About
The Game Drone is a unique one-man blog on everything PC gaming. It’s been designed as an alternative to the often news based, multi platform and mainstream gaming blogs that litter the interweb. Rather than going with the flow, I thought it’d be a good idea to implement a more magazine-like approach. This means The Game Drone focuses on genuine original content such as articles, guides, impressions, previews, rants, recurring items, reviews and media galleries - rather than simply reporting the latest news as inaccurate fast as possible. I intend to provide you with only the best and most accurate of PC gaming info on mainstream and underdog games alike, combined with a healthy dose of humor, ranting and discussion. That being said: of course I’ll cover some PC gaming news as well.
The name was coined after my own nickname, Droniac, which was oddly inspired by drones and kamikaze units of the Command & Conquer games. Even I am not quite sure how I made Droniac out of that, but I did, and thus far it’s been my exclusive online handle. So if you see a Droniac online, then that’s bound to be me. The Game Drone is an extension of that, referring to both myself and the blog itself. This blog is my PC gaming outlet to the world and that is why it is named as it is… well, that and because it sounds cool. In no way is it a reference to any of the dictionary definitions of drones, instead this blog is intended to be the opposite of a drone: far from monotonous, not just another one in the pack and certainly not an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Gaming Preferences
The Game Drone is modeled after my gaming preferences, which means that I’ll mostly be covering the games I am interested in. As such I will only cover PC games and mainly the staple genres of First Person Shooter, Strategy, Role-Playing and Massively Multiplayer Online games. However, instead of focusing on the most popular and mainstream of these, I intend to highlight the less well known/popular games.
Contrary to your average PC gamer I tend to enjoy Battle Realms over WarCraft 3, Guild Wars over World of Warcraft, Unreal Tournament 2004 over Counter Strike, Return to Castle Wolfenstein over Battlefield & Neverwinter Nights 2 over Oblivion. Unconventional? Certainly, but that’s precisely the purpose of this blog: to circumvent conventions and head off to new game-blogging territory in it’s own, unique, manner.
A Quick History
- The first time the name ‘The Game Drone’ was used for a blog was on April 11th, 2006 back on the popular Blogger service. This was in an entirely different, more ordinary, format than the blog you see before you today.
- On January 24th, 2007 I switched the blog over to the new Blogger service and implemented a full redesign, this time opting for a quality over quantity, magazine-influenced, blogging style.
- After many revisions it finally became apparent that Blogger simply couldn’t offer the kind of control I was looking for - and by September 4th, 2007 the new WordPress-hosted Game Drone went live on it’s new domain.
