In case you haven't been hanging around the IGN webpage for the last week or so, you may be surprised to find out that we have a new gaming channel over on Youtube!

I like to think of it as the START of something new & refreshing (tee-hee, see what I did there?)

Just joining the line-up and debuting today is my new show MIX'D REVIEWS! A show that takes the score that IGN and other gaming companies hand out to various titles and averages them out for you, saving you time and headaches trying to work all that math out for yourself (don't be insulted. I'm an art major - I don't do math either).

On a personal note, I'm LOVING the new look. While I think Strategize and Weekly Wood are great, there's just something about this that seems a bit more...bright & shiny.

Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do & if you have the time, hunt down the IGN video team and give them some props for putting it all together.

I have been keeping a secret for so very, very long. A secret that literally been killing me to keep. KILLING ME.

For around 1/2 a year now (possibly a full year?) I have been keeping the secret that BioWare has included my likeness (scanned face) and voice for the character Diana Allers in Mass Effect 3.

Now that the news has been made public, I can finally do this: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL      YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me say two non-freakout things here:

1.) Voice actors deserve some serious respect. THAT SH*& IS HARD WORK! I have a minor role and even after the end of a full day of voiceover, I was exhausted. I had about 2 full days. Imagine that for an entire full-length BioWare game with hundreds of dialogue options that one needs to record. And that isn't even taking into account the pace, changes, pronunciations that one has to learn of planets and items and races that, for all intents and purposes, aren't "real" in a literal sense, and often responding and acting to something or someone that isn't even there (it's you, a microphone and a sound booth - that's it).

So, if anyone ever asks me, "what is the one thing you learned and walked away with from this experience?" My response would be: To give voice actors the proper respect and acknowledgment that they're due because  they work hard and are beyond talented!

2.) I would just like to send out a ginormous "THANK YOU" to BioWare, The Mass Effect team, Casey Hudson, the Doctors, and everyone at the company for including me in Mass Effect 3 and letting me become part of the team. It really, really, REALLY is a major dream come true! not only to just be a character in a game but to be in a game made by Bioware, a company that I insanely admire and enjoy and to be included in Mass Effect one of the most epic Space action-RPG series of this console generation! From a Bioware fan girl perspective, I can't come even close to expressing how much this means to me.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

I hope I did a good job, have made everyone proud and I truly hope that the Mass Effect fans out there enjoy and approve of what I've done. Thanks again to everyone for their congratulations & well-wishings! I'm truly honored.

PS: I will NOT be reviewing or giving an "official score" for Mass Effect 3 for either IGN or G4TV. I SHALL, as a gamer, have my own personal opinions and look forward to bringing you general news about the Bioware title - but again: I WILL NOT BE REVIEWING THE GAME FOR IGN OR G4.

Alrighty folks!

For the final stop on a series of shoots I'm doing, I'll be parking it overnight in San Fran tomorow (Wend. 14th) to drop some phat beatz at Vessel nightclub starting at 11:00pm in an attempt to see what it's like to be a DJ for a living.

Wanna' come watch?

If you're over 21, stop on by and catch my "set" (hahaha- I love my new insider DJ knowledge ) Seriously though, I've been practicing hard on my Traktor S2 and have picked out quite a fantabulousawesometatstical line-up & would love to see you there!

(and then, you should stick around for the pros - because they are ridonkulously good).

For more details, hit up the website After The Jump!

Wired.com just revealed in an interview with Nintendo's Miyamoto that he is 'retiring' his position in order to take on smaller more intimate game designers and development within the company.

"Inside our office, I’ve been recently declaring, ‘I’m going to retire, I’m going to retire,’” Miyamoto said through his interpreter. “I’m not saying that I’m going to retire from game development altogether. What I mean by retiring is, retiring from my current position."

"What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself,” Miyamoto said. “Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small.”

For the entire article, jump over to Wired.com