Blessing of Kings

Pyschochild wrote a post on social fabric and multiplayer that has been bouncing around the blogosphere. His thesis is that "MMOs need...

The Old Republic launched it's mini-expansion, Rise of the Hutt Cartel, last weekend. It includes a new storyline revolving around the H...

Determination I really like the Determination buff in Raid Finder. Every time you wipe, you get an extra 5% buff that stacks up to 50%, un...

Drumuru in the latest wing of LFR is an interesting boss. On LFR particularly, his mechanic seems very harsh. First off, funny story in ou...

On a whim yesterday, I decided to try out Scarlet Blade , a new Free-2-Play MMO from Aeria Games. Here are my impressions. First of all, i...

I just got out of the best LFR group I've been in for a long while. It was a true LFR group, with people from several servers. It didn...

Ted A comments: And now we bring you this 'blast from the past'. A blog post from September 4, 2001, just days after Blizzard Ente...

Blizzard unveiled a new online Collectible Card Game this weekend: Hearthstone . This video illustrating gameplay has been making the rounds...

A while back I noted that, unlike other professions, crafting armor and weapons was in conflict with content rewards . Today I realized that...

On the last post , Kring comments: The question is, now that they scarified [Ed: sacrificed?] dungeons, how long will they continue to m...

Blizzard devs mentioned last week that--unlike previous expansions--there would be no new 5-man dungeons in Mists. However, there will be a ...

Like everyone else, I am saddened by the news that Google Reader will be shuttered. Ah well, you get what you pay for, I guess. The real l...

Ah, The Old Republic. Can't have a patch without a Free-To-Play controversy, now can we. Anyways, the latest controversy concerns this p...

Unrelated to this post, but Power Word: Dinosaur is the greatest spell introduced into WoW. At least for me, Blizzard's expansion of ...

The issues with the latest SimCity release are pretty interesting. I personally have not purchased SimCity. City building games don't re...

On the previous post , Stubborn comments: I completely agree, but since it would take an incredibly larger amount of effort on the dev...

Consider the difference between privileges and rules. Ideally, rules are for everyone. Everyone has to obey the same rules. Privileges on th...

Wow, it's crowded. And mobs respawn very fast. It appears to be a quest hub like the Golden Lotus, except that all three sites are ope...

Or rather, by the time you read this, today! I'm looking forward to this patch. I really liked the storyline of 5.1, and it will be in...

As  Cynwise notes , the rogue population at endgame has been steadily decreasing pretty much since Vanilla. This is interesting because rogu...