Bitmob staff: 2011 holidays and New Year's update

We here at Bitmob love the holidays. We get to give our fingers a break from typing, which gives us a little extra endurance to play more games. Around this time, we also make promises to ourselves for the new year that we know we won't be able to keep. Here's a peek at what we've been up to lately and what some of us would like to accomplish in 2012:

	Dan "Shoe" Hsu Co-Founder/Editor Shoe is addicted to to-do lists, and he has trouble saying no -- a bad combination when it comes to certain games. He's closing in on 150 hours in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, and he's literally not even halfway done with the main quest! Looks like he won't be playing anything else for the first half of 2012....

	Jay Henningsen Managing Editor Jay resolves to make it to E3 this year, and he's more than willing to help a few Bitmob staff members kick the oxygen habit to ensure he gets a spot. He'd also like to plant a vegetable garden.
	Rob Savillo Senior Editor Rob is realizing that to enjoy other games, he needs to break developer From Software's spell. So after 165 hours spread over two and a half playthroughs, Rob resolves to stop playing Dark Souls...for a while.
	Layton Shumway Community Manager Layton resolves to write more music, actually play some of those PC games he buys, and finally create the Dungeons & Dragons campaign of his dreams. Side note: His dreams are...not kind to player characters.
	Eduardo Moutinho Editor Eduardo hopes to slay his beast of a backlog before he ends up on an episode of Game Hoarders.
	Sam Barsanti Editor In 2012, Sam plans to get a copy of Kinect Star Wars and learn the ways of the Jedi. He already figured out how to navigate Xbox menus just by waving his hands, so he'll probably have the Force mastered by June.
	Jason Lomberg Editor In 2011, Jason got shanked for panning Skyrim. He plans to up the ante in the new year...he'll settle for no less than disembowelment.
	James DeRosa Editor-at-Large James resolves to finally never play Too Human.
	Samir Torres Writer/Designer Most of what Samir's wife calls "garbage," he calls "treasures." That includes his collection of video games from yesteryear. Not having a strong enough heart to toss them in the trash, Samir promised his soul mate he would sell all his old cartridges and discs on eBay. Do you need a prescription to get Zoloft?
	Alejandro Quan-Madrid Writer Alejandro was lucky to receive a Nintendo 3DS as a Christmas/birthday combo gift. He's still trying to figure out how to get it working with his wireless Internet router.
	Jasmine Rea Writer Jasmine got mobbed by a bunch of Skylanders. They keep telling her to give them all her money and that owning one game on several platforms is a really good idea.
	Mike Minotti Writer Mike pledges to rescue his Xbox 360 from the rock golem who stole his precious console earlier in the week. It turns out that dark prophecies have foretold of the time when Mike must battle the great beast and determine the fate of the Nega-plane. Thank god Mike is a trained boxer.
	Omri Petitte Writer Finally fulfilling his much-maligned "cowls and cackles" quota, Omri vows to continue prolonging the reign of his mighty Empire in Star Wars: The Old Republic by conducting carefully orchestrated negotiations with his scheming Sith Assassin. He's still figuring out how that can work without stabbing someone in the back with a lightsaber.
	Rus McLaughlin Writer Rus plans to 100-percent Skyrim without ever advancing past level 1 and, on a more personal note, begin an epic quest to punch one representative from every animal species on Earth...in alphabetical order. He claims the manatees in particular "have it coming."
	Alex Cronk-Young Moderator Alex resolves to actually play more current releases in 2012. This should be easy to do, provided the games aren't too expensive, can be played in relatively short increments, can be saved very often, don't swear, aren't too violent, don't have any drug or alcohol references, aren't very scary or creepy, can be played with the sound completely turned down, and aren't so engrossing that he loses track of time. Yeah, that should be easy.
	Chris Hoadley Moderator Chris resolves to play fighting games only after he finishes everything else he has to do that day. Too often, "just a few minutes in Training Mode" quickly turns into "just a few matches online," which then becomes either "I can't stop when I'm on a hot streak" or "I don't want to end on a loss like that one."
	Evan Killham Intern Evan has given up on ever getting through his backlog, so he built a fort out of all of the games he hasn't finished yet. He resolves to figure out how to get pizzas delivered there.
	Sam Alegria Intern Sam resolves to actually get better at fighting games rather than simply collecting them. Maybe he'll even learn how to do one of them hadouken things.