Gaming with Chopsticks #2 - Why I'll Never Tire of Sequels

My latest article in my "Gaming with Chopsticks" series has been published over at Eye of the Vortex.  This time I talk about the overwhelming quantity of video game sequels that are filling our game store shelves, but at the same time, I try to find the golden lining.  Read:  Gaming with Chopsticks - Why I'll Never Tire of Sequels at Eye of the Vortex. 

Eye of the Vortex - My new column! Gaming with Chopsticks

Recently, I joined up with Eye of the Vortex as a regular writer.  I will be writing a weekly column called Gaming with Chopsticks.  If you aren't familiar with the website, Eye of the Vortex focuses on all things nerdy.  They have some great writers who cover topics ranging from RPG's, Video Games, CCG's, Boards Games, and pretty much everything else nerdy under the sun.  I highly recommend you going over to their site and giving some of their articles a read through, but of course, I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to go give my first articles, Video Game Difficulty - Do you like it Hard? a read.  Comments are always welcomed and encouraged.  If you like Video Games, you are going to like Gaming with Chopsticks!

Joining Eye of the Vortex - Staff Writer Extraordinaire

If I didn’t have enough on my plate already, I decided to be totally crazy and become a new staff writer for Eye of the Vortex. Eye of the Vortex is an awesome site. I’ve been reading it periodically on and off (reading when I can at work and the site isn’t blocked, not reading when it isn’t…). The site is awesome because it pretty much collects all of the cool stuff I like in the world and puts it all into the same place. I find it pretty hard to believe that I hadn’t joined their forums before, considering how big of a troll I am on so many other boards (but you probably already know that my good readers).

So, what will I be doing for Eye of the Vortex?? One might ask that question. One might assume that since I write a lot about pen and paper RPG’s here on this blog that I might be doing the same thing over there, but, if you thought that, you would be horribly, horribly wrong. I think I pretty much have the RPG front covered here and I haven’t really written much about my other hobby too much, unless I’m talking about it within the context of RPG’s.

This other hobby, you might ask, is video games.

I am a huge gamer. Video games are where I got my start. Remember, I’m a youngin. So, video games were my intro drug into the entire world of RPG’s, CCG’s, War Games, etc. So, when I heard that Eye of the Vortex was looking for somebody to write about video games, I jumped at the chance. If, for nothing else, the folks that write over there, and read the Eye of the Vortex would probably appreciate my yearly wrap-up of Tokyo Game Show a whole lot more than most of the folks here, who probably aren’t too interested in what games happen to be coming out in Japan and the status of next gen console gaming.

So, as of this week, I’m now a member of the staff over there. I still haven’t made my first post yet, but you can bet that when I do, I’ll make some kind of post about it here as well. Give it a read through and check it out, if you are so inclined.