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Question by Money Murphy:
Video game review websites?
I have a question about sites such as Gamespot and IGN or Gamespy if you want… can anyone just begin up a website and review the newest games like those guys do? Because if you can do that then im missing out on money huge time.

I kow how to build websites, ive taught myself and ive become very good at it, im not just speaking about Dreamweaver either, i mean Javascript, XML, HTML, CSS, XHTML all of that, Photoshop, browser scripting like JavaScript, serverside scripting etc etc.

So ive got that bit covered. Now the other part is that i write video game reviews for free and i do them really well, sometimes i think i should be doing it and getting something for doing it because i put a lot of work into it.

So my question is this, can i just go ahead and begin up a video game review site, with me doing all of the work myself? Depending on how many people visit the site i could make money off of advertisements and links at the end of each review to purchase that game you know? Surely it cant be that simple though can it? There is got to be a catch somewhere… what do you think?
of course starting off would be really slow until you get a good amount of people visiting the site no one is going to want their advertisements on the site which means i wouldnt get paid for some time. But even as a hobby id do it but if i could make some money all the better.


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ign, gamespot

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