Blessing of Kings

So EA/Bioware has announced that the old Republic will go Free-to-Play later this year. As a current subscriber, I'm somewhat disappoint...

I've been trying out some of the raids--or operations, as they're called--in The Old Republic.  TOR now has three raids: Eternity Va...

It seems like cosmetic gear has won the battle. Almost all games include the ability to change a character's appearance without affectin...

Sometimes I wonder if The Old Republic managed to incur an ancient voodoo curse during its development. It feels like almost every design de...

Blizzard has changed the spelling of Judgement to "Judgment"! Confirmation from Ghostcrawler himself can be found here . Damn ...

I've been playing The Old Republic for most of the past week. I've been gearing up my Imperial Agent with the small group flashpoint...

I've been reading a lot of posts about attunements, and I got to thinking about why exactly I like attunements. The major reason is th...

WoW Insider and Klepsacovic are arguing about attunements. I started writing a response, but realized that I had already written it five y...

With Mass Effect behind us, I've resubscribed to The Old Republic. I've also took the opportunity to uninstall Mass Effect 2 and 3, ...

(Yeah, this post is like one giant spoiler. Spoilers for Mass Effect, Macbeth, Knights of the Old Republic, Lord of the Rings and A Tale of ...

The ending to Mass Effect 3 is fundamentally, fatally, flawed. Barring a complete rewrite, it cannot be fixed, and will never rise to the st...

Real Money Auction House and Third-Party Real Money Trade In the comments on the last post, Redbeard asks, Whaddya think that the RMAH i...

A couple of items that caught my interest today. Diablo Digital Purchase Restriction Now when you purchase a digital copy of Diablo III,...

In Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard is opening a Black Market Auction House. This auction house is bid-only (no buyout) and will feature rare ite...

I've noticed that several game bloggers have seemed despondent due to the notion that the game industry is backsliding on its portrayal ...

Here are some more assorted thoughts from this weekend's beta of The Secret World Voice The Secret World is heavily voiced. However,...

The character conceit of The Secret World is that you are a normal person who suddenly gains "powers" and is then recruited and tr...

So, how do you feel about Mankrik's wife? Amusingly, right after I wrote the last post, I got a Beta weekend key for Funcom's upco...

I haven't really posted anything about a couple of anticipated MMOs: Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World. This is because I'm not real...

I've pretty much been "Diablo'd out", so I've gone back to TERA. I'm still chugging along the lower levels, up to ...