse) and so we can't really relate in the same way we can with the goons from 1up, Gamespot and IGN. Y'know, the guys that run Gamerysde have no major financial backing, and they have real-world... non-gaming related jobs... and yet their content is far more appealing than anything posted here. For me, Kikizo is nothing more than a slow moving forum populated by a few... but kickass posters.