Gameforms

But with closer inspection, they found that they were yet again wrong, as most of the GIA's staff had been working on a more professional approach to gaming news, through Gameforms, a new site that opened on May 1, 2002.

Actually, conforming to the casualty on the Internet, they were a day late, but that's not the point.

Gameforms, headed by Andrew Kaufmann, promises to be the new Internet leader of news for RPG, puzzle, music and other thought-inducing games. Their ominous motto is: "Art forms. Life forms. Gameforms."

Gameforms can be found at http://www.gameforms.com

Gameforms is the successor to GIA, opened after the GIA eventually collapsed under its complete lack of revenue or business model. Early indications are not good. Gameforms seems to carry over (and extend) the GIA's elitist pretentiousness while coupling it with a truly hideous site design. Without the archives of information and media on hundreds of games (albeit skewed to certain specialisations), and in fact very little content at all that hasn't been beaten to death elsewhere, it is difficult to see how GameForms will attract readers. At least their bandwidth bills won't bankrupt them though.