Blessing of Kings

Lately I've been making lots of alts in Diablo 3. You know, D3 classes have a *lot* of abilities, especially when you count runes. I...

One of the more interesting things to happen recently in the world of competitive gaming is that Magic: the Gathering gave up its ELO rating...

The other day, I realized that I had not logged into Eve Online for a while. In fact, I was avoiding logging in. So I canceled my subscripti...

Elective Mode in Diablo 3 is a design mistake. Further, Blizzard knew it was a design mistake, but they caved in to the whining of the hardc...

I haven't really purchased anything on Auction House on my Demon Hunter, other than selling off extra rares. However, I started a hardco...

I'm still slowly going through D3 with my Demon Hunter. I'm in Act III and am about level 30. Here's the build I'm currently...

A lot of people want the ability to go "invisible" with the Battletag system. That is, to appear offline to everyone else, but be ...

Diablo 3 was released last night. I actually got home pretty late, so I decided to stay up for a little bit longer and see if I could get st...

One of the interesting things about TERA is that--even though it has a cross-server instance finder--transient dungeon groups often still fo...

This is one of my favorite videos. Greyfoo does really good work, and this is one of his best. It's interesting, because he did th...

Ratshag left a comment on the previous post on MMO decline , and I've decided to highlight his comment and my response: I notice you ...

I love Blizzard. Their playerbase is busy arguing about pandas and their dances . Then out of left field, Blizzard goes, "Hey guys,  cr...

First, let's start with a caveat. The following theory is most likely not true. I doubt its validity, mostly because I would like it to ...

The big news today is that Bioware revealed that The Old Republic has 1.3 million subscribers , a drop of 400,000 from their previously anno...

Lancer tanking in TERA is the best implementation of tanking in any MMO that I have played. Now you should take that with a grain of salt,...

So there's a New Blogger Initiative making the rounds. I was thinking about writing some advice, but I remembered that I've pretty ...

Here's a really nice video and song about the Dragonwrath questline. The storybook conceit is very nicely done. Hats off to Nananea ...

This will be the last post on the PLEX issue. I still think PLEX is unfair. All the arguments for PLEX have sidestepped the basic unfairne...

I am really enjoying TERA so far. It's a great deal of fun. I adore combat as a Lancer. Bringing your shield up to block at just the ...

I've been following Gevlon's comment thread , and I've realized that he and I are actually talking about two  different aspects ...