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No longer with Dignews

After nearly a decade of being a professional videogame reviewer and/or Web site editor, beginning with SonyWeb.com (now defunct) and extending to Dignews.com, I am now a bit of a free agent in the videogame journalism field. My tenure at Dignews.com ended earlier this month.

What that means is this: my blog, VideogameVagabond.com, is now the best and only place to locate my journalistic ramblings on the videogame world. I’ll get to review only what I want to review, and perhaps I can refuel my passion for videogames due to this new focus.

Now, the parting of the ways was professional if not exactly a dance through a fantasy wonderland, but contrary to fictional reports, it had nothing to do with drug rehab on anyone’s part; I’ve always lived a straight-edged life. In fact, as a newspaper journalist, I’ve covered several anti-meth presentations. The strongest thing I’ve ever imbibed is a glass of champagne… and that, only a handful of times in my entire life.

No, the truth is, after over 800 reviews over the past 9-10 years, I was just burned out by the pace I had to keep up with. Dignews is in great hands, even without my involvement. And hopefully I’ll recapture that early enthusiasm by restricting my effort to my personal blog, here.

Oblivion gets first-ever GOTY honors at DigNews.com

I’m happy to say I was part of the decision-making in naming 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks’ Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as DigNews.com’s first-ever Game of the Year winner. Our site’s never named a game of the year before, and there’s no guarantee we will again, but Oblivion is a game that’s made a huge next-gen impact.

There’s a lot of freedom in the game to do whatever you want to, from farming to setting up a retail business to – probably – printing up professional business cards for your fellow adventurers. Well, maybe not quite, but you get the idea.

It’s a game that has turned a lot of people who don’t normally play videogames into addicts. That’s rare, and that’s why we game this first-of-its-kind honor to the game. What fun!