I am thinking about changing the name of the blog.
This is not as surprising as it might sound. I have been thinking about it since about two days after I started it.
I picked the current name on a whim and have been vaguely dissatisfied with it ever since.
Such is life.
This time around I though I would ask for read input. I need some creativity, because there are constraints.
I cannot bear to give up the current address so I can maintain the illusion that I have a decent readership. I don’t want to change the URL and find out just how many people keep me in their RSS reader out of laziness. After five years and almost 2,500 posts later, I am sure there are a few people who would not notice if I stopped posting. So any new name must fit the acronym TAGN.
Plus I obviously worked so hard on this logo!
So who can come up with a potential blog name that fits the acronym and also keeps gaming… and online gaming if possible… in the picture as well?
I thought about Triaminoguanidine Nitrate, since it is designated by those four letters and seems inseparably associated with the blog on Google, but it doesn’t really get across the right idea.
So I am looking for some brain storming out there.
Treat this as a word game. Find something that fits the acronym.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 
No idea on new name. But though mostly just a reader, I’d certainly notice if you stopped blogging regularly as is usual :)
LikeLike
Drop the ‘The’ and add News Network to the end…
AGNNN
Pronounced ‘AG-nnnnn’
no, wait!
Ancient Gamer Offers News for You
AGONY
Yeah…
LikeLike
Since your site has tagn in the name and you are hosted on wordpress. I would research how a well 301 redirect would work in your situation or you could stand to lose all your google mojo.
LikeLike
@JB – Yes, there are a number of solvable technical issues involved with changing up the blog. But I really want to play a word game here. Make a new name with the letters TAGN.
Terrible Alternative Gaming News?
LikeLike
This Again? Gaming Night!(mares)
LikeLike
Transgender Alien Going North
The Google traffic would be off the charts, and you could easily do a ‘fun spam of the day’ post.
LikeLike
Wilhelm, no change needed imho. People don’t change. Only their costumes do.
I love the title and sub-title that comes along with it. It fits how you write, your perspective and what you share of your as a person.
LikeLike
The Alternate Gaming News?
The Aged Gaming Nerd?
The Accidental Gaming Nerd?
LikeLike
There is a T and A joke in here somewhere–I’m sure it would drive some traffic, too.
LikeLike
I think there are quite a few people who actually read you blog.
I also don’t see a problem with the name. It’s quite unique.
The logo could use some work :)
LikeLike
That’s another game ‘ntirely
Totally Awesome Gaming News
Trying Any Game Now
Timeless Adventure Game Nostalgia
LikeLike
The Ancient Gaming Noob is Thinking About Getting Named.
If you want to change the name go for it, but I don’t think handcuffing yourself to the same acronym is going to make it a successful proposition.
But then, I’m biased, because I don’t want you to change the name at all, so…
LikeLike
Tendentious Attitudes Given Notice? That sort of fits you…
I’m trying to work out something about taking ridiculous numbers of screenshots and saving install discs for 10 years, but so far there’s nothing.
LikeLike
Tales and GOON news
LikeLike
Off topic, but WordPress is doing something strange. It says it recognizes my email, but I’m not logged in, and I should hit the back button and log in. But there’s no place here to log in to WordPress.
I used a faked email address to get around this but Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
LikeLike
And, just in case you were wondering, this totally wasn’t an idea for a contest to help me come up with an April Fools joke that I blew off until the last minute because I couldn’t come up with a prize idea or anything so just threw it out there at the last minute. No, not at all.
*cough*
If you come up with something totally whacky, I’m sure it won’t ever see if here again.
More aliens please.
@Toldain – WordPress.com is up to something. I’ve heard this before. They cannot leave well enough alone… says the guy fishing for new blog names.
LikeLike
This Acronym Got Nobbled.
Tales of Adventure and Gaming Nirvana.
Tenebrous And Grandly Nonsensical.
Temerarious Accounts of a Gaming Nomad.
LikeLike
Their Arses Get Noodled
LikeLike
@HZ – But forcing the acronym as one of the parameters is part of what makes it fun. It is like anagrams for people like me who cannot do anagrams without that web site.
Throwing out some more for fertilizer:
There Are Gaming Ninjas
Twins Are Going Nude
Two Amigos Go (to) Norrath
That’s A Girl’s Name
Tag aus Niederländisch Geheime
LikeLike
I was going for Telara! Azeroth! …! Norrath! but I can’t think of a gameworld you write about that begins with G. Goonswarm might work…
I really, really like “That’s A Girl’s Name” though.
LikeLike
@Bhagpuss – Our EVE corp was headquartered in the Gid solar system, so it could be Telara! Azeroth! Gid! Norrath!
LikeLike
Testing Advocate Gets Nerdy
LikeLike
The Alien Gnostic Network?
Tiny Arthropod Glimmering Nightwear…
OK, I’m sure there are better ones rattling around in this head. I’ll be back.
LikeLike
Tango Alpha Golf Foxtrot
Tassels & Gunracks
LikeLike
Talk Arcturus! Game Now!
Or you could start calling what you do TAG’N. Create your own slang.
LikeLike
The only good one I thought of Tipa thought of first. BAH!
Typing Ambitiously (of) Gaming Nonsense?
No, it’s not nonsense :) just trying to match your letters!
LikeLike
Well if you wanna change (still against it tho TAGN!) then what about
Time Ascended Gaming News
Tidbits ‘an Gaming Nerdeliciousness
* News and Nerdeliciousness are interchangable.
p.s. Tag aus Niederländisch Geheime acronym is TANG… do you have Dutch herritage or sumthing?
LikeLike
Why not do a Prince thing and just change it to TAGN. Even make a point to state that it doesn’t stand for anything… Very post modern!
LikeLike
@DeSlisser – Niederländisch is the German word for the Netherlands, so German heritage, though I needed a proper noun with an “N.” And I also wanted to open things up to other languages.
LikeLike
a Touch Ambiguous Gay Nerd
Totally Amped Gaming News
Tripping Around Game Nirvana
LikeLike
Trees Are Gigantic Nuisance
LikeLike
I can’t come up with anything good on a whim.
I really like your current blog name though! It’d be a shame if it went away. Though, you’re the author, and if you don’t like it… maybe you should have a poll later on that… wait, I got one! “Tales of Antique Games (and New ones)”!
Ok, I give up.
(and yay, I finally figured out how to post again! How we all love wordpress, don’t we?)
LikeLike
TAGN Aint Gaming Noob
LikeLike
Temporally attracted to game nostalgia
LikeLike
I really like the current name. Both Ancient and Noob show a disregard for the vagaries of popular opinion that makes you truly admirable in my view.
LikeLike
This Archivist’s Gaming Nuances
LikeLike
I’m with Stabs – The Ancient Gaming Noob is a fine name :-)
LikeLike
@Wizardling – It is far too late to influence my lack of an April Fools joke now. And the point was to get people to play with the acronym, not to get positive reinforcement about the current (and probably forever) name of the blog. Hah!
LikeLike
Ha, that’s a shame, as after reading other comments, I like ‘Trees Are Gigantic Nuisance’ a lot. I keep getting stuck on them in EQ while autorunning :-\
LikeLike