GamePro was a great team! It's a shame it wasn't considered one of the "top tier" sites for news and reviews. Too little, too late, I guess. Traffic was on the up prior to its closure, and I hope you don't think me egotistical to say that my contributions played an important role in that.

I know what you mean about Vox Games. I'd like to think it'll be a big rethink and a shakeup — it certainly has the potential to be. But on the other hand, it'd be very easy for it to become Joytaku, Kotstiq or whatever groteque portmanteau moniker you want to provide it with.

There's a lot of discussion surrounding reviews at the moment, particularly after a number of controversies in the mainstream press in the last year. It's going to take a lot more than talk to get people rethinking how we write about this medium, however. Hopefully Vox Games will be a step in the right direction — and in the meantime, it's up to smaller and independent outfits (like yourself!) to try other things.

Haven't done anything more with the story, no. Have tweaked the novel I have on the go in Google Docs a bit, though I haven't worked on it anywhere near as much as I intended to. Good intentions and all that.

As exciting as Vox Games sounds, I'll hold my unbridled joy when I see the end product. I really hope that they do shake things up, rethink the way internet "journalism" operates and makes something that's as deep and interesting as they're capable of.