Goodnight and Good Luck from 61 Frames Per Second
Three-hundred eighty-five days ago, 61 Frames Per Second launched with the mission of providing readers with, as I put it then, discussion about the design, art, history, and message of the games we play alongside our own unique brand of criticism. The blog was intended to not only be smart, funny, and informative, but to demand more of the videogame medium and the dialogue surrounding their creation and cultural significance. So far, thanks to the work of 61FPS’ contributors, it’s been just that.
As of June 1st, regular posting will cease on 61FPS. Our parent magazine Nerve is relaunching next week for the first time in ten years. Nerve began as a magazine about love, sex, and culture and that editorial mandate is staying the same, but it’s becoming a more focused publication. As such, entertainment and cultural coverage is being shifted away from Nerve’s blogs like 61FPS, The Remote Island, and Screengrab, and reintegrated into the site. The blog archives will remain live online.
This isn’t the end of 61 Frames Per Second though. Most importantly, our readers will still be able to follow the work of Bob Mackey and Nadia Oxford in GameSpite, 1UP.com, and What They Play amongst others. Cole Stryker, our resident curmudgeon and games journalism police force, isn’t writing about games at the moment, but there’s no way he’ll be able to stay away for long. Joe Keiser has had a prolific career as a games journalist and you can bet your life that you’ll see his work well into the future. 61FPS has been Amber Ahlborn’s first job as a professional writer and she has been a remarkable success. I expect great things from her. As for me and Derrick Sanskrit, stay tuned. Don’t delete your RSS feed just yet. You haven’t heard the last from us, dear reader.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for writing. Thank you for listening.
See you soon.
-John
John Constantine, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself. 
Derrick Sanskrit is a self-professed geek in a variety of fields including typography, graphic design, comic books, music and cartoons. As a professional hipster graphic designer, his recent clients have included Nerve, Pitchfork and MoCCA, among others.
Amber Ahlborn - artist, writer, gamer and DigiPen survivor, she maintains a day job as a graphic artist. By night Amber moonlights as a professional Metroid Fanatic and keeps a metal suit in the closet just in case. Has lived in the state of Washington and insists that it really doesn't rain as much as everyone says it does.
Nadia Oxford is a housekeeping robot who was refurbished into a warrior when the world's need for justice was great. Now that the galaxy is at peace (give or take a conflict here or there), she works as a freelance writer for various sites and magazines.
Based in Toronto, Nadia prizes the certificate from the Ministry of Health declaring her tick and rabies-free.
Bob Mackey is a grad student, writer, and cyborg, who uses the powerful girl-repelling nanomachines mad science grafted onto his body to allocate time towards interests of the nerd persuasion. He believes that complaining about things on the Internet is akin to the fine art of wine tasting, but with more spitting into buckets.
Joe Keiser has a programming degree from Johns Hopkins University, a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, and a fake toy guitar built in the hollowed-out shell of a real guitar. He writes about games and technology for a variety of outlets. One day he will stop doing this. The day after that, police will find his body under a collapsed pile of (formerly neatly alphabetized) collector's edition tchotchkes.
You guys will be missed. Not only was this a great site with insightful articles, but you all encouraged interaction. I’m sorry to see it go, but I’ll keep track of all your other work. Best of luck in future endeavors!
Such a shame. There are so few game blogs quite like this one. It seems like the writers here have more freedom to post about whatever they want than most sites. (That would explain why Nadia and Bob were able to post about Earthbound and Mega Man so goddamn much. :P)
NOOOOOOO!!!!! oh where will i be able to get my non-retarded game related news! tragedy! foul play! i say harrumph!!!! : (
This isn’t really a news blog, you know.
hey guys, i’ve never post here, but i was your everyday reader and i’ll be really missing you. Bwaaaaaaaa don’t go!
Seems all the best sections of Nerve are being taken down. Looks like I’ll have to search elsewhere for places to waste time on the job.
D’oh… sorry, guys, I enjoyed reading this blog, particularly for its RPG-centric tendencies. Bob, don’t let 1UP put you on permanent Top 5 List duty, OK?
I’m sorry if this gets sappy or anything, but I owe you guys so much. Thinking about, if I hadn’t read your bog, I’d end up as some wierdo on Kotaku or Joystiq, complaining about PS3 prices or something. I’m probably younger than a lot of your demograghic (you are affilitated to Nerve after all) but you guys taught me a lot about caring, respecting, and loving video games.
So where ever Bob “The Mack Attack” Mackey, Nadia “The Proffesor of Pain” Oxford, Amber “The Maimed” Ahlborn, and John “I Ain’t no Keanu Reeves” Constantine, and all the rest of you, I hope I can track you all down and find out what your writing, because I’ll be reading.
Regards,
Russ Walsh
All the best sites go before their time. This one is no different.
Best of luck, everyone. I’ll be rooting for you from the sidelines.
I didn’t expect to see this, not so soon after the blog was redesigned.
I really enjoyed 61FPS while it lasted. It was informed but informal. It was by people who weren’t afraid to show they were not just experts but fans too. I wish more sites were like that.
I’d like to thank everyone for all the great posts over the last year and wish them all luck with whatever comes next.
I’m really going to miss this site. 61fps seemed to be one of the few video game blogs where the writers actually wrote about what they thought was interesting, and produced great posts because of it. Best of luck to everyone, and thanks for all your great work.
What a bummer. Good luck in the future, guys.