Next week I start work on another gaming website: Movemodo.com, a PlayStation Move-specific site from the guys behind Nintendo Life. That gives me another site to maintain, and means I’ll have less time for The Collected Writings, sadly.
However, my super-smart brother Phil, of PhilNewton.net, has been busy developing a new look for this site that will finally fulfil the title’s promise. Everything I’ve ever written online – be it for Nintendo Life, Twitter or here – will be contained within these hallowed virtual walls.
There will be a few visual tweaks, but you’ll mostly notice a huge increase in content. For this blog over the past few years I’ve written nearly 100,000 words: for Nintendo Life in August alone I’ve written over 10,000, and I’ve been writing there since January 2008. This could provide some very interesting statistics, to me at least.
Soon this will be a digital vault of everything I’ve published online; well, the good stuff anyway. I’m very excited.
PS You might have seen this photograph of me in GamesTM issue 99, page 88
I look at the photos now and I find it astonishing, really: a true one-off occasion, with friends and family all present to show how much they cared for us. It’s humbling and heartwarming at the same time: it’s a wedding cliché to say that everybody’s presence mattered, but it genuinely did. Old friends, loved family members, energetic children: every person there made a huge contribution to the day.
I’ve been writing for Nintendo Life for about two and a half years now. In that time I’ve been to London, Paris, Poland and Dewsbury, reviewed over sixty games, written hundreds of articles and met dozens of wonderful people, from PRs to developers.
My name is James Newton, and this is my website - a collection of my writings about
videogames, music and all my other thoughts.







