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Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

March 19th, 2006

You Down With GDC?

Yeah you know me!
I’m typing from a rather dingy little hotel room in San Jose, having spent yesterday hauling my pale Canadian butt down from Toronto to the sunny haven of California. I’ll try to keep everyone updated on anything cool and exciting that I may see (like Raph Koster singing karaoke, or Will […]

By Erin -- 2 comments

February 13th, 2006

Home Sweet Home

If you’re a regular visitor here, you might’ve noticed some oddities at Play Girlz the past couple of weeks. These might’ve manifested themselves in several ways: less posts than usual, page not loading, pictures of farm animals in compromising positions, etc. We blame server moves and then server trouble, and then server moves […]

By Ingrid -- 6 comments

January 19th, 2006

Re: Presenting Re: Retro

I’m a little late introducing this blog, since Erin kind of already mentioned it yesterday, but, I really wanted to blog about it for a second, cause I’m really excited.

Re: Retro is the latest addition to the Video Games Channel, and is written by new b5media member Jonic Linely. It is all about the […]

By Ingrid -- 2 comments

January 18th, 2006

Introducing: The Ironic Gamer

Hot on the heels of our recently launched Adventure games blog, The Adventuress comes …

Nathan Smart, he of the glorious satirical site, The Game Rag, joins us here at b5’s Video Game channel in the form of the Ironic Gamer.
Nathan’s new blog is a wry look at games, his experiences as a gamer, […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

January 16th, 2006

Presenting: The Adventuress

A couple of weeks ago we announced the new b5media video games channel, and introduced two new blogs: Sims Gamer and FPS Rantings.
Today it’s my great pleasure to announce the official launch of The Adventuress, a blog all about adventure games, written by the great Amber Loe. Amber’s got a […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

January 3rd, 2006

b5media Video Games Channel

Well, the Video Games Channel (henceforth referred to as the “VGC”) has been in the works for a nice long while, and as evil overlord and mistress Channel Editor I’m rather excited and proud to announce its official launch.
We’re kicking off the launch by moving Play Girlz under the new Video Games category, and […]

By Ingrid -- 9 comments

December 30th, 2005

On Holidays!

I’m currently up North, in the north, doing northern things with my northerners parents. I expect to be back and blogging regularly on January 3rd, 2006, but until then you’ll have to put up with my spotty updates and non-sensical posts.
I hope everyone is well and having a wonderfl end of 2005 in preparation […]

By Erin -- 2 comments

December 30th, 2005

Happy New Year!

Well, here goes my last post of the year. I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year’s celebration. I’ll be living it up with some fine French cuisine (escargots - mmm!), champagne, and hopefully some bad singing, movie-watching, and French-incomprehension.
I hope everyone has a good one.
See you next year! :)

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By Ingrid -- 3 comments

December 15th, 2005

Erin’s Interview

For those of you who don’t stalk the b5media blog, you’re missing out on Erin’s fascinating interview with fellow b5′er and interviewess extraordinaire, Rhys Alexander.
Learn about Erin’s childhood (as a farmer’s daughter in Wisconsin), her dream wedding (to Fabio), how she’s coped with her love of drugs, guns, bodily fluids and fire, and much, much […]

By Ingrid -- 6 comments

December 6th, 2005

Want to Blog About Games?

b5media has given me the green light on starting a video games channel (a.k.a. category) under its banner. And thus, step one toward total gameosphere domination …er, starting it, commences.
I’m looking for all sorts of ideas, and bloggers who want to write about them:

The video games channel is looking for passionate bloggers and gamers with […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments