Death of a Geekman

I know I promised this sooner, but we've had a lot of great user content over the past few weeks and I wanted to make sure that the good stuff got its due. Join me for some ruminations on the gaming year that was, as well as my selection for 2008's Game of the Year. SPOILER:  This about sums it up

In my last column of 2008, I made a public declaration that I was going to use John Farrels’ excellent stats tracking facility to actually try and make a concrete, measurable effort to play my favourite games more, try out more of my unplayed games and buy less games. Having made this public declaration, it struck me that I could actually make the whole thing a public enterprise - set myself some goals for the year and keep regular updates on my progress, thereby giving myself some real incentive to try...