On April 20, 2008, my GameSpot Total Access subscription will expire. I won't be renewing it.

GameSpot has been one of my favorite and most-visited sites for a few years now. The strongest part of the site is the community (or so I'm told), but what drew me to the site were all of the incredibly interesting personalities that were behind it: Greg Kasavin, Alex Navarro, Rich Gallup, Jeff Gerstmann, Brad Shoemaker, Carrie Gouskos, Brian Ekberg, Bob Colayco, Jason Ocampo, Justin Calvert, Tor Thorsen...

The vast majority of the names that I just mentioned are now no longer with the site, and the ones who are, I can't expect will be there much longer. When Greg, Bob, Carrie, and Rich left, gradually over the course of a year, it was easy to take. Turnover is natural, and when long-established personalities leave, new ones always spring up. But since late November, it hasn't been turnover - it's been an exodus. And as my reason for staying here has left - it's time for me to stop spending my money here.

To Kevin VanOrd and Don Francis, two wonderfully awesome people I had the privilege of meeting during the Brain Bust tournament, I really wish I had gotten the chance to enjoy your contributions to the site. I wish you many fans to take my place.

Tonight, I'm leaving all of the unions I am a member of. The only one I was ever really involved with is the Anthro Lounge Union - SonicHomeboy has got a good thing going over there, and I wish him and everyone else there the best of luck in keeping it going.

GameSpot will always be something special to me - but the GameSpot in my memory, not the one on the internet. I hope something can take its place... I hope eventually it can be what it was again. But not today. So, until that day... my game is over, and I'm out of continues.