Lifestyles

So here is my first blog as a gay gamer, here to be the voice of gay gamers and people who love gays and gaming.

I'm pretty much a two year old when it comes to my characters in games. They are my toys. Mine alone. No one shall touch them. NO ONE!

One of my fondest gaming memories is playing Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle by Lucas Arts. It certainly wasn't the first game I'd ever played, but it was the first I played on a PC.

My three year old son has been able to operate all of the functions on my husband's Ipod Touch since before he could walk, however, the mouse for our laptop, netbook and computer all confuse him.

Over the past few months I've come to loathe any and all Facebook games.

Gaming Peripherals – How do you play?
In the world of gaming our computers are everything, much like our car on the road. When it comes to the computer, we like ‘em fast, tough, efficient and top of the line. We’ve all got gamer-friends that boast the best the industry has to offer; ultra-fast hard drives that scream like a Formula 1 racecars, over-clocked processors pumping out more juice than the competition, RAM larger than your grandmother’s Cadillac trunk space, and graphics cards that would make your brain explode if you could process every frame they punched out. While the guts of our computers are vital to every gamer’s success, the peripherals we use can be just as important. You spent all that dough on the computer; don’t you want to feel cool while you use it too?

Look, I get it - no one likes to have their stuff stolen. This is why Ubisoft elected to require that your PC contacts the Ubi mothership every time you fire up Assassin's Creed 2 - to make sure that you are who you are supposed to be and that your copy of the game has been bought and paid for in a legitimate manner.

What would you like to see in an MMO?
Over the last 10 years, the world has seen a new market spring to life in the gaming community. MMOs have become a multibillion dollar industry in a short amount of time and only stands to grow as the world’s gaming population continues to thrive and bring new players into the fold. With revenues projected to surpass the 14 billion dollar mark by 2012, new and old production studios and game developers are eager to get their share of the market where time really does equal money. Every gamer has the things they like and dislike about each game they play, but few games every capture everything well enough at launch to make a player go nuts. New and old come into the mix with every title released, but what ideas should stick and what new ones do I think we might we see in the next few years?

I've been gaming in various formats for the majority of my life, and for a good portion of that time I had all the focus any gamer could ask for to accomplish the myriad of goals set before me. This has drastically changed in the last several years, specifically, since I had my first baby. My life has now become a series of miniscule blocks of time where I try to squeeze in tasks amongst full time baby/toddler care...

Burnout like other disgusting bodily functions that will remain nameless here, happens!