Schedule & Updates

January 2025

The place to read up on all the stuff I plan on writing this month and what I´m cooking up for the near future in general. As always, the schedule I talk about here is subject to change. Stuff might take longer or things may happen in the gaming space that might take priority. 

The place to read up on all the stuff I plan on writing this month and what I´m cooking up for the near future in general. As always, the schedule I talk about here is subject to change. Stuff might take longer or things may happen in the gaming space that might take priority. 

After nearly 5 years, Google has accepted my blog in their ads program. I tested it out for about a week, after which I decided to turn it back off. The small pennies it nabbed me everyday did not weigh up against the discomfort I felt about having them on. Maybe later down the road, if my numbers ever increase enough, I´ll turn it back on. 

Not that the current numbers are anything to scoff at. Well, at least they are for me. I broke my record again in December. Only by a couple of views really but it still counts and that makes me happy. Wayback when I started writing in 2020, I had one goal in mind to work to. Have at least 10000 reads a month. The last four months I´ve been floating around that number. One month is just above the line, the other is just below. 

That 10000 number has always been my goal but now that it is so close in reach, I´m crossing my fingers that 2025 will be the year in which I´ll at long last, consistently, hit that number. 

That was the monthly look back, now it´s time for the yearly one. Because of the slow summer months, overall readership is slightly down in 2024 compared to 2023 but not my as much I expected. The average readers per months is higher and that the difference is only about 1000 readers is all due to these great last 4 months. 

Looking at the top-performing posts things were more fluid in the back half of the year too compared to the first half and even 2023. Back then, it was "Ranking all 9 Pokémon Generations - My Pokémon Journey", "The rise & fall of Yo-Kai Watch" and "Xenoblade Chronicles: Future Connected – Review" that brought people in. 

Nothing against those posts but after they read them, they didn't stick around. I had posts that took days to even get one read. Like me continuing to write didn't matter. That's thankfully no longer the case. I still have some usual suspects in that top 5 lists but even those tend to jump around dipping in and out. There are even a couple of posts that managed to make it into the Top 5 in their launch week. 

In short: people are a coming in and staying for a lot more of my work, from old to new. A more organic readership and that feels good. 

You know what I also can't help but notice? That those strong last few months came around the same time I dropped my output down to a biweekly model. I don't think that is the reason readership went up but it did make me feel less bad about it. This new schedule is, now that my life is so much busier, easier to maintain and that it had no negative consequences means I will keep that cadence up. 

But, don't think I won't sneak in an extra post once in a while. "Horizon Zero Dawn: Remastered - Review" was a 'bonus' post in November and I got the impression you all liked it. So, if the opportunity arises for another such bonus, I'll be sure to do so. Just know that it won't be a 'three-in-a-row' type of deal. It would be a two back-to-back situation and then you'd have that week off. Less pressure for me. 

I also want to do more non video game stuff. Well, less actually about the video games themselves at least. More reviews like "Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft – Review". In other words, stuff about other game related media. Netflix has that Devil May Cry anime coming, a series I never tried by am curious about, and plenty more original and acquired gaming related shows and movies. 

With how video games movies and especially TV shows have risen in quality and performance in the last few years, well, it doesn't seem like a bad moment to dive a bit deeper into them. Perhaps I could build that out into just general TV and show reviews? Forget I said that last sentence. That's just getting way ahead of myself with very wishful thinking. 

Not much more to say. My top 5 Games in 2024 is hitting on the 4th, and I'm halfway through my review of Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver so those will be my January posts. I'm also going to redo the "The Game Wall - Games of the Year". Nothing major, just redoing the order to put it chronologically so that when people click the page its easier to navigate and they see the new stuff immediately. 

Oh, and of course, thank you all for your continued support. All the stuff I talked about here, my pride for the good readership and wanting to do more gaming related media content wouldn' be possible without you. Form the bottom of my heart. 

Thank you all for reading! 

Your Writer,

F.T. Wolf