If you've been wondering why I've been lax with this whole blog over the past few weeks and months, it can be explained with the words "writer's block." I've been struggling to write about the many topics that have been swirling in my head for a while now and unlike my early days of blogging here at Giant Bomb, I'm attempting to create some sort of standard of quality to a point. Combine that with a busy summer, a pinch of real life, and a lack of time spent playing video games, there's been little for me to actually blog about. Hopefully with the summer season ending and the busy gaming season beginning, there's hope that I can start providing the community with something... anything.

And maybe the end of 2011 will make up for a pretty lackluster lineup of games I believe we had throughout 2011 as a whole. Maybe the past few years have spoiled me, but this year has been a disappointment. The games that interest me have been few and far between and all the games I'm looking forward to in the near future (Skyward Sword, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands 2) are still weeks, months, and maybe years away respectively. I guess I had so much fun with last year's games that I'm suffering from gaming fatigue or indifference to new things... I'm not sure. Maybe it's because the Wii decided to take a long sabbatical or the bad economy finally catching up to us, but 2011 kinda sucks at this time and is ruining the blog I built with my bare hands.

Or maybe I'm just fucking lazy.

Oh, and I guess it's becoming common knowledge, but Mento gets my vote for rookie of the year in the Giant Bombosphere. Go read his stuff if you haven't already.

Well that's a small load off my chest. Now Sweep won't ban me... tonight.