So I feel like I owe you guys a bit of an explanation.

The blog has sucked lately. I haven’t really written anything interesting outside of the California game bill article in a while. Honestly, the last REAL article I wrote before that was the Pokémon article on April 12, and that was almost a month ago.

Sure, I was working on setting up the forums and things like that, but to be honest when it came time to sit down and write, I had NOTHING. I couldn’t think of anything to write about, so I’d just write about Rescue Rangers or F-Zero music or something like that. Those posts are fine, because this is still a personal gaming blog. However, having so many of those posts at once was, at least for me, inexcusable. But, I am my own worst critic.

(Yes I started a sentence with the word “but” and I know it’s wrong but I write how I talk so I’m leaving it.)

I think it’s because I’ve felt kind of disconnected from video games and the industry as a whole lately. The last game I got into was Final Fantasy XIII which was fun for a while, but after a while it turned into me slogging through it just so I could say I finished it (which I didn’t). Then I picked up Mass Effect 2, which I bought at a time when I was so fed up with RPGs that I couldn’t really bring myself to play it, even though I really liked it. Then I got Super Street Fighter IV, which I really enjoy and it’s fantastic, but I’m not relaxed when I play it. It’s a competition, and I get really frustrated with it easily when I get embarrassed online. So that’s three games, totaling over a month of playtime, that I wasn’t playing to have fun.

Video games are SUPPOSED to be fun.

Then I thought about when the blog started, and what I was really into at the time. I was on a huge Nintendo kick when PK Bloggin’! started, and looking back on what I was writing at the time about what’s important in a video game, I realized I need to step away from my Xbox 360 and get reacquainted with my Wii.

Now, don’t take this as me saying I don’t like my 360 anymore. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I absolutely plan on getting back to Mass Effect 2 in the near future, and I’m going to be playing Super Street Fighter IV here and there. It’s just a situation for me right now where my interest in games, and by extension this blog, is waning because I’m not having fun.

So I’m catching up on old Nintendo Week episodes, playing games without achievements, and just playing a game to have fun, rather than to compete with other people, or beating it just for the sake of saying I beat it.

So I pledge to refocus my efforts on making this blog fun and interesting again, and inject it with the same vigor that I had a month ago. With the forum, I’ve gotten to know a few of you and I don’t want to lose that. I’m never going to be a “big deal” on the internet, but if I can write about video games and meet cool people in the process, that’s something I refuse to lose interest in.

2.0 begins tomorrow!