Acid for Blood

I left my job at Xfire last month to work at a company that I couldn’t speak of until today. It was my first day on the job as a Community Manager for Guild Wars. How cool is it that I’ve been writing about the game as a player and now I’m working at ArenaNet? […]

My employer is dispatching me to the E for All Expo in Los Angeles from 20th - 21st October. If you’re at the con, feel free to stop by the booth.
I will be arriving on 19th October in time to attend the Video Games Live concert, though I won’t actually be working on the 19th.
I’m […]

I’m going to be busy for a while, so this blog won’t be as active. That’s not precisely where the awesome comes in though. The awesome bit is that I have recently been hired to do something exciting and new and game-related. A couple of weeks ago, I resigned from my somewhat dull job at […]

Danc from Lost Garden writes about why he’s never going back to working in the games industry:
It began with a common enough tale in the game industry. The project I had worked on for the previous two years was canceled. After all those 80 hour weeks, fueled by a feverish passion to build something marvelous, […]

I went to GameStop last night. Objective: move my reservation for Killer 7 to some other game. Reason: I want to read some reviews for Killer 7 before purchasing it. The game looks cool and all, but I’ve been reading previews of its control system which are slightly unfavourable. I am still interested in it, […]

When I worked at the game store, I once had had a nice conversation with a boy about Metroid games. He was cute in a way that only a pre-pubescent, blonde-haired, nerdy game geek kid taking Tae Kwon Do lessons (there’s a TKD school down the hall from the store) can be cute. He was […]

At my particular GameStop, we had some regular customers from the cinema down the hall, including a former employee. When they take their breaks, then come down to the store and chat with us. All of them are fairly cool and very pleasant to talk to. They certainly know their games, that’s for sure. They […]

In the first of several installments, I will recount some of the more memorable moments during my time working in video game retail. Since the events are unrelated, I won’t be posting them in any sort of continuity order.
Like many retail workers, I was only a part-time employee. I have an office job, so I […]

I have no time to play video games. It’s horrible. I have too many interests and priorities to be spending them playing games. And yet, I buy loads of them, and the backlog pile continues to rise.
I worked an 8-hour shift today at The G. This is unusual as they generally give me short shifts, […]

We were hurting for subs and reserves today at the store, so I pre-ordered Killer 7. Having read up on it recently, I’m quite intrigued by the game. Considering the fact that I do tend to like so-called “arty” films, I’m interested in a game that people are calling the very “first video game art […]