A Bumpy Ride...

Well, a couple of weekends ago now, I said BXB had started a series of upgrades to the website. Last weekend, nothing was done due to other things derailing our plans. The planned upgrade for last weekend was the Gamespaces but Ash decided to focus on the Features Archive as we have great hands on previews of Dead Rising and Lost Planet on BXB at the moment that we wanted to make sure were given plenty of air time.

This weekend the planned feature was once again the Features Archive and once again this plan has changed and Ash has spent the weekend working on the new navigation bar we'll be launching very shortly.

In turn, this will gives BXB more chance of getting our new advertising features up and running in time to catch the rush of hits we'll be getting as people keep up with E3's announcements in May.

Changing priorities and balancing our real life jobs with BXB mean that more often than not we have to adapt and change our plans which always gives me the feeling that things aren't going smoothly enough. Never the less, we soldier on and keep working hard towards our goals.

And while I mention E3, I'm gutted because I can't afford to go this year. I was rather reckless with the credit card over Christmas and ended up getting into a little debt. My saving were dipped into to pay those off and the money I have got now will go towards spending a week in Lanzarote with my girlfriend.

A little disappointed that I won't be able to experience yet another E3 but it's very difficult for a site our size to effectively report on E3 as there's so much to cover. I felt our E3 Video Diaries were a great way of giving our community a look at E3 from a point of view that would have been very similar to theirs.

And finally, speaking of community events, I'm currently running a poll in our LAN events forum to see which community day idea BXB users prefer.

And I've realised if I'm not careful, I'm going to start linking every other word I post on this blog to something relevant.