Windows Gamer is a gaming site for gamers and by gamers. We play games and we are tired of the generic, bloated, junky nature of video game media, especially online. Game ratings are a complete joke, game news is a joke, and anymore we’ve been tricked into buying the latest iteration of whatever megafranchise the game companies sling at us and we’re sick of it. That’s why we created Windows Gamer. We are a different kind of game site.

We don’t care what the game companies think of us. We don’t regurgitate press releases. We aren’t going to post screenshots just to help them hype their latest game. We refuse to do so. Instead, we’re going to tell you what we think even if they don’t like it.

Our process is simple. We pick games that we want to play and we write about them. They won’t always be the newest or the most interesting games, but they will be games that we have spent time playing. When we write about games we aren’t going to just spend 5 minutes glossing through the game and then compare it to the ten other games in the genre we’ve played this year. In fact, we aren’t doing this as a job. We do this for fun mostly…mostly.

Oh, and we are obviously going to be writing about Windows games because it seems that for whatever reason people don’t play so many Windows games anymore. Xbox 360, Wii, and Playstation 3 are the cool kids on the block now, so where the gaming media has failed we shall triumph! I still play PC games, mostly on Windows. On occasion I’ll play games on my Mac or in Linux, but mostly it’s Windows, so that’s what we write about most of the time. If we do talk about a console game, don’t worry we aren’t abandoning our love of PC games, it’s okay, calm down, and put down the hate mail you wanted to write. Seriously, it will be okay.

One last thing, if you are expecting us to be just another gaming blog like Joystiq or Kotaku, then you’re not at the right site. Or, if you think that this site is going to become a community site like 1up, IGN, Gamespot, or Gamespy, we aren’t going that route. Also, don’t expect us to dig you up a bunch of codes and faqs because gamefaqs.com does that better than we do. In short, just because those sites are successful doesn’t mean that we want to follow them. We do our own thing and if you don’t like it, go away and stop bothering us. If you dig what we do, that’s cool too.

Welcome to our site and we hope you enjoy your time here. If you don’t, please keep that to yourself, our egos are small and fragile. If you crush them with your negativity we may never recover…