I'm still relatively new to the whole video game blogging scene, I've had a gamespot account for 6 months or so and I used it quite regularly, however as the website has seemingly dissolved in front of my eyes over the last month I've decided to follow the apparant majority of the people from GS that have chosen to sign up to Giantbomb.

This site is confusing the hell out of me but I'm slowly getting to grips with it, I think. I'm a bit worried that there doesn't seem to be a spell check facility on here, my complete lack of spelling ability will no doubt be highlighted very quickly.

After writing quite a few introductions on previous GS boards etc I've opted for only a brief intro until I can muster the energy to write more...

My name's John, I'm a 26 year old former English Lit student (which makes my poor spelling and grammer seem even more spectacular!) that has decided to take a career u-turn and become a telecomms engineer. I'm halfway through an apprenticeship with a pretty big UK broadcasting/public safety/any-other-pies-that-they-can-get-their-fingers-into company; the pay is ok and I don't really have to do much (apart from making tea) so at the moment I'm pretty content with a working life of mediocrity and enough money to pay for video games.

I own an Xbox 360 and a DS, I generally only use the DS when I'm away studying and the majority of my gaming time is spent on the Xbox. During my time at University I worked for a number of music shops so I've developed a bit of an indie snobbish thing that I'm slowly trying to iron out of my system. Here's a brief breakdown of the kind of things that I'm into...

Xbox games that I'm currently enjoying...
Fallout 3
GTA IV
Call of Duty (2 onwards)
Fable 2
Beautiful Katamari
Bioshock
Puzzle Quest

Xbox games that I intend to play soon (either new releases or just games that I've not got around to playing yet)...
Eternal Sonata
Dead Space
Assassin's Creed 2
Ghostbusters
Street Fighter IV (I own it, I'm just rubbish at it and intend/hope that the purchase of a fight pad will improve my skills a bit)
Modern Warfare 2
The old Cthulu game on the original Xbox

Xbox games that I own and believe require justification for owning...
Lips (erm... this was part of my plan to push my girlfriend into loving the xbox as much as I do)
Hellboy (I love comics, I love Hellboy, I love video games, this should have been the best thing in the world. It isn't)

DS Games that keep me happy on trains
Chrono Trigger (I feel ashamed that I've only recently discovered this amazing game)
Tetris
Broken Sword
Puzzle Quest
Dragon Quest IV and V
Final Fantasy IV

Music
The Decemberists
Arab Strap
The Mountain Goats
The Magnetic Fields
Mogwai
Neil Young
The Flaming Lips
Devo
Elbow
The Clash
Tom Waits