What's All This Battlemouth Malarkey Then?

As some may have noticed, it's been a bit quiet on my site recently. Between holidays, reading the Wheel of Time series, and gaming, I haven't really been up to updating the site with anything. I also seem to have hit a spot somewhere between "can't be arsed" and "a dry spell" with doing anything graphical, so that hasn't helped here either.

One thing I have been doing though is thinking over ideas for stories and articles on various things, and the best way I could present them. I could have put them on here, but I wasn't really sure how they fit with my general site theme (if, in fact, I actually have one).

A week or so ago, Mike from Battlemouth put a call out for new contributors for his site. As I had been interacting (read: trash talking) with a few of the Battlemouth guys for a while on Twitter, and had contributed a guest game review in the past, I indicated my interest and promptly sent off an article on the social inadequacy of Sony's PS3 console. Skip forward to now, and I have several articles up on Battlemouth and have been welcomed into the team.

I'm quite enthusiatic about this opportunity, and look forward to contributing to Battlemouth. It's not that I have any pretensions about my writing ability, but more about being a member of a like-minded community developing a quality magazine-style site. I certainly feel that Battlemouth is the best place for the articles I'm thinking of, and I hope the rest of the team feel the same way.

I will be posting links (with some text) to my Battlemouth articles on this site for the foreseeable future, but this may change if I think it doesn't feel right. I also hope to get back into the fold of posting my more regular stuff (photos, drawings, etc.) so this site stays alive.

Going forward, please feel free to offer any suggestions or ideas for changes in this site, or articles for Battlemouth.

Battlemouth articles to date:

• 30% of Brutal Legend... A Guest Review!
• Dragon Age: Origins - An Epic Review for an Epic Game (contribution)
• PS3's Social Inadequacy

Steel Requiem

He sits alone in the darkness, grieving for those who are lost.
The tears once flowing, now spent and replaced by burning, dry eyes.
His friends and colleagues are gone, his life's love torn away.

His garb was a symbol of hope to all, he now finds it worthless.
His suit scarred by the storms, his cape taken to shroud his beloved.
With all his strength, he could not defeat his enemy.
With all his speed, he could not outrace the inevitable.
All of his power could not help him prevail.

Broken by an unconquerable foe, his faith eroded.
Overpowered at the end by human nature.
He sits alone in the darkness, this grieving man of steel.