What About The Rest Of The Year?

Blogging? Am I still doing that? By missing E3 this year, I shot my blogging-self in the foot. Last year and the year before, E3 was a prime time to chime in on the world of gaming. Starting right now, there are only 4 games that I'm really looking forward to for the remainder of 2013. They are, in order of suspected release:

6/25/2013 - Deadpool
9/3/2013 - Diablo III (Console)
9/17/2013 - Grand Theft Auto V
Q4 2013 - South Park: The Stick of Truth

I'll definitely be talking about the Deadpool game, because it looks awesome and hilarious.

The other two games, Diablo and GTA, look to be early fall releases but I'm not really sure about South Park. Who knows? Anybody. I can wait for that one, because I want the South Park game to be done right or not done at all.

Good news though, I'll have plenty of time to play Deadpool before I get bogged down with the other new games. Deadpool is my favorite Marvel Comics character and I've been anticipating this game since I first heard about it. And it's about damn time that it was released. I'll try and get a huge chunk of it played shortly after release so that I can post my thoughts on the game.

There were some tempting pre-order bonuses, but nothing too blingy. So I put my pre-order in at GameStop and got two more challenge maps, two extra costumes, and a wallpaper. Let me see if I can dig that sucker up.

Blogging: How To Proceed

There's plenty of new shit to do now that 2013 is here and kicking. The first on my list is evaluating Google and its blogger service. I'm going to do some experiments here and the first has to do with images.

It seems that the images in each of my posts are actually getting hits and not the post itself. For a while, I was perfectly fine with this: the images get uploaded to a Picasa web folder and linked in the blog. This maintains the image name and that's what gets the hit in Google's image search. Crazy pictures seem like a cool way to attract readers to my blog.

But.

I don't think anything is actually getting read. So I'm uploading images to my imgur (account, gallery, thing) and linking to them in each blog post. This way, the images themselves will not pull hits to the blog; the images will pull hits to imgur. This will show if I'm getting hits based only on the post content and keywords or labels.

The Google AdSense service has denied my request for an account twice now. A sneaking suspicion tells me that I did something wrong when I tried to create my account. It's Google numbers all over again. Another likely explanation is that most of the images that I've used (up to this point) have been blatant copy-right violations. I own very few of the images found in my blog.

My crazy chronicle seems like the perfect spot to place some gaming-related ads. Maybe I'm just wrong about that.

October, November, and December of 2012 and January of 2013 have all drawn over 150 hits per month. By Internet standards, that's not that good. But by my standards, it'll do just fine. I'm curious to see how the hits dip.