PixlBit

To my friends and those of you who I may not have met at 1up. To reflect on what we've seen and done there it just is an intangible thing that we feel we are losing, to some it can be related to that graduating year from High School, where you just know things are going to be different and you will likely lose contact with some of those people you knew and care about. Unfortunately time has a way of being both something to look forward to looking a head, and destructive looking backwards.

This is a question i've been asking for a few years now. With 1up wrapping up, it brings this question back to the forefront of my mind. Where is the gaming industry going? While 1up is more personal for me, so many gaming studio's have either been acquired or closed over the years, and its getting to the point where I can count the number of publishers on a single hand. This doesn't look good for our beloved hobby going forward.

Greetings! as many of the readers here likely know, 1up come is going dark after nearly 20 years of creating a fantastic community. Though as time has passed the community has dwindled, but many of us saw it as a place where the true spirit of gaming existed and lived on from the 90's. As its doors close and I follow as many friends as I can around the internet, I find that Pixlbit appears to have a similar ambiance to what 1up had when it first started. Its a budding website that reminds me a lot of 1up, where gamers are themselves and the spirit of what once was can perhaps grow and continue to exist.