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Poor Photoshop work, terrible photography, in-advised ideas, welcome to Game Engine

So, you make game engines huh?

A common mistake, but incorrect I’m afraid, you budding Unreal Engine modder, we’re in-fact called Game Engine because we spent too much time browsing godaddy and clicking random. We started as a blogging community site, based on this whole ‘WordPress‘ platform, made a bigger site, then got caught in the wash and shrunk back down to a random little blog that hides under the media table, occasionally making cheeky remarks, but we get away with it, cause we’re oh so cute.

You’re as pretentious as that?

Leave my establishment. Go on. Get the hell out. Actually, it’s a just a show we put on for the web robots, we’re OK guys, really, with different interests, (read on to find out more), ideas, tones and poor jokes we can pull out at a moments notice.

“Interests”…This is legal isn’t it?

Yeah, no sweat, we keep that stuff encypted. The stuff you’ll see is everything from relatively serious posts about what we think about the big news in the worlds of Gaming, Entertainment and Technology, to a post so filled with internet memes, you’ll think you’ve stumbled onto an image board. Our aims with our content is simple, inform, entertain…and to some degree provoke, our audience.

My brain is bored, give me content

As three dudes, living relatively separate, busy lives, we do this as a rather obsessive hobby. Having said that, so long as the zombie/robot/cyborg/zombie-cyborg apocalypse hasn’t rolled into our neighbourhood, we put up content nearly every day of the working week, and our Ignition Podcast, a dangerous mix of teenage humour, energy drinks and dark undertones, is put out nearly every weekend. We also from time to time, do mad, often dangerous, challenges and videos based on new games we’ve been playing and much much more!

Cool, can I get involved at all?

Woah, serious question. Whilst experiments with having other bloggers wasn’t quite as cool as we’d hoped, the best way get involved is commenting! Creating debate! Sounding enthusiastic! Or simply by sharing any post you like on the site to one of the many services we have links to!

How do you run this place?

If this is an advert focused question, let me explain where we sit on that fence. We’re most certainly Non-Commerical, we back ourselves from our own pocket because we enjoy what we do. We ain’t too keen on the way adverts work on the web. They are either intrusive or invasive, or simply look out of place on a page where a designer has put in a lot of work. We’ve never ran ads on any of our pages and we will only ever run them when these three conditions are met:

We know that the advertisements will actually contribute towards the running of the site in a considerable way
We like the products and services that they are offering and think our user base would appreciate them
Design wise, they do not clutter and give a cohesive, rather than tacked on approach.

We always feel that if we like a site, we’ll disable ad-block for it, so that’s what we put first with everything we do here.

Excuse me, My StumbleUpon just took me here. Help.

Well, we now know the sharing stuff works…..

Probably the best way for us to show you what we do, is by browsing our video sections Here’s a taster

Now, PAH PAH PAH PAAHHHH, Meet the team!

Doing what he does best

Josh Dean

Josh came to Game-Engine after running several other “web destinations” into the ground with constant re-designs and feature sets. After founding a website based about games, which again, suffered the fate of a perfectionist, yet poor, designer, Game Engine was created as a way to channel those energies in the direction of a poor, vunerable website. Afer co-founding Game Engine on a historic moment in intergalatic history, Josh turned his attention to web development yet again, muddled through it, and then started to “write” about what is probably his most normal interest, video games. Now Josh has expanded into poorly recorded screen captures and talking into cameras with painstaking conviction, as well as keeping up playing a lot of video games, then claiming that they are either ‘awesome’ or ‘rubbish’.

He means business in a suit. Honest

Matt Brading

Matt joined forces with Josh in a mission to make a half decent website after his own personal blog failed to get any readers… at all. He is one of the most innovative and creative members of the team, unfortunately most of his ideas exceed even the budgets of Hollywood blockbusters and so rarely come to fruition. Matt’s job on the blog is supposedly the producer of our media content, in reality what he does is complain about the equipment and mutter about sound quality. He is also the regular host of the world renowned Ignition Podcast, despite the fact his experience of games is mostly running over prostitutes in GTA 4, which is why he is better suited to discussing movies and technology. Some of the projects Matt is working on for the future of the site include: a video podcast; a dedicated video channel; a live action stunt spectacle; a 4hr 3D feature film based on ‘Herdy Gerdy’; and finally edible games reviews.

Something's just occured to me...

Stevie Holdway

You know that annoying guy who you meet, have a good five minutes with and then stays with you the rest of your life? Well, that’s kinda how Stevie got involved with Game-Engine. With little knowledge of video games or any normal social skills, Stevie bumbles along writing about what he feels like (technology, free software and philosophy – mainly) and is a regular on the Ignition Podcast, contributing what can only be described as party games of the highest calibre. Stevie is the guy you need to talk to if, well, he’s desperate enough to talk about anything. But if you talk to him about Game-Engine there is a good chance he can make something happen. Also, if you have an idea about life, the universe and everything in-between you want to ask the world he will be more than happy to ponder on the blogosphere for you. A dedicated GNU/Linux user, Stevie is a fan of irony, show-tunes and awkward situations. And yes, that is a bit of flesh showing on his picture… …ladies…

Engie (Otherwise Known as Oscar)

The most famous dog in all of Game Engine, appearing in many videos, and finding it very easy to be simply awesome.

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