Recently I noticed the weeks where entirely uneventful and just felt like they where just flying by, and I feel like I'm spending my evenings just 'doing nothing' it's hard to describe Anyway, last night I realised I think it's because I haven't properly played any video games this year, I usually put in at least 8/10 hours over the weekend, and a couple at least every other week night.

This year so far I just haven't, Skyrim I got bored with despite putting a good 40 hours pre xmas in and not even doing any of the main missions ('saving them') Now my xbox sits downstairs, I haven't used it since probably November, my PS3 I switch on to listen to music, infact the only game I've played recently is fruit ninja when I'm taking a dump, and maybe 2/3 10 minute blasts on the new Twisted Metal beta.

Early last week I bought sonic generations for my ps3 as it was dirt cheap, it's still in the shrink wrap.

I'm not giving up gaming or anything, it's just that right now for the first time in 15 or more years nothing on the market makes me want to play it, and this odd feeling, an unfulfilled void, or withdrawl symtpoms or whatever it is, is entirely bizarre!

Has anyone experienced anything like this?

Wouldn't go quite so far but I'm playing a lot less games than what I did, bought loads of games on the steam sales before christmas and I've played one I think and I've only played CoD3 on my xbox but even then only once or twice a week.  There's a couple of preorders that I'll sit and play when they come out, but not that much really.

Started to realise I need to get out more instead of sitting playing games, so I've sat on my arse and done nowt instead  maybe this year...

Sounds normal and healthy to me tbh, I was a pretty heavy gamer from my teens to mid 30’s - I got jaded of it 4 or 5 years ago, now I consider myself to be a gaming butterfly.

I racked up an insane number of hours in MMO’s back in SWG and WoW (7-8 hours on a work day, 16+ on a day off) but now I can go 3 months without touching a game for more than an hour or 2 a week ... but then a game grabs me and I will rack up the hours and really enjoy it for awhile, I’m pretty happy with that as I still enjoy games, but gaming simply doesn’t matter as much as it once did.

I went through a phase like this not too long ago and ended redressing my entire work/life balance because of it. I was spending what amounts to (for me) far too much time vegetating in front of the PS3, but when I started more active hobbies I found myself enjoying my (albeit limited) gaming time a lot more. I could relax and enjoy essentially doing nothing because I was physically tired but still quite mentally alert. And it becomes something quite special when you can spend an entire Sunday on the PS3, it only happens once in a blue moon now but I appreciate it when it does happen.

I'm kind of the same, but if I buy a game at full price it's because I want to play it now, I have a pile of games that I have got ages after release for £5-£10 that I'll play when I get round to it around other things, like girl friend duties and photography, and I pick up mine craft occasionally to have a bit of a play...

...I'm in the process of renovating the spawned village near the castle/skybase and it was looking a bit tatty, then I'm going to fill it full of villagers

Nexus the "Gay Vader Voice" tag appears not to be working, can you fix it please?

I play games when I can be arsed

Used to be hooked on eve online and now it's starcraft 2.

There is a common factor in this though it's being able to play with others. I almost never bother playing single player aspects of games.

Otherwise I'm with nige, I'll watch a movie or something.

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I don't think it's me getting old

Yep, you are well past old now and on the way to ancient 

I've had quite a few times when I've not even been able to gather enough effort to switch on the PC for weeks. Over the last two years I've been away from tekforums more than I've been on 

and I've still got over 4K more posts than anyone else? Come on you slackers, spam those posts ya lazy dogs 

Vita tomorrow and mass effect 3 soon, so hopefully will be blowing dust off the xbox and doing some vita-ing