{"id":7,"date":"2009-03-19T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-10-24T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T03:33:23","slug":"welcome-to-byticacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Bytica.com!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve happened to stumble across this site, welcome! This is that Obligatory First Post where I introduce myself and offer a glimpse as to what you&#8217;ll find here.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Sal Accardo, and if you&#8217;re reading this, there&#8217;s a good chance you already know me as &#8220;Sluggo,&#8221; from writing for GameSpy.com over the past 10 years. Having recently parted ways with my old home, this site will be a place for me to talk about games from (what I hope will be) an experienced point of view. What does that mean? The site is obviously a work in progress, but likely includes the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Daily news bits &#8211; not news releases, but a daily roundup of big going-ons with some commentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Regular editorials &#8211; I love to rant, and this is a perfect forum for it, whether it&#8217;s about the games themselves, the gaming business, or even gaming coverage.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Occasional reviews &#8211; I&#8217;m certainly not going to cover everything, but I&#8217;ll be posting reviews of whatever I happen to be playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; A healthy dose of Guitar Hero \/ Rock Band coverage, including regular DLC videos (it&#8217;s hard for me to believe, but my YouTube videos are now over 1700 subscribers and 3.8 million views)<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Small bits of off-topic game stuff &#8211; music, TV, movies, sports, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a long-term goal here? Not really. I&#8217;ve always liked to write, to inform, to share opinions, and I&#8217;m hoping this will be a place to do so with people interested in the same stuff.<\/p>\n<p>About the name: no, it doesn&#8217;t mean anything. I was looking for something short and abstract while sounding somewhat techy, and &#8220;Bytica&#8221; is what I settled on. Hey, if you can do a site called &#8220;Kotaku&#8221; or &#8220;Giant Bomb&#8221;, I can get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>The site is still very much a work in progress, so don&#8217;t be surprised to see the design change repeatedly during these early weeks. Feedback is definitely appreciated, so if there&#8217;s something you like, or don&#8217;t like, or would like, by all means say so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve happened to stumble across this site, welcome! This is that Obligatory First Post where I introduce myself and offer a glimpse as to what you&#8217;ll find here. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}