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Mission Statement

Here at OMGN, we pride ourselves on one thing: being gamers and movie buffs. That's really all we're about. We like video games & movies and like to write about them. If we had a mission statement, it would read something like this:

Satisfy Your Entertainment Urges

That's not tough, right? Just go play games and watch movies! And if you want to write about them, be it reviews, interviewing people in the video games & movie industries or just spouting off your opinions, then OMGN is for you. A brief history...

Brief History

OMGN originally began as "OMGN: Online Multiplayer Gaming Network." We built ourselves to cover the online multiplayer video game market because in 2002 that market was much smaller than it is today. As time progressed, we changed names to "OMGN: Online Multiplayer Games Network" to better reflect that we didn't actually host any games. Eventually, online multiplayer games represented the vast majority of the video game industry. We also then extended our site coverage to include movies, as many gamers (both on our staff and in our readership) are also moviegoers. This our full site name is "OMGN: Online Movies & Games Network," but we go by OMGN normally these days because it's easier.

In 2010 we archived off our old website, which was intended only to serve as a vehicle for online multiplayer games information. It is available at archive.omgn.com for your perusal. Really, that's about it for our brief history.

What Joining Us Means

Well, anybody can register a free account and login to use the member-only services, such as commenting on articles. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about upgrading your membership from a reader to a contributor. If you want to write when you have time and perhaps get a foot into the journalism industry, then OMGN is exactly what you need. We pride ourselves in allowing people to get a start in video game & movies journalism, even if it's a bite-sized affair that goes nowhere. We're not a big conglomerate, we're just a bunch of gamers and movie buffs who want to write about what interests us.

We understand that anybody can write about games & movies on other websites as reader-contributors, such as GameSpot and IMDB. And that's fine, but we're a smaller outfit with our own styles. You could potentially reach more exposure here. That, and if you're really wanting to break into journalism, then being a site-level contributor rather than a reader-contributor would probably be more beneficial.

We do have a minimum activity level in force here at OMGN in order for staff members to remain staff members. We want to push ourselves to do what we can for OMGN and ourselves and having an inactive staff does nothing to further that end. If you feel that you're up to the task of writing at least one article per week, then we'd really be glad to have you. Note that exceptions can be made for busy weeks, and doubling up one week to free the next is acceptable too. And obviously, editors don't need to write an article per week; they just edit!

Do I Get Paid?

Why yes, you do get paid! Our pay model here is based in advertising. The writer(s) will earn 50% of all advertising revenues generated from the article's unique URL up to $50.00 (for multiple writers, the $75.00 is split). Any articles copy edited will net the copy editor(s) 20% of all advertising revenues generated from edited articles up to $35.00 per article (for multiple editors, the $35.00 is split). This provides OMGN with the capability to pay you when you do well and provides our writers and editors with an incentive to produce good quality work that gets traffic.

We understand you cannot control the global traffic levels here at OMGN. Just remember that the more traffic you are able to drive to your articles on the site, the more money you're going to make. So if you're published here on OMGN, go out and spread the word of your exploits because it is mutually beneficial for you to do so.

We can calculate per-article what our revenues are. Monthly we will transfer your earnings to you via PayPal, so you will need a PayPal account to be paid. That's really about it!

Still Want To Join?

We have plenty of things for you to do to here at OMGN if you want to write or just help out in general. We need writers of all types, from reviewers to regular columnists to those with a nose for news. We need editors and people to go seek out data about the video game and movie industries for inclusion here at the site. If you're interested, then please send an email to Publisher Robert F. Ludwick at rfludwick [at] darqflare [dot] com. We'll then figure out where you can help out!

Don't Want To Join? - Blogging Revenue Sharing Available

Even if you don't want to join us, if you register an account and start blogging, you can still participate in revenue sharing! Blogs don't automatically get as much exposure across the web unless you do the marketing yourself (and they're not listed in Google News, for example), but the mechanism for blogging revenue sharing is the same for our staff writers, save for some number tweaks. You'll get 60% of all blog post-specific revenue up to a lifetime of $60.00 per blog post.