I am told that I am in the new PCGamer, so it must be true. I only recently resubscribed, so I don’t have it yet. I trust that my readers are not lying to me, so next time I am at a newsstand, I’ll pick it up. I am the new writer of the recently revived strategy column (which I’ve called Tactical Advantage – thanks BD for helping with the brainstorming there) and my review of Disciples III should be in there somewhere.

PCGamer is the last of the American PC game focused magazines. I have been published in all of them, except PC Accelerator which closed up when I still thought I had a real future in a real career. So a long time ago.

How did it happen? I was approached by Evan Lahti at E3 to write the strategy column, Dan Stapleton knew I wanted to write some reviews, and Logan Decker has sent a couple of nice emails. The magazine has gone through a lot of changes in the last couple of years, including yanking the columns altogether (a stupid idea) and then bringing them back with the return of Desslock’s RPG column and Andy Mahood’s sim column (a smart idea). The strategy column was next to come, and I suppose I don’t suck.

Thought it’s been a little hard to adjust to some things, like the magazine’s insistence on puns in the headlines (Oh, how I hate forced puns), I am happy to be back in print. Once I read the Disciples 3 review and the first Tactical Advantage in the wild, I’ll have some comments here. Until I see them, they aren’t quite real.

It’s a little humbling to remember when this blog was “Portico” on blogspot, getting 25 to 50 hits a day, mostly people doing random Google searches. The help of good friends and good editors has led to 2010 being a year of great professional success. May those blessings trickle down to my readers and listeners.