I believe it's pretty standard to start off these blogs with an introduction so that's what I'm going to do along with explaining my purpose for blogging now. First of all, my name is Devin but I'd prefer it if you all called me Ratatoskr on here. I don't mind telling you all my name but, the way I see it, it's easier if we just stick with some standards here and since not everyone will read this and know my name... It just makes life easier. I am a 19 year old male and am currently a student at the University of Montana - Missoula studying Creative Writing. My hope is that, in the future, I will be able to sell the book trilogy that I am working on called Angarin. I can't give you any specific details on it other than to say that it is a fantasy/sci-fi series that, I believe, takes the best from both genres without plummeting into either stereotype. I know from previous experience that everyone asks where my name came from. Ratatoskr is actually a very fitting name for this blog. It is the name of a character in Norse mythology who travels up and down the world tree, yggdrasil, to spread news and gossip to the different planes. I thought that, since this will be primarily a news blog, it worked well since I will be spreading news from all across the gaming world directly to you. And on to my purpose. In case you haven't already picked up on it, I want this to be a news blog for the video game world. Along with that, I have a few other projects in mind to share with you all throughout the life span of this blog but you will find those out in time. Hopefully you will enjoy them. As for the specific kind of news itself, I regularly surf plenty of different websites including, Gamespot, IGN, publisher/developer websites, video game websites, as well as receiving subscriptions from a variety of magazines including EGM and GameInformer. Since these mediums all receive different information, I thought that I could centralize the important information here for my readers. Now obviously this blog isn't going to cover everything in the video game industry. Too much happens daily and there is simply too little time to regurgitate it all here. So I will mostly cover specific games that you all care about. One genre that I will not be covering here are sports games. It's not that I have anything against sports gamers, I simply don't personally enjoy the genre. My personal preference is towards RPG's (Japanese or Western) but I also play action/adventure games, shooters (third and first person), the occasional MMO, puzzle games, some fighters and several others as well. Along with video game news, I want to write an in-depth review each and every time I finish a game. I play all different kinds of games, new and old, but hopefully they will help you out with that game you've always been curious about. Well, I think that's enough for now. Thank you for reading this and I hope that this blog will be an important stop for you in the future. Peace my friends!