Hi,

My name's Richard Wakeling, or ElectricBoogaloo if you wanna go by the user name. I joined Giant Bomb in March having never really heard of the place before then - yeah, I  was under a rock - and I've basically just been using it to post up all of my reviews and the odd article in the blog. I loved Gamespot back before Jeff was fired but after that they lost credibility in my eyes so it was great to see a lot of the guys had moved over here. Giant Bomb is a refreshing take on what a professional video game site is and I love it.

But I suppose this thing is supposed to be a description of me so I may as well start by saying I've been playing games all my life. I got a NES when I was five (now 19) and the first game I ever played was the original Mario. Not a bad way to start things off. From there I got a SNES, Gameboy (and basically all the other versions upto the Advance SP), a PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PSP, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gamecube, DS and Wii. Not really much of a PC gamer due to being too lazy to keep upgrading and keeping up with the technology, but way back when on my first PC I was hooked on Wolfenstein 3D - now one of my favourite games.

Now I'm mainly just playing the PS3 and 360 while the Wii gathers dust. With the PSP Go news this week I did decide to dust off the old PSP and commit some time to it again - buying Patapon 2 in the process, which I love. Although now, a lot of the time, I'm playing just to write. You see, I'm an aspiring video game journalist; I currently write for a website and my local paper, although no monies comes out of it :( It does however give me plenty of experience and also some review copies - even if the games suck most of the time.

I'll cut this off here, time to get back to Halo 3!