Blessing of Kings

My computer was having a lot of trouble with Looking For Raid in Pandaria. It would crash often, on pretty much every fight. Given that it w...

Big Bear Butt had a post last week decrying Blizzard's stance against cross-realm raiding in the current tier. Ghostcrawler tweeted tha...

Last Monday, Andrew Woodruff from Mechanist Games gave me a little tour of their upcoming MMO, City of Steam . City of Steam is a bro...

In a comment to my review of The Guild Leader's Companion, Bearness writes: The book sounds helpful and thorough...and very disenchan...

Milady wrote a really interesting post last week about Agency and Powerlessness . She contends that gaming narratives are immature in part b...

Adam 'Ferrel' Trzonkowski of  Epic Slant  sent me a review copy of his latest book, The Guild Leader's Companion . This is the s...

So in Patch 5.1, Blizzard converted  [Lesser Charm of Good Fortune]  into currency. Then they gave us  [Domination Point Commission]  as an ...

A lot of feminist gamers decry the fact that gaming companies are almost totally male. Personally, I've never felt this was an entirely ...

I got an email from  Amalia Badawi about a psychology study at Charles Darwin University in Australia about people who may or may not use ch...

Tobold is calling for more randomness in raiding. I disagree with this idea. Here are my reasons: 1. Randomness has been disliked in the ...

The last few weeks have been pretty crazy for me in real life. I've barely had time to play games, let alone write about them. Hopeful...

The latest mini-controversy in WoW is invitations to the Brawlers Guild. Unlike most content which unlocks immediately, invitations to the B...

A quick post for Holy Paladins running Heroics in Mists. I'm using a new technique, Eternal Flame blanketing, and it is working out real...

Fatty Goatsteak If there's one Tillers daily that generates a lot of ire, it's Fatty Goatsteak . Personally, I pull one goat at a ...

The Old Republic is releasing more details on its Free-2-Play option. It looks like they are setting up a three-tier system: Subscribers ...

It's odd, but for me, the killer feature of Mists is your farm at Halfhill. I've played games which had player housing, and simila...

The Old Republic released its vision of Free2Play, and naturally all the forums are in an uproar over it. The big issue is that there is no ...

After thinking about the dailies issue for a bit, I wonder if there is a disconnect between Blizzard's view of Valor gear in this expans...

I am kind of glad I am not raiding so far in this expansion. There's so much to do at level 90, and I'm having a lot of fun just tak...

Songen writes: I was thinking about WoW the other day while I was playing Diablo 3. The thing I love most about Diablo 3 is that you can ...