Blog number eight is up and at 'em, though it's a pretty quiet week with a lot of background stuff again.
Steadying On
Last week, no real solid editorial topics reared their head. We had the news about the GTA Trilogy but if you've been keeping track of the news lately regarding GTA modding, I think it's clear why it wasn't wise for us to cover that particular topic. There's no winning with an editorial like that. In the end, then, only one editorial (and video) made it out - the Top 5 Horror Mods To Scare Your Socks Off On ModDB on Halloween 2021.
Spookums
The Halloween video was an easy win and choice, naturally. Horror mods are one of the most historically relevant and popular mod topics ever, and some of the biggest mods of all time were spooky ones. I'd only played a lot of one of the mods on this list and had the pleasure of finding a few new favourites by putting together this list. It's doing pretty well compared to the last few vids though I also identified strategies to make underperforming videos cross the distance in the long run, so all in all, the YouTube is chugging along, same as ever.
Running Soon
Going into this week, I had Monday off to spend with my girlfriend, but scheduled an editorial for the Monday with some DOOM news, and already had another idea for an editorial for today. The two so far, then, are DOOM Eternal Receiving 6.66 Update; 5 DOOM Mods Where The Only Thing They Fear Is You, and Aliens vs Predator 2's 20th Anniversary; 5 AvP2 Mods That Revive The Classic.
I've loved DOOM Eternal since it came out and been replaying it from time to time, though I've not yet started TAG Part 2. The 6.66 update was pretty well received and I'm excited for it. More info on how this article did next week, after some time.
The other editorial, AvP2, wasn't quite as close to my heart, but I recognised it was important to another long-standing mod community and figured it was a good excuse to get some coverage out there. More editorials is more site activity and viewership, and that's never a bad thing.
More details on both next week. I don't have any other editorial ideas for now but I will keep my ear to the ground in the interests of continuing site coverage.
The Next Number
With the easy Halloween topic out of the way, I'm back to whipping up ideas for videos. Luckily I have a few suggestions from the community to look through, so I might well consider pursuing one of those to save myself some thinking time. I'll keep my eyes peeled for more editorials, but there's more background stuff going on. Tabletop Playground had its community items reviewed and accepted, which means those'll come in the next big update, and meanwhile it's newsletter time again. In addition, the annual competitions are looming as per usual, meaning I've got to begin making preparations to get that under control. We've made some good forwards momentum, but we need to make sure that's still moving forwards to get it done in time.
Next blog'll probably be discussing Halloween casually, hopefully the video reaching 1k+ views, and also discussing the editorials. We'll see how everything pans out.
