Welcome!

This is it. This blog will exist as long as I need it to practice my writing (essentially forever) and I will post on it multiple times a week. I will not stop writing for a month and delete this blog, starting over yet again.

Sorry about that. I'm sure most blogs don't start with such a statement but I felt it necessary to drive the point home in my head. See, this is probably the fifth or sixth time I've done this blog. Each time, I fall out of habit and stop writing, causing me to return to it later with a nagging feeling in my head about the absence. That feeling usually leads to me deleting it and starting over. That WILL NOT happen again.

Now that that's out of the way, welcome to my blog! As you've probably already guessed from the name, this is a blog about gaming, my greatest passion. Nothing else can bring a smile to my face, fill my body with excitement and enjoyment, and sometimes even move me deeply like a video game can. Having been a gamer since I was about 4 or 5, I've been playing them constantly ever since, my main hobby and my passion.

To be a little more specific, this is a blog for me to practice writing about games. Why would I need to do such a thing, you may ask? Well, there is one job in the world that fills me with envy every time I think about it. In this job, a person gets to play all the games they could want and get to talk about them constantly. Of course, this job is a video game journalist. As a kid, I read gaming magazines religiously and followed every bit of gaming news I could. As I matured, I started to delve deeper into the actual articles, trying to find out what these men and women were really writing about.

I know what you may be thinking. Oh, great, another kid who loves to slack off and play games and wants to do it for a living, getting free stuff while sitting on his ass. I am not that person. I truly understand the challenges (like low pay and no job security) that game journalists must face and none of that bothers me; it still sounds like the perfect job for me.

So I'm here to try and crack that code, the code that determines what makes a video game journalist successful. My name is Justin Davis and I'm a 21 year old college student sitting at home for the summer, trying to determine what major to declare for my third year of college. Nothing in this world inspires more passion from me than video games so I have to at least give this a shot. Hop on for the ride and maybe you and I can find out a few things about the gaming industry we didn't know before!