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.

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Hey all. My mom is coming into town for a few days from the distant land of Florida. I haven’t seen my mom for two years so I’m pretty excited. All you teenagers who think it’s not cool to hang out with your parents, enjoy it, because some day you might live in different states!

To keep you entertained in the meantime, I present to you the YouTube sensation Guile’s theme goes with everything.

Hey all, just a reminder that I’ll be hanging out in the IRC channel tomorrow during Nintendo’s press conference if you want to hang out and discuss what they’re going to be showing off. With the Nintendo 3DS set to be shown tomorrow, it’s going to be an exciting time!

The channel is #pkbloggin and is on the DarkMyst server. If you’re having any trouble connecting, send me an email at joe@pkbloggin.net and I’ll do my best to guide you through it. Once the conference starts, though, I’m going to be focused on that, so be there early!

The conference is scheduled for tomorrow at 9am pacific/12 noon eastern. I’ll be there early and I’ll be hanging out after too. See you there!

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.)

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Hey we have a forum now! Woo! I’ve been getting a lot more “conversation” comments on the blog posts, and a lot of you have even been talking to each other in the comments. I have the Facebook page, and I have the Twitter, but I realized that if I really wanted to build a community, I’d need a forum. And now I have one! Hooray!

Enjoy, and I’ll see you around the boards!

Big surprise revealed! We have merchandise now!

We hope you enjoy them! Spread the word!

Aside from being a great Weird Al song, the headline applies to our evening so far. Somehow, we’ve gotten a virus on our computer. It doesn’t seem to be malicious, but Christina’s been wrestling with it for the past few hours and it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to get the podcast done tonight. I’ll post a special weekend article to make up for it, which will cover what the podcast was SUPPOSED to be about, and we’ll have Big Surprise 2 ready on Monday!

I hate missing a podcast, but circumstances are against me tonight. Our sincerest apologies.

The reason PK Bloggin’! exists is because I love video games. I want PK Bloggin’! to be a celebration of video games and gaming culture. I love what video games are and I love what they do. One of the things they do is bring people together, and with that I’m introducing PK Bloggin’! Multiplayer Game Nights.

I’m really looking for feedback on this, so please, don’t be shy. Let me know your thoughts in the comments, on the PK Bloggin’! Facebook page, through my Twitter, or email me. I think this would be cool to do one night a week, so let me know and let’s make it happen!

Hello internet, it’s your friendly neighborhood Christina here, stopping in to say hello. You may notice the site looks a little different. Well, that’s because I’m awesome. We’ve finally hooked up with ProjectWonderful to let you other lovely game site owners promote your stuff right here on PK Bloggin’! So listen to the Hint Man (go play Earthbound already if you don’t understand the blank boxes, seriously.) and advertise with us! Maybe we’ll advertise on your site too! Share and share alike, I always say. Or do I? Who knows.

I… guess that’s all from me, really. I promise I’ll write something that’s an actual article soon. And hey… While I’ve got your attention, don’t forget Lunar: Silver Star Harmony comes out in just 6 short days!!! The anticipation, it hurts us. *cough* Okay, thanks for your time, you may go about your business.

So I completely forgot, but two days ago was my blog’s one month anniversary. Woo! I’m not going to celebrate every thirty days but I’m pretty stoked to have passed this first milestone.

Thanks for sticking around for this first month. Believe me, I’m just getting started!