It feels kinda odd to be writing an article about what I do, I mean, what is a games journalist anyway? How do you talk about your passion without sounding like you’re full of yourself or worse, sounding like you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Well, I’ve been writing about video games for a long time. I’d like to think that I know a little bit about how most of it works by now (or else I doubt I would have been employed as long as I have been). I guess for the purpose of this blog (since it’s a gaming blog), I can focus specifically on what…

I’ve got my hands on Dark Void for Xbox 360 now and I feel special as the game doesn’t officially release until next week here in New Zealand. I love getting game review code early – there’s nothing better than knowing you’re part of a very small and privileged group of people who are able to see games earlier than the public. Of course, game retailers get stuff even before us media peeps do but meh… who needs game retailers (lol, yes I AM KIDDING)

I’m a bit concerned about my anti-NCSoft stance on games lately. It seems that the experiences I’ve had with the lacklustre gaming content in Aion has really affected me. I’m usually not this emotionally charged when it comes to disliking a game but I guess Aion really got under my skin. So when I was playing Aion the other day, an online friend of mine thought he’d mention NCSoft’s new game in development called ‘Blade and Soul’. He described it as a Martial Arts adventure MMO where you can do “killing blows that kick people’s asses!”. My initial response to this in vent was “Oooooo” but I can’t recall if…

It’s no secret that I’m a huge SW fan. So when I first heard about BioWare developing an MMO in the Star Wars universe, I got really hyped for it. The following announcement was posted recently on the SWTOR forums which gave me the warm fuzzies: While we have not announced a specific date, we can confirm that we are targeting a spring 2011 release for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

You may (or may not) recall my preview of God of War 3. The code was very early code and I managed to get a little bit of a play with it when I attended a Sony night last year to preview a few of their games. I loved what I saw of it then.