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What is GamingBOB.com?

GamingBOB was established in May of 2007 as a sandbox personal website. In July of 2007 the website turned into a video gaming news website. With the change came the “Back-Off Boredom!” slogan as an acronym for BOB.

The site is dedicated to video gaming, hardware, industry news and bits of other content thrown in. GamingBOB will bring you observations and news stories from around the web.

GamingBOB has achieved some moderate success since its beginning. On August 24, 2007 an article about the popular game BioShock containing a rootkit hit the front page of Slashdot. The article led to a lot of controversy in the video gaming world which catapulted GamingBOB in to the spotlight. Shortly after the article hit the front page of Slashdot, the rootkit was discovered to be a false positive and the article was changed to reflect the misconception.

Due to the BioShock article, GaminBOB was referenced in Wikipedia and included in the Yahoo! Directory. In October of 2007 the site was included in the Open Directory Project, commonly known as DMOZ. As a result GamingBOB is also included in the Google Directory.

Hopefully as the site continues to grow it will gain more popularity and recognition in the video gaming industry.

Your Author

I have been a gaming enthusiasts for all my life, starting with the Atari gaming system in my friends basement, and on to the Nintendo, Gameboy, Sega Genesis, N64, Playstation, PC, blah, blah, blah. Now that I am getting older I don’t get to play as often anymore, because I am either working or busy doing other things. But, I still like to keep track of what’s going on in the gaming industry. I can appreciate where the gaming industry has come from, and am still amazed at the progress made with each new gaming system and games. I don’t think I will ever stop playing games, because I am still a big kid and/or a big dork.

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