It is an unmitigated pleasure to drop a new offsite link on you today. The folks over at Gamers with Jobs were kind enough to ask if I’d be interested in writing with them. If you don’t dig games writing as much as I do, a decent analogy would be if one of your favorite bands asked you to join them on stage for a jam session. Not like, top-40s band. But not local, either. Something with regional appeal.

My first post with them went up today, detailing the on again/off again love affair I’ve had with console and PC gaming. Anyone who read the site last year will know of my tech troubles and the long stretch of time when I was writing about MMOs more than playing them but … this is written all fancy-like.

The PC became a workhorse, nothing more than my portal to work or whatever virtual world I was inhabiting at the time. Early last year, I wasn’t even really playing MMOs. I was writing about them, thinking about them, but my game time was spent with my hands wrapped firmly around a controller. At my lowest point I actually repurchased Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to play on the 360, because my PC just couldn’t handle the load Tamriel represented.

I enjoyed it, but I felt shamed. My sad old gaming rig had done so much for me, and I was leaving it to rot. Many long months passed, seasons changed, and the only reason I sat down to my PC was to put in few hours of work. For every decision there are consequences, and every week I spent ignoring my roots another mark was made on my karmic tally stick.

This kind of dude-ed up writing, with imagery and stuff, is the way I write in my head. It’s a lot of fun to see it on screen. Thanks for the opportunity, guys.