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Mission Statement:
Portable Review is dedicated to bringing our readers in-depth, hands on
reviews of all things portable. When Portable Review was founded, there
were few sites dedicated solely to handheld gaming. Since our start two
years ago, we have gained a faithful readership and hope to continue growing
as the portable gaming world increases in popularity.
About:
It's been a long and winding road over here at Portable
Review. We've went through many changes through our life, and hopefully
you've all enjoyed them. When we started out, sites dedicated to
handheld gaming were far and few in between. Now with the recent release
of the DS and the PSP, handheld gaming is on the rise. We hope to cover
the battles, between graphics and innovation, with the latest coverage
possible.
This was started back in late October of 2003, by three portable gaming
enthusiasts who had just come off of a brief stint as editors for a
small GBA site. Bloodspoor and Fastbilly knew each other from another
small GBA site, called GBA Unlimited. Which the way I understand it,
they left to work on the other GBA site. Knives was new to the group,
but made their ideas into something real (which sounds corny, but it's
true). After the GBA site failed due to bad management, we all decided
to create our own site, Portable Review.
We hope to update the site as frequently as possible with the latest
news, reviews, and all the rest of that random stuff you want us to
provide. Of course, life sometimes does get in the way, but we've got
enough staff to keep us going through the dry times now. Enough of the
small talk. We hope you enjoy this site as much as we enjoy producing it
(Even if Bloodspoor denies it, he enjoys it too.)
- Knives
Stages of Portable Review:
Version 1 - 'PRLite'
This design was intended to be exactly what the title implies. This was
the 'Lite' or pre-site for Portable Review. IT was only about 1/2 the
size of our current layout in width. By the time we finished this
design, we had about 20 reviews under our belt. The next design would
launch only a few months later though.
Version 2 - 'PR Classic'
This design launched on January 16th, which happens to be one our staff
member's birthdays. By the end of this layout, we had about 50 reviews
done, and more coming daily. Portable Review was still growing and
moving forward. This design only lasted about 4 months, but was an
important step for us.
Version 3 - 'PR Modern'
This layout introduced one major thing to Portable Review, a dark
layout. This design was launched on April 17th because PR's server got
attacked. We decided to go on to v3, instead of fixing v2. This was our
biggest period of so far and by the end of this layout, we had over 200
reviews. This layout lasted a year plus a few months.
Version 4 - 'PR Revamped'
Taking our success from our previous layout, instead of redoing the
whole thing, we decided to just revamp it to our needs. It expanded into
different colors to cover different consoles, and gave the whole site a
new and fresh look. This version also included a whole new backend which
will allow us to do more, and keep moving forward.
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