Tom's Games Announces New Direction

Article by Tuan Nguyen.

BestofMedia Group announces a new direction for Tom's Games. Read on to find out what is.

Tom's Games Announces New Direction

WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!!! Just found the link to the message!

This is crap, who the f*ck wants another miniclip. Your reviews and second takes is what makes tomsgames different and great. This is absolute $hit and I don't see the point in it at all. It was my last place that had serious PC gamers and a pc gamer perspective with affiliation to a hardware site.


EDIT: Well then, Rob and Travis you will be missed but I have a question, is Ben going with you guys or what's up with that? I know his only contribution really was to host the video's but he also posted on the forums.

toms hardware and toms games is part of my daily web browsing and its sad to see this happening to toms games. I don't get it either, are there not enough flash games on the internet.

I seriously doubt Best of Media gives a flying **** about what few disgruntled users on these forums think, they're going to do what they're going to do. And people will like it...of course not us...but new users will, and so long as numbers don't plummet they'll keep going.

With that out of the way, my two disgruntled cents...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. True today as the day that phrase was first spoken.

What I'd like to see clarified is does "new direction" mean ditching everything old and starting brand new, or does it mean cutting some stuff and adding some new stuff? I wouldn't hate the latter. I can almost guarantee you from the sound of it I wont like or in any way shape or form use the latter but as long as Second Take and individual game reviews are still being made as regular as before, but I wouldn't *hate* this "new direction."

If Tom's Games is going to be nothing more than a Flash game website, I feel this would completely discredit the entire Tom's network. For years and years Tom's has been THE place to go to get news, reviews, and articles on what's happening with technology. When you reference Tom's you know it's something serious, thorough, and in depth... but Flash games? No sir, nobody is going to take a website that focuses on Flash games seriously. We are not children and we do not appreciate Best of Media regurgitating a place we love as a place for little kids who don't have a long enough attention span to play a REAL game because they haven't taken their A.D.D. meds.

And for full disclosure, I have animated quite a bit and scripted in Flash, and even made a few Flash games (none you'd ever see them because I can't write script that well, but they still worked...just a bit too glitchy for the general public), but even I think the best Flash games don't belong on Tom's. The market is saturated enough.

Lol,

Flash games? Who the hell cares about those? We don't come to a tech hardware site blaring the latest gen tech just to end up playing frik'n marbles and gem stones in Flash games!

Bollocks.

Very best,

Best post you ever wrote, who needs a wall of text eh

Flash games? Who needs another flash game site?
Byebye...

"Tom's Games Announces New Direction"

...down the toilet

I just checked my calendar thinking I missed about 4 months and it was actually April Fools Day. Sadly this is instead the worst Christmas gift ever.

Terrible news. *insert pacman dying noise here*

So Im assuming this means your leaving Toms Games Rob?

Having read many of your articles over the past year and a half Im guessing you wont be happy there after the change.

Well best of luck with whatever you do.

Its really hard to find a honest game reviewer out there now. You've always been a straight shooter and the industry needs more of you. However it looks like once again we will be left with more, yes men in the industry that hand out 10's in exchange for a paycheck.

Oh… My… God…

http://www.tomsgames.com/adult/

Needless to say, that is most definitely NSFW.

Way to keep it classy, Best of Media.

It's all been said before me... Bye bye to what made tomsgames worth a click.

Wall of rant text for the win!

Wow, just wow.

WHAT A DISSAPOINTMENT! I cannot belive it! I hope Second Take reappears in another website, cause I won't be visiting this f**cking sold out website no more. Go to hell!

http://www.tomsgames.com/adult/



?!?!?!?!?!?!? are you **** kidding me?!?!?!?!?!?

A tech enthusiast site, yes lets turn it into a porn site!

WTF were you thinking, you have just rapped this site....

LOL,

TomsPorn.com

****'n good job.

Cheers,

Flash games? Seriously? We lose Second Take and honest game reviews for *this*?

I can't imagine many existing Toms Games readers flocking to Flash Games. I have no idea what Best of Media is thinking, but it makes no sense to me.

Oh well, one less site to visit during the week.

"That's it man, Tom's Games' is over man, game over! What the **** are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"

I think there's actually a game in the adult section that let's you do that.... at least I wouldn't be surprised!

Fanta Flash Tower Defender is fun, id hit that

bah. I used to visit tom's games almost daily, but with this.. 'new direction' I'll have to make an effort to stay as far away from it as humanly possible.
This is ****, and I hope the 'new' tom's games fails miserably.

Changing the only 'real' review site by actual mature gamers into a casual gamers flash site???

What is the point of that, few who come here now are 'flash game' types, so why not just start a new site altogether?

This 'Nude Erection' sounds like some marketing wetness based on people buying a lot of Wiis and someone thinking, 'the money is in casual gaming, let's jump on that trend'.

Ah well, the dumbing down comes to us all, whoever is now running this site, go and rent 'Fast Food Nation' and pat yourselves on the back and enjoy your ****-filled meat patties.

Umm.. that is the most retarded thing I have seen in a while. Review site turning into a flash repository? LOL. GG Toms, now I don't have a reason to ever leave Anandtech.

Wow....!!! I'll certainly miss your honest mature and forthright reviews Rob. Too bad these cost cutting measures are being felt everywhere these days. I have to say that over the past few years Toms has held first place on my Firefox toolbar...but not any longer. Ever since the last format change I haven't been able to find anything in Toms unless it happens to be on the front page that day! Used to be this was the "go to" site for puter geek wannabees like me. You guys have to get a site up, hit the forums all over the place and let us know it's up and running....K?

I can see it all now flash games and 13 year olds go together like ham and eggs. Whooohooo!!
The forums are going to be just awash in little whitebreads gettin all homie and tawkin trash, gettin in each others grills and $hit. LOL Man....one of the previous posters mentioned the dumbing down on the site. That's an understatement if I ever heard one.

Good luck guys....Hope ya get a game review site up, so we can come and visit

Cheers,

The Canuck