Blessing of Kings

Since we usually hear stories about how terrible Looking For Raid is, I thought I'd mention a good experience I had last Sunday. We were...

Last year, I noted that Magic: the Gathering had dropped its ELO system for a pure point system.  Last week, we saw the latest ripples of ...

Tip: You can do Scenarios while in queue for Looking For Raid/Dungeon. It's not well publicized, and the UI doesn't really explain...

Blizzard unveiled their latest scheme for loot in 5.2, Thunderforged gear : Each 5.2 raid boss will have a chance of dropping this new de...

Big Bear Butt wrote a post last month,  Some Folk You Just Can't Reach , that I meant to respond to. In the post, BBB asks, So, do you...

Green Armadillo at Player Versus Developer takes note of the fact that Blizzard has removed the Upgrade Vendor NPC from the 5.2 PTR. This i...

The Old Republic is releasing a mini-expansion, Rise of the Hutt Cartel . It costs $10 for subscribers, and $20 for non-subscribers.  It has...

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...