Hello everyone, my name is Dallas and I'm new here on GiantBomb. A few things about me; I'm 34 years old, have been a gamer for 31 of those years, I am a recovering MMO addict, I have a taste for good micro-brewed beer and a good smoking pipe. I am in the process of quitting smoking, cigarettes, not my pipe since I don't inhale it, and it royally sucks. I am an off and on freelance writer and have had articles published by various websites around the web, mostly game reviews. You can expect this blog to be updated on a regular basis and for me to be an active member of your community, as much as my free-time allows. Now that all of that business is out of the way, let me get to what's going on with me lately.

I'm getting a new PS3 tomorrow and I'm strongly considering picking up Dark Souls. Now, I never played Demon Souls. Quite frankly, because hearing about how difficult it was put me off. I stayed on the edge of buying it several times but some unknown force of the gaming universe kept me from clicking that buy button. I find myself stepping up to that same edge again here with Dark Souls. After watching the quick look here on GB, I'm 99% sure I'm going to take the leap. The game looks like a great challenge but not unfairly so plus it just looks fun in a masochistic way that's hard to resist for some reason.

I picked up RAGE for the PC on the 4th, which also happens to be my birthday. I thought, happy birthday to me until I got home and began trying to play it. Until that point, I was fairly unaware of any trouble with the PC version. Now I know. I have spent most of my time with the game not playing it but installing the correct drivers and searching the various forums out there for solutions to my issues. My PC's hardware is not the issue either as my rig is more than capable of running RAGE very well. To say that I am most disappointed in these kinds of problems out of an id game is an understatement. Now, it sits on my shelf which is where it will stay. It's pissed me off to the point that I down-right refuse to play the PC version. I'm going to pick it up again when there's a price drop for the PS3 version.