Today is a monumental today. As of today, PK Bloggin’! will cease to exist.

Well, kinda. It’s going to cease to exist in its current form.

As of today, July 5th 2010, PK Bloggin’! is no longer a video game blog. I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the past few days, and honestly, I think it’s a good decision for me and for the blog itself.

To be honest, I am not nearly as into video games as I used to be. Right now I’m 26 years old, planning on getting married in about two months, and I work a full-time job. I just don’t have the TIME to be as into games as I used to. Not even just that, but reading Kotaku and its commenters I find that I’m pretty disconnected from what today’s gaming culture has evolved into. Not that that means that there’s anything wrong with today’s games or even anything wrong with me, I’m just in a different place than I was a few years ago.

It’s not really hard to see that I haven’t been enjoying writing as much as I did before. Honestly, for the past couple of weeks it’s felt more like a chore than anything else. I was pigeonholing myself as a writer, I was forcing it, and as a result the blog suffered and I was no longer enjoying what I was doing.

But no longer!

I don’t say this with any kind of conceit or anything but my mind works differently from everyone else’s. When I’m out, I’m watching everything, taking everything in, internalizing it and analyzing it. I think about EVERYTHING. I have a 28 minute walk home from work every day and you would not BELIEVE the amount of things that go through my mind. Not only that, but while I’m AT work I’m in a small room by myself counting money for eight hours. My mind has a lot of time to work.

I’m an observer. I can see the most mundane, everyday thing and analyze it to some weird level that even weirds ME out sometimes. Sometimes I can hear two people talking at the mall and I go over the things they say to each other and the inflection in their voices and try to think about what kind of relationship they have. My mind is always working, always thinking.

That’s not to say that PK Bloggin’! (yes I’m keeping the name. They layout is probably gonna change though) is going to become some crazy philosophical exercise in social commentary. Nor is it going to become Joe’s LiveJournal. I’m a writer, and PK Bloggin’! is going to be where I write the things that I write. I’m still going to write about video games and stuff, but it’s not going to be my sole focus anymore. Looking back on it now, I’m not sure how I ever reached the conclusion that doing such was a good idea that I could sustain for more than six months.

Today after finally deciding to go through with this, I was more excited to write than I have been since I first started doing this. I started carrying a pocket sized notepad with me to jot down ideas as they come to me, and I’ve already got about two weeks worth of topics.

I realize that this may alienate some of you, and for that I am sincerely sorry. I’ve managed to meet a handful of really cool and interesting people since this kicked off and they’ve been what’s kept me going even when I didn’t want to. However, I hope those of you that I’ve bonded with over a mutual admiration for electronic gaming can stick around, read my nonsensical musings, and we can get to know each other on a deeper level. Because THAT doesn’t sound creepy.

And hey, I’m going to be around on the forums more. You should be too.

So starting tomorrow, things are going to be different. Will they be better from your perspective? That remains to be seen. From where I’m sitting, though, it’s going to make all the difference in the world.

Thanks for reading for the past six months, and I hope you’ll continue to do so for many, many more.