MTV's Stephen Totilo put together an interesting story about his darkest moments of video game reporting. It shows a little of what happens between the game playing, game reviews and Q&As in the life of a gaming journalist.

His darkest moments included emergency surgery on his tail bone (I'm not making that up), a computer freaking out on him at E3 and a power-outage at the Game Developers Conference.

Check it out, it gives you a taste of the life of luxury that is the solo game reporter's lot. Oh and he even hat tips my horrid E3 experience:

The next day, I trucked my tale of woe back to E3. Kotaku's Brian Crecente nodded and smiled. He told me that on the Gates day, he left a pen on his laptop keyboard, then slammed his computer shut. His screen cracked and he had to buy a new machine. I stopped telling people my story. He won.

Brian Crecente

Multiplayer: The Year's Darkest Moments Of Video Game Reporting [MTV]