So what exactly happened with SEGA Nerds? Did you guys sell it out and it went to pot (sorry for my British sayings, it means "went to shit").
I have heard of SEGA Nerds a few years ago with that Tweedbury Murdoch fellow (I don't know if that name is correct), and some deal but nothing else.
Would be happy to read what happened to that site to make SEGAbits exist.
George would better explain it, I might not have all the details correct, but from what I remember basically Chris and Graham (SEGA Nerds owners) partnered with this site called The Kartel. The Kartel was meant to be a general gaming and pop culture blog with a points system where you could earn prizes and stuff. SEGA Nerds would exist on their network and integrate the Kartel system. Pretty soon, however, the system drove away visitors and hurt the overall look and feel of the site. Content quality took a nose dive, the forums started to dry up. So Ryan and George, who were SEGA Nerds writers, went and created SEGAbits. SEGAbits had elements that we liked from SEGA Nerds, and new elements that Ryan and George wanted to implement but couldn't under SEGA Nerds (both pre-Kartel, and especially post-Kartel).
So now, three years later, Chris and Graham are looking to bring the SEGA Nerds site back. It's gonna be interesting, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do, because as is SEGAbits has always been SEGA Nerds 2.0 to me. In fact, I got into SEGA Nerds late in the game and loved the site (pre-Kartel) and wanted to be a writer. But by the time I had a portfolio of sites that I worked on, Nerds was dead and bits was the awesome new site. So Ryan reached out to me and I joined the site as a writer... now an admin.
What is most interesting is that SEGAbits also has something big planned...
