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How To Make Money From What You Know About PC Gaming

February 26th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games
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You might not realise it but there are people out there who are willing to pay good money for your gaming knowledge. And in fact those who have dedicated hours and hours to learning all they can about PC gaming should really be getting compensated in some way. There are many gamers out there who are already making a tidy sum of money from just sharing what they know about PC gaming with others. Here are a few ways that you can make money by sharing your PC gaming knowledge.

 

- Start up a blog that provides reviews and insights into the PC games you have mastered. Doing this does not require you to have any qualifications. So long as you have mastered the game that is all you need; of course if you have the ability to write coherently about your experience then this will be a great help. The way to monetise a blog is to place advertisements on it which you will be paid for or by selling directly to your readers.

 

- Write eBooks with gaming tips in general or advice on particular games. EBooks have become really popular lately so all you need to do is to write a book that everyone is going to read and then you could soon see the money rolling in. All the information and resources you need for producing an eBook are available for free online.

 

- If you establish yourself as someone with plenty of knowledge, then you will be able to charge for guest posts on other blogs. The better reputation you have, the more you are likely to be paid for doing this.

 

- Write paid reviews for different gaming products. You really couldn’t find an easier job than writing nice things about a certain product could you?

 

R4 and gaming cards are very important to game enthusiasts pretty much everywhere, which means that being ready for just about all eventualities is definitely the way to go. Some other stuff that gamers may very well be serious about are R4I SDHC Card 1.41 and Wii Accessori.

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Is the Xbox the Game Winner?

February 8th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games

The Xbox 360 is getting old. That is to say, in the rapidly advancing field of home video gaming it’s pretty much become the senior member. Released back in 2005, Microsoft’s follow up to its overwhelmingly successful original Xbox is now the oldest game console of what can be considered the current generation. The other two big players, Sony and Nintendo, both released their competing consoles at least a year after Microsoft. But is it still the best choice in gaming systems? Many would say it is.

The Xbox 360 came to the arena prepared to leave a lasting mark and to make sure the world knew that the second Xbox was going to hold its own against any and all competition. Sony already had the Playstation 1 and the Playstation 2 on the market, with development for Playstation 3 underway. Unfortunately for Sony, Microsoft beat them to the release date and contained fewer bugs.

The Wii is a unique gaming experience, that’s for sure. No one can argue that it offers something cool and allows you to play games in a way you’ve never done before. Okay, some people will argue against that and many will tell you the whole Wii controller is just ridiculous, but let’s leave these varying opinions to the wayside for now.

There are games on all three of the main consoles that compete directly with one another. Whatever Microsoft and Sony want to claim, if someone owns all three consoles but chooses to buy a certain game on Wii instead of the others, then it’s competition no matter how you draw it.

The games that are available to the Xbox 360 are far more advanced from a graphic point of view than those available for the Wii. They can also be designed to be more in depth and faster moving because the Xbox platform is just so powerful. In fact, many third party game designers can’t or simply don’t bother trying to put certain games on the Wii because it just won’t do what they want.

Whether it was the fault of the Wii or the fact that people just didn’t want it, the PS 3 didn’t sell well. This means less people are using it which means a lot of the gaming experience that the Xbox 360 and PS 3 are built around are simply better with the former. With the online gaming world, for instance, would you rather play the games amongst a fan base of 30 million people with the Xbox, or less than 15 million with the PS 3?

Tennis shoes, cars, computers and even soft drinks are all about marketing. There has to be something that sets it apart from the competitors. Microsoft took the game to a new playing field and charged up the competition. There will be other consoles in the future but until that time, in my opinion, the Xbox 360 is the way to go.

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Power Players Adapt to the Xbox 360

November 30th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games

Though all videogame consoles would like to be the entertainment focus of your home, Nintendo’s Wii is marketed towards a more general audience (with which it has been wildly successful) while the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and Sony’s Playstation 3 chase the hard-core action-gaming crowd dominated by male teens and tweens, as reflected by Xbox 360 Accessories like an Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter.  When it comes to hardware, the Wii is outclassed by both the Xbox and the PS3, but it’s really the software that makes a game console. Thus do Microsoft and Sony’s catalogs appear rather similar, as both are gunning after the same market with a similar number of titles with a similar range of genres and gameplay.

But big numbers buy bragging rights in action-gaming, and it must also be remembered that, in the final analysis, it’s the hardware that drives the software.  (Though no one boasts of their Xbox 360 Power Supply.)  And thus it is that many may find the Xbox 360 and PS3 to be pretty similar under the hood, no matter Sony’s much-hyped “emotion engine” said to render facial expressions so realistically as to provide a more engrossing gaming experience. Nonetheless, each console does have its following of die-hard devotees who insist that major differences abound between the two. Yet it’s a safe bet that few, if any, would turn down a rival console were it given for a gift!

The real differences, in fact, involve those truly special features offered by each platform, as well as the online experiences each provides. With Microsoft there is a noticeably richer online experience than that of Sony, whose online service is not bad at all. But the Xbox 360 provides a more extensive experience in that department, though the PS3 does try very hard to make up for it with a built-in Blu-ray DVD player, WiFi web surfing, and support for Bluetooth wireless devices. To which it must be added that NetFlix on-demand is available through the Xbox 360, likely neutralizing the PS3’s multimedia advantages. But the PS3 is extensively moddable by users with the technical interest, while Microsoft rather discourages such hobbyist tinkering under the hood.

Then there’s the matter of prices, with the PS3 selling more going for than the Xbox 360 on account of its slightly longer list of features. Naturally, if you’re a hard-core gamer, prices are probably not going to be all that big a consideration, because purchasing decisions will often be made based on titles exclusive to each platform. Of course, the truly hard-core don’t care about prices at all and would simply buy each of them!

 

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