Hi everyone! It's been too long!
Kind of stumbled back into the forums from a random Google search today -- like everyone else, I miss it! Good to hear that some of y'all are doing just fine. As for me, I finished my undergrad last year (to give some *crazy* perspective, I was still in 8th grade when I first registered here in 2002) and just got my foot in the door for games writing this summer as an intern at GamesBeat. It's small-ish compared to the IGNs of the internet (Dan Shoe from EGM/1UP is our EIC), and crazy busy, but I love it.
We're doing our GOTY voting now, and man, 2012's got a ton of great games. I'm still trying to catch-up with all the big fall releases... but here's my top five:
1) The Walking Dead
2) Journey
3) Tokyo Jungle
4) DayZ
5) Spec Ops: The Line
And I still have XCOM, Mark of the Ninja, Dishonored, Sleeping Dogs, Halo 4, the entire Mass Effect series (I've been playing ME1 on/off for two years now...), and a bunch of indie games to play. Phew. But yeah, life's been good. I'll definitely try to check in whenever I can.