The Return of Xbox Overview
It's been a long time coming, but the time is near for the revival of the site that has remained dormant for the latter part of 2022. To say this has been a tough year for me (and many of you I'm sure) would be an understatement and the lack of updates to the site are a direct result of this. 2023 will see an active effort to restore the site and continue to submit reviews and articles. Thanks for checking out the site and I hope you discover some cool new games to check out!
A Proper Site Intro/Welcome
With the planned resurrection of Xbox Overview, this is as good a time as any to do a proper introduction as well as a quick site history and author bio. Welcome to Xbox Overview, which is a back-to-basics, no-frills site delivering reviews of games and peripherals that released for Xbox hardware as well as the consoles themselves. We'll delve a bit more into what the site covers here shortly, but first let me get started by telling you a bit about me...
A Brief Bit About the Author
Greetings, my name is Lee and I love playing video games when I have some spare time to kill. I'm a bit of a gaming veteran at this point, having made it into my 40's. Rather than just dismiss these reviews as words from some old dude rambling I find it better to look at it from a different perspective: I've been a life-long gamer since the mid-80's, starting out on the Atari 2600 then onto the Nintendo Entertainment System and everything beyond that. Basically, I've been through my fair share of games so I have a ton of reference points when it comes to video games in general.
While I love modern-gaming and modern 3D visuals continue to impress me, the old dude in me still loves old-school 2D pixel art as well. My favorite genres are first-person shooters, racers, beat 'em ups, shoot 'em ups and run & guns. You can expect extensive coverage when it comes to those genres, particularly indie titles and games with a retro flavor. I like to mix things up every now and then, so those will not be the only genres covered on the site and I like to play a little of everything. There's no type of bias and all of my games were purchased with my own money, so believe me I'll tell you straight up if a game sucks or not. If a game is ever provided by a publisher or developer for a review, this will be clearly stated in the review.
Xbox Overview Site History
Xbox Overview originally launched in May 2017 with the review of an Xbox Live Arcade game called Axel & Pixel. At the time of the creation of the blog, the shutdown of the Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) storefront on the Xbox 360 had recently been announced. As someone who loved digging through the indie games looking for gems, the site was created as an effort to point out some of the better offerings on the service before the ability to purchase the games had been revoked. While a good chunk of these games saw a release on other platforms (usually PC), there were some rare instances where the game was only available on XBLIG and once the service shutdown those games would be gone for good.
After doing some decent coverage of XBLIG titles, I found that I enjoyed doing game review write-ups and continued on by expanding into other Xbox 360 and Xbox One game reviews. Fast-forward several years later and I've decided to take on games from any Xbox platform. There's so many games now available across several generations of gaming and our time in this world is limited, so I'd like to be of some assistance in helping you recognize which games are more worthy of your precious time than others.
The Planned Xbox Overview Overhaul
In addition to expanding the game review library across all systems, I have some big plans for the site in the future. In addition to the normal game, controller/accessory and console reviews, I'd like to also look into more apps available and movies that can be watched within those apps. The movie reviews will mostly be video game related movies at first and if the reception is positive I'd like to branch out to other movies as well. In order to broaden the site's audience I'm going to make a concentrated effort to get the site out there via social media presence and other possible outlets. Updates will be sporadic but they will indeed happen, I'm not the best with schedules so I'll just post stuff as time allows.
Thanks for checking out the site! Happy holidays and let's make 2023 be a better year than the last one!!!
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