Boomtown X

Dear friends I want to thank you all so much for the support you've shown our new little site over the couple of months we've been running. The figures for October are in and we've passed an important milestone. During the month of October we played host to over 10,000 unique users - 10,361 to be precise. The growth in the site over the two months has been really encouraging and we're delighted so many of you enjoy what we have to say.

This is the kind of thing that warms one heart and gives us the encouragement to keep on going. To be honest I was devastated by the closure of the original Boomtown site and felt that we had a lot of unfinished business to attend to - hence the creation of BoomtownX. The traffic figures show we were right to soldier on.

We've lots of work still to do - certainly in terms of turning around reviews quicker. Rockstar was kind enough to send me a review code for Undead Nightmare last week but I haven't finished that up yet. Thanks to the generosity of the industry we've plenty of reviews to bring you but with such a small team it's been hard keeping on top of things. I'm delighted to tell you though that many of the old Boomtown writers have joined us over the last weekend and we'll be bringing you many more timely reviews in future.

Of course we're a new site (albeit with a six year heritage and now a strong team of experienced writers) and there's plenty we can do better. We'd certainly welcome any of your suggestions or comments.

But for now I just wanted to say a big thankyou to those of you who read our new site, those of you who take the time to engage in the comments and those of you who have entered competitions. I'l also like to say a big thankyou to Electronic Arts, Rockstar Games, THQ, Paradox Interactive, BradyGames and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for your support of our new venture. Thanks one and all.

This is just the start, onwards and upwards.