just wanting to say i love the site so far guys.

As the topic says i love the site. Its very aparent you guys have put a lot of effort into it. I love the main home page with the wii like channels. I really hope the site catches on.It would be cool if all the guys who actualy work on the site and came up with the idea would interduse them selves. No need for real names if you feel thats a no no. Just forum names. maybe tell us a little about how you came to creat the site ect. Also i like the idea of a anual mag. Wich leads me to ask, is this a fan made site? by that i mean a small group of guys, or is this a corp owned site like ign or gamespot?

WildCard:
Thank you. Praise and constructive criticism is always appreciated. This is a fan made site. No relation to any corporation. If you have visited the Contact Us Channel you'll see it's a product of me (Streex) and Cheator. It all started when I was watching Attack of the Show one night and they were talking about different website programs and my wheels started to spin. 'That would be awesome if I started a website.' It had always been something I wanted to do, but seemed too difficult and I never had the time. This time however I went to Cheator and told him I'm serious about this and we should get this thing going. So we threw ideas at each other and I started building the site back in September last year. It took a while to get it all put together. I'm glad you like the homepage layout. I was really excited when I came up with the idea of creating a wii channel page as the main layout of the home page. It might not be for everyone, but it works. Finally late in January we were ready to publish and that was when Ninfest was born. Triz was one of the first to add some recommendations and told me to put up some ads and forums, so I got to working on that. Along the way I branched off and put together a shop and we finally got the first podcast up. So far so good. Cheator has a little addiction you might know as World of Warcraft so his contributions have been limited. But we just got together for the podcast!
I live in Cypress and I'm married with a beautiful 2 year old daughter. I've been Nintendo faithful since the beginning. Before that I did have an Atari 7800, but the NES came and it's been nothing but Nintendo consoles since. I guess you could label me a fanboy. I try to keep open minded with the other consoles even though I don't own them, but I unintentionally let a bash slip now and then.
The magazine idea came of late. It wouldn't be anything big. In fact, if it's something we put together, it will probably be only 4 issues a year, the first one being only about 20 pages and be a free publication that I send out to all the registered forum users who put themselves on the mailing list. We don't have high expectations for it but if by chance it turns out to be a bigger success than we could have imagined, sky's the limit.
I'm glad I put this site up. We have a small group right now but in a way it kind of feels like we're a gamer family over here. You all have stirred some great conversation and I love it. I do however look forward to more gamers finding us and joining us in some great discussions. It's actually a lot of fun running this site! But it's because of you guys that I enjoy doing this. Thank you!

Well we all appreciate you making such a great place for gaming enthusiasts to come together at. I have really grown fond of this site and the community that has formed here so far. I don't plan on leaving anytime soon, either, so you'll all have to put up with my sometimes excessively long posts for quite a while longer.

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Well we all appreciate you making such a great place for gaming enthusiasts to come together at. I have really grown fond of this site and the community that has formed here so far. I don't plan on leaving anytime soon, either, so you'll all have to put up with my sometimes excessively long posts for quite a while longer.

Whatever! The longer the post the better! You write very interesting posts and your reviews actually give me a little more insight on some games I hadn't yet read or heard elsewhere. We're glad you're with us.