And adore you too! Scared? Snap out of it!. Now that I have started off gushing, let me go all the way and state in a civil and courteous way (only temporarily, I assure you), that we thank you for your kind support right from the second the ANGRY pixel went online with the blog. Thanks for what, you ask? Read on:

Because of your co-operation and the efforts of our awesome and (handsome, eligible bachelor) Lead Content Editor, Krishnan Rajagopal, our website is now listed as the ‘Cool Site of the Day’. Check out http://www.coolsitetoday.com/ and you will know what I mean.

But that’s scratching the surface. Or an itch. Whatever. Our site was featured today in Mumbai Mirror (a leading newspaper for young Bombayites, published along with the Goliath called the Times of India ) in the ‘Website Watch’ section of the publication. Talk about a double whammy, eh?

Now we’re about as vain as anybody else (which is, to say, a lot) so we’ll take risk of sounding a bit too immodest, and say that we are proud of our efforts and proud of the guts of our community that has followed us out of our old home on the internet intoto this new pad - where we can stay together until time itself ticks out. That, or Reggie and Kris stop paying the bills. But since that is not going to happen any time soon, relax, we are here to stay.

I expect a lot more hits on the blog and the forum from now because, I know what the ‘Website Watch’ section means to most of the key demographic. Forgive me for being so excited about this, but a full record of TAP’s formation and achievements is in order at this point. But that is a story for another time and will be probably told better by the people who worked much harder than yours truly in the formation of the website.

On a parting note, another round of applause and bouquets goes out to the staff and our dear community members. And also, a hearty and warm welcome to the new people who visit us because of all the articles and the newspaper mention. See, we could have called you n00bs, but we did not! If that does not speak volumes about our character, then what does? We’re very generous that way.

OK. For those of you who have seen this on the GameTrailers website, good for you. You know what you want now.

For those of you who haven’t, GameTrailers have compiled THEIR list of the best trailers showcased at the gaming event we all want to be part of, oh so bad!

‘Tis true - the COD 4 trailer looks sweet and we’ve been giving you all the latest news about the game as soon as we get to know. So considering how excited all of us here are about COD4: Modern Warfare, its just fitting that this trailer tops their list as well.

The Angrypixel.com is now 1 month old!!

YAY!. This has been one crazy month for all of us. We’ve seen a lot of really interesting, quirky, unexpected, but extremely encouraging things happen over this last month. First off - we’ve got a lot of our good contributors back with us. So expect to see more posts from the regulars at the blog. On the forum, we’re getting new users almost everyday and our very own Bobby a.k.a Durk has created a SEXY design template for the forum as well as a new logo. We had a lot of trouble zeroing in on the logo, but we’ve finally got it. So expect to see some downloadable wallpapers from this site soon.
But the best part - the BLOG! The blog has been by far THE MOST successful part of the website. With some excellent and quality news being posted by the heroes here, we’ve managed to score almost 24,000 hits - in ONE MONTH!!! At one point, the blog had so much traffic, that it kept crashing for almost 2 days. From frantic phone calls to each other across the country, to international calls, to praying real hard - we did it all. The response we’ve received so far has been very encouraging and will only confirm 1 thing - the ANGRYPIXEL is here to stay!

Wow, looks like we managed to get the blog, the forum and the site up and running. Sure, we’re running into a bit of a problem with the forum right now and you guys may lose a couple of your posts (since I am doing the unenviable job of manually transferring posts to the new forum, thanks to the lousy backup system at the old hosting place) but hey, it’s not like we’re gonna lose a lot! At least this will never happen with the NEW forum! (wink wink)

But anyway, considering we have the site up and running, we’ve got a couple of nice, wonderful announcements to make. No, none of us are getting a sex change operation, but what we are doing is giving away some wonderful @theangrypixel.com email addresses, complete with POP3/SMTP support. And all we want in return is your soul, a couple of pounds of your flesh and a few quarts of your blood, bridal night privileges and your first born child! ….. Nah, we’re not that greedy, we just want you guys to start churning out content for the blog as well as the main site, so we can get the show up and running! So, if you have any nice gaming related articles, reviews, previews, in fact, anything related to the gaming world, send it over to us for inclusion on the main site or become an author for the blog.

We’re ignoring what little’s left of our social lives to bring this to you, so please, start churning out content, you miserable lowlives… umm, I mean, loyal friends.. oops, heh heh!

Also, do feel free to let us know what you think of the blog, its new theme and the new forum as well. We’re also getting up a thread at the official ANGRYpixel forum to let you guys vote on what themes you want to see for the forum as well as whatever hacks you think you need. Now that we’ve gotten out of the way, and we have our own little corner of “teh Intarweb”, start blogging and let us know how passionate you really are about your games. Ciao!