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E3 preperation

Daniel — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:15:40 +0000

Right now it a very hectic time at work. Next week some of us from work will go to Los Angeles to attend the E3 convention. As it looks now the schedule is starting to become full, but its in a good way. Many good meeting books with really big companies. Hope to have some reports from E3 with photos next week or next weekend.

It is the first time for me at E3! Last year I would have gone, but smaller sisters only graduate once in life so had no choice. So I am really excited to see what its all about what I have only read and heard about. Just so much to prepare for all the meetings and then the travel half around the world that is… not so fun. But I hope it will be a fun and productive business trip.

Hopes for 2010!

Daniel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:27:19 +0000

Now that 2010 have started and I have done a list of what I found was best in 2009, I have a new list of what I look forward to this year. As for movies and music its hard to say. Games on the other hand I have a few favourites that I look forward to play. Here are some of the titles I wait for:

God of War 3
Bioshock 2
Mafia 2
Final Fantasy XIII
The Last Guardian

Also what I really hope for in 2010 even if its only an announcement it would be Warhawk 2.

And this list is only of the titles that I know of.

As for music I don’t know what albums will be coming out this year, I can only wish for new albums and great music from:

Equilibrium
Heaven Shall Burn
Neaera
Anterior
Children of Bodom

Movie is even harder to predict. Don’t know many movies that will come out soon. I would like to see a new Harry Potter movie this year, but don’t think this will happen. One I know I look forward to is Iron Man 2, after viewing the trailer I had to watch the first movie and really liked it. Other than this not many movies I am excited about.

Best of 2009

Daniel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:06:49 +0000

Now 2009 have come to an end. And its been a good year, I thinks so at least. Much have happened, and can’t remember everything. When looking back on it, many memories comes to mind. Travelling, holidays, parties, games, festivals and many more things. As with every year I like to do list of what was the best from the year that was in certain categories. I can’t talk about everything from 2009, here is my favourite Games, Music albums and Movies from 2009:

Games:

Batman Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Assassins Creed 2
Machinarium
Resident Evil 5

Comment: It was a good year regarding games. My only problem was finding time to play them all. Still haven’t finished or started some that I am interested in. Some games lived up to expectations, some didn’t while other just surprised me. After much thought I must say that Batman Arkham Asylum was the best game of 2009 for me, due to the awesome game it was, and that it just came and blew me away!

Music:

Threat Signal – Vigilance
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
Nightrage – Wearing a Martyrs Crown
Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer

Comment: Here I really had to think hard. New music and albums this year was kinda weak and no album that really stood out. Many okey albums. Hope 2010 holds many nice surprises!

Movies:

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
District 9
James Cameron’s Avatar
Zombieland

Comment: As with music I had to think about this one. One movie was already in my mind, Transformers 2 that I really enjoyed and nominated to movie of the year for me. It isn’t the best movie in terms of story or so, but damn entertaining and COOL!

Other than this 2009 was a lot of work, were I really got into everything on GamersGate, and have felt how I have developed. I still have much more to learn (no we can never stop learning). Its been some frustrations, suprises and laughter. As life should be, a roller coaster.

As for the personal stuff, things have been really good, when I have had time for it. Maybe haven’t taken the time for myself or my friends as I would have liked. And definitely to little blogging… really feel that I haven’t had time or energy to work with this blog. Hope that I can find more time and energy next year. But that can be improved in 2010!

Less blogging unfortunatly

Daniel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

The recent month have been very slow on blogging. Mostly cause I’ve been on vacation, and as always its hard for me to find time now a day to sit down and write. Also the subjects doesn’t just come to me the same way.

And now I also have a new interest, the stock and fond trading that have been taking most of my free time lately. Just learning how it works and then getting some practical experience.

Now that I am back at work we have much to do and plan. Later in August we will attend GamesCom in Köln, so we have much to do until then.

Busy… New site + Mac games

Daniel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:26:30 +0000

Now its been a while since I wrote something here, but we have had a really busy time lately. Specially at GamersGate that have been taking most of my time and energy.
Among all the new things we have rolled out is the new design of the site. It feels great and fresh to finally open the new design along with some new features. Check it out!

New GamersGate Design

Also we now offer Mac games for purchase and download. Something that I have been a driving force on the office to implement. I have long felt that we have to cature the Mac market and there are lots of great games for Mac available. We just need to find them and offer them to our customers and new customers.

Besides Mac games we released digital game strategy guides. We still have a lot of guides we need to prepare.

And this weekend we will attend DreamHack to promote our site and company. Hope to show some pictures next week.

2008 in Retrospect

Daniel — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:53:39 +0000

Now that 2008 is at an end, I usually look back at the year that was and what was the best. Both in terms of Music, games and movies. And here is the list over the best albums, games and movies that was released this year. (This list may be updated, as I’m still haven’t played all the games I have from 08).

Music Album:

Equilibrium – The Sagas
Heaven Shall Burn – Iconoclast
Bullet for my Valentine – Scream Aim Fire
In Flames – A Sense of Purpose
Sonic Syndicate -Love and Other Disasters
Cafe del Mar – Vol. 15

Games:

Metal Gear Solid 4
Battlefield – Bad Company
Gears of War 2
Mirrors Edge
Fallout 3

Movies:

Cloverfield
Doomsday
The Air I Breath
Speedracer
Death Race

2008 was quite a good year in many aspects. And I hope that 2009 will be even better. We have many new projects to do at GamersGate, and I hope to get some time and energy to continue bloging as in 2008.

Happy new year to you all!

it been a while…

Daniel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:24:33 +0000

Yes, its been a while since I wrote a post. But my time and thinking mind have been occupied with other thing. Mainly my new job. Its been taking up all of my time, and I havn’t had the energy to blog. I will try to better myself. We have so much new interesting going on at GamersGate, and I miss some of my reflexing and thinking outside work.

Last week at Kelkoo

Daniel — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:13:42 +0000

I’m now into my last week at Kelkoo. Most of the time I will spend to end and hand over all my work tasks to my replacement. I will miss my workmates, but its allways exciting with changes. Looking forward to start working at the new place.

New Job: Product Manager at Gamersgate

Daniel — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:08:21 +0000

This week I have been offered and accepted a new job. The role as Product Manager at Gamersgate.com. I will start the 29 of September, and I’m really looking forward to this.

My work task will inlude

Driving new web traffic and visitors to the site
Follow up the statistic
Contact with partners to get new and old titles
Make sure the games are online and working
Update and maintain the site.

I think this will be great!

Blog updates

Daniel — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:49:17 +0000

Over the last couple of days I’ve searched and experimented with different Wordpress plugins to improve the blog. Its not really so much improvement to talk about, more fun experiments from my view on how to work with different new features. Almost all the changes/add-ons have happened in the sidebar widgets.

The size on the text and menus on sidebar to the right have been decreased.
RSS feed from my Facebook account have been added with automatically retrieve my latest Status change and displays it. (I’ve also connected my blog to Facebook, so every blog post published is noted and displayed on my Facebook profile page)
I found a plugin that create a fairly good looking link to my LinkedIn account for people to go and view my profile there. (Now I just have to update and really look after my account which I’ve been lazy about til now…)
I have wanted to find a good way to show books I recommend for a long time. An Amazon/Wordpress plugin have come to my aid. By simply enter the ASIN/ISBN number for a book, the widget retrieve the cover, title and author from Amazon.com and displays them.
And finally… Ads! Yes, I’m not famous for believing in ads, but this I just wanted to try out to learn more about. By signing up on Google Adsense and creating and automatic Ad and inserting it on my blog, I can explore and gain more knowledge. I already work with Adwords, and here theres the option of allowing your ads to be showned on the Content Network, which basically means Adsense. This i more of a experiment than some new features or improvment.

So far I’m really happy with the improvments. Its always fun with some changes and something to spice up the site.