I got my first request from a company to write about their game. Does that make me a professional? I’ve made about three dollars in advertising revenue since I started this blog. That’s cool, right?

Anyway, DreamForge Games asked me to write about their Facebook game Jade Monkey. I haven’t really played a lot of Facebook games before, mostly because I get kinda tired of seeing everyone spam my news feed with their high scores of asking for ingredients or lumber or whatever, but since this was a request from an actual company I decided to give it a try.

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So the other night Christina and I went to go see Toy Story 3 (bring a tissue, folks) and I was thinking about all the toys I loved as a kid. My favorites were my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures, which I collected since they first hit the market through the better part of my elementary school life.

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There’s a lot going on in the news right now that’s pretty terrible, most notably the oil spill in the gulf. It’s a horrible, unmitigated disaster with consequences that will linger over the environment for years to come. No one is playing down how big a deal this is. When I look around the internet, though, it seems a lot of people feel it’s necessary to complain that other things are being covered in the news that aren’t quite as big a deal as this.

I’m referring to things like the World Cup, the LeBron James media circus, things like that. You can argue for days over “How are those news when such horrible things are happening in the world right now?” Well, to you, they aren’t news. However, they’re still important, just in other ways.

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I want a monkey tail.

I’m completely serious.

Christina has begged me not to write this, because she thinks it’s going to make people think I’m weird, but whatever. You know what I think is weird? NOT wanting a monkey tail.

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All right. I can do this. It’s writing, just like I’ve been doing, just without video games.

So I was sitting outside in the yard today, just looking around at the surrounding houses and thinking about who lives there (note: I don’t actually know the people who live in any of those houses). I know everything there is to know about my life and what it entails but I don’t know a single thing about the people who are ten to fifteen feet away from me at any given moment.

I was thinking, the four walls erected next to the ones I occupy encase an entirely different experience, an entirely different life (or lives) being lived. I found it quite astounding the more I thought about it, because I had never really thought about it before.

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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. You’re in for a nonsense post tonight, because hey, it’s 4th of July weekend (if you’re American, if not, then it’s just The Weekend) and we were out having dinner and general merriment, and I unfortunately have to work at 6am tomorrow morning (but I’m off at 11, so I still count it as a weekend off).

Take care, be safe, and have a happy holiday!

So Square-Enix announced a North American release date for their upcoming MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.

Actually, they announced TWO North American release dates.

That’s right, the game will launch on September 30, unless you buy the Collector’s Edition of the game, in which case you get to start playing September 22 and laugh at all the peasants with their noses pressed against the window, wishing with all their tiny little hearts to be inside.

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I’m a World of Warcraft player. I’m not one of those super-hardcore, “Leave me alone because I have a raid” no-life players. I enjoy the game, and I play it quite often, but I mostly play because I enjoy exploring the world and becoming involved in the lore.

One thing that a lot of people don’t know about me, and something I consider one of my more charming character quirks, is that I am completely incapable of playing a bad guy in a video game. When I play BioWare games, I’ve literally reloaded a previous save when I accidentally get Dark Side or Renegade points. I play all games with a morality system as the super-ultra nice guy, because I get really uncomfortable even PRETENDING to be a jerk.

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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.