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Rising Stars – Gaming Blogger Spotlight #4

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on September 29, 2019October 4, 2019

I wanted to make it easier for gaming writers to connect with the gaming blogger community, so I started the “Rising Stars” series where both veteran bloggers and readers can discover and welcome new or relatively unknown gaming writers into the community. I hope this will help to encourage and support individuals as well as maintain the health of the gaming blogger ecosystem overall!

You can find the previous Rising Stars posts here, and now let’s take a look at this week’s featured bloggers…

Posted in: blogging, community, gamer, gaming, geek, nerd, Nintendo Switch, playstation, videogames, xbox

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HUGE Blog Update – 300 followers, 10 patrons, press passes, new writer, and web design revamp

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on August 8, 2019August 12, 2019

I have a number of exciting updates to share with everyone about the state of Backlog Crusader today! This is a little long, but please bear with me.

Traffic and Followers

Backlog Crusader is three and a half months old and I am happy to report it has just passed the 300 WordPress and email follower milestone! On average the site is getting over 100 views a day, with spikes up to several hundred to over 1,000 depending on how well my post sharing strategy goes on social media.

Totals since day one on April 25th: 70 posts, 18,127 views, 9,678 unique visitors, 1,321 post likes, and 535 comments.

Posted in: community, discord, entertainment, gamer, gaming, geek, nerd, patreon, pax, Review, super smash brothers, videogames

Rising Stars

Rising Stars – Gaming Blogger Spotlight #3

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on August 4, 2019August 18, 2019

What is Rising Stars?

I wanted to make it easier for gaming writers to connect with the gaming blogger community, so I started this little series called “Rising Stars” where both veteran bloggers and readers can discover and welcome new or relatively unknown gaming writers into the community. I hope this will help to encourage and support individuals as well as maintain the health of the gaming blogger community overall!

You can find the last Rising Stars posts here, and now let’s take a look at this week’s five featured bloggers…

Posted in: blogging, community, entertainment, gamer, gaming, video games

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Real Neat Blog Award Tag

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on July 22, 2019July 22, 2019

Thank you to Emily of the delightful Monster Lady’s Diary who nominated me for the Real Neat Blog Award! Rules: Answer 7 questions, create 7 of your own, nominate 7 awesome bloggers to answer them! Goooo!

To answer Emily’s questions…

Posted in: community, final fantasy, fire emblem, gamer, gaming, lord of the rings, Nintendo Switch, video games, witcher, zoids

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Backlog Crusader is going to PAX West!

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on July 19, 2019August 12, 2019

It’s happening! We’re legit now, people!! I just wanted to thank my readers and fellow gaming bloggers for all of your support, especially my first Patrons on my Patreon, Normal Happenings and the Well Red Mage! I would never have been approved for a pass without all of you and I’m so grateful.

Anyone going to be at PAX or live in the Seattle area? Leave me a comment or email me if you’d like to meet up. 🙂

Posted in: blogging, community, entertainment, gaming, geek, girl gamer, nerd, Nintendo Switch, pax, video games

Gamer Culture

Video Game Literary Classics 101 – Part Three

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on July 17, 2019May 6, 2021

It’s time for the third and final installment of the Video Game Literary Classics 101 Collaboration! Definitely check out Part One and Part Two if you haven’t already.

Thank you so much to everyone who wrote an article for this series! There were quite a few unexpected picks and I truly appreciate everyone’s participation in my first gaming blogger community event. If you like this sort of video game literary perspective analysis and want some more, I’d highly recommend stopping by the Games as Literature YouTube Channel where the Game Professor has many excellent, long form videos to enjoy about a plethora of titles.

That said, here are the final submissions!

Posted in: bioshock, collab, community, culture, gamer, gaming, geek, gone home, halo, literature, nerd, video games, witcher

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National Pokédex Controversy – The Depth Behind Pokéfans’ Valid Outrage

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on July 14, 2019September 6, 2019

I have spent more time playing Pokémon games in my life than I’ve spent playing the top 5 games in my Steam library sorted by “most time played” combined. I could be considered an expert on Pokémon. I’ve played them all. I know them all. I know the community.

There has been an overwhelming amount of back and forth discourse in the Nintendo Switch gaming community lately about the removal of the National Pokédex from Pokémon Sword and Shield. Some fans support the change, but a majority of fans are vehemently against it. I want to dig a little deeper into the reasons why fans are so upset, and why expressing this outrage does not make them “entitled crybabies”.

Posted in: bringbacknationaldex, community, culture, entertainment, gamer, gaming, geek, national pokedex, nerd, Nintendo Switch, pokemon

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Video Game Literary Classics 101 – Part Two

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on July 9, 2019July 17, 2019

Welcome back for Part Two of the Video Game Literary Classics Collaboration! This week we leave the bright, optimistic plains of Nippon and Hyrule of Part One behind and head into ancient kingdoms steeped in shadow and futures full of technology gone wrong. Thank you to my better half, Connor, for assisting with some of these titles that he has played and I have not. Let’s take a look at the next set of classics selected by the gaming blogger community!

Posted in: blogging, collaboration, community, dark souls, detroit become human, entertainment, gamer, gaming, geek, hollow knight, nerd, nier, soma

Rising Stars

Rising Stars – Gaming Blogger Spotlight #2

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on July 7, 2019July 17, 2019

What is Rising Stars?

Posted in: blogging, community, entertainment, gamer, gaming, geek, nerd, video games

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Steam Key Giveaway Winners!

By Angie | Backlog Crusader on July 1, 2019

Good evening gamers! I just ran the 15 entrants through a Random.org list randomizer and below is the list of winners with the games each will be receiving. I’ll be sending out these codes via email tonight and tomorrow as time allows. Thanks for participating and for all of your support! ❤

Relsre – Epistory: Typing Chronicles
CJW – The Bridge
Santo – Dreadout
Robot – Getting Over It
Kassitar – The Road to Balhalla
Frostilyte – QUBE: Director’s Cut
This is Art Not Real Life – Her Story
Florian – Rising Storm 2 –
JB – Scanner Sombre
Fluxx – Insurgency
Nitro – Thirty Flights of Loving
QuietChisto – The First Tree
Odin – Kathy Rain
Tregs – Wargame: Red Dragon
Cvillian – Superbrothers: Swords and Sorcery

Posted in: community, gamer, gaming, giveaway, pc gaming