MMOtaku Lives On In The MMOsh Pit

While thinking about what to write in this initial posting for my personal gaming blog The MMOsh Pit, I stumbled upon a tweet from fellow former b5media blogger Jason Bean that said, "It's starting to sink in that I don't 'HAVE' to write any blog posts tonight. Weird! I've been doing that for the last 5 years."

I think I'm just one of the many bloggers out there that can truly say, "I know exactly how you feel, Jason."

Prior to the termination of my contract with b5media, I was handling the network's MMOtaku, a blog that focused on massively multiplayer online role-playing games, and I had been doing that for almost three years.

Now, faced with the reality that MMOtaku is beyond my reach, I need to muster the strength to continue blogging about one of the most important things in my life right now—MMORPGs.

Say wut? 'Nuff said. It's fodder for another blog post I've been itching to write about.



Today, I say goodbye to b5media and MMOtaku. It was a good run, and I intend to continue it on The MMOsh Pit, which will be similar in tone to articles in my former blog, but unfettered from censorship aside from my own.

So let this posting be a shout out to loyal viewers of MMOtaku: "I'M ALIVE!"

Special mention goes to the following people:

Mike Leaño, for bringing me into the professional blogging world. In 2007, Mike, then Technology Channel Editor of b5media, asked me to blog for the network via MMOtaku. I owe him, big time!

Kevin Codamon, online platforms manager of Philippines-based online games publisher Level Up! Games, for giving me a wider perspective of blogging as a profession.

Carlo Ople, global digital marketing manager of Friendster, for continuing to inspire me with deeds if not in words to write and blog about the things dearest to my heart. Go check out his blogs—Waukster, New Media Philippines, Pinoy Food Critic and Juan Country—to know what I mean.

The sentiments go out to Mon Macutay, head of MMORPG marketing at Level Up! Games.

PJ Punla, friend and blogger who was the first to associate the name MMOtaku to Joel Tan. I consider her my conscience. Without her reading my every post and giving valuable feedback, I'm sure I won't be as effective a storyteller as I am now.

And Robert Sanchez, who remains instrumental in the formation of my opinions about some of the hottest massively multiplayer online games in the market today. I can always count on Robert to spar with me, intellectually, over issues hounding most MMO titles.