Blessing of Kings

Wildstar released details of their latest race, the Chua. The Chua are a short, psychopathic, technologically-inclined race. This seems to...

In the comments to the last post , Talarian references Sid Meier's quote, "A game is a series of interesting choices." Not a...

I've been thinking about reagents and arrows lately. They're basically gone from the modern game. They were seen as trivial and obvi...

Firefall went into open beta recently. I downloaded it and gave it a whirl. Firefall is a third-person shooter, done in an animated cell-...

UnSubject has an excellent post on Metacritic . I strongly recommend reading it. The most interesting thing about Metacritic these days--a...

I saw this post by Vixsin on The State of Healing , and I wanted to comment on the general subject. Please note that I'm not really doin...

The new Proving Grounds  coming in 5.4 look pretty neat. I think teaching players how to tank and heal without throwing them into a live gro...

Always fond of navel-gazing, the blogosphere has been discussing why there are so few new MMO bloggers these days. I see a lot of calls to m...

With the news that WoW is looking at an expanded cash shop, I guess that's the last nail in the coffin for those of us who prefer pure s...

I think that travel time is a really important factor in making an MMO feel like a world instead of a game. However, travel time is highly i...

I finally finished the Battlefield Barrens weekly quest and got my Hordebreaker title. I am not sure if I liked the process or not. When I...

Gryphonheart at The Lion Guard posted about a tweet by Ghostcrawler regarding LFR . @Ixidane Most of the players doing LFR just didn...

The upcoming patch for The Old Republic has an interesting twist on the standard dungeon or instance. The patch contains two new flashpoints...

The following contains significant spoilers for the Sith Inquistor storyline in The Old Republic. I finished my third class storyline in T...

Here's a really interesting thread from the MMO-Champion forums:  Why Do You Choose LFR Over Raid Guilds?  There's a lot of chatter ...

After the discussion on F2P last week, the conversation turned to lock-boxes. These are items which you purchase with real money, where the ...

I've talked about Holy Paladins and Eternal Flame Blanketing before. It's the practice of putting 1-point EFs on many members of th...

First off, check out  this article  by Klepsacovic. Money quote: Sell a man a fish and you feed him for a day; offer a man a free fish and...

I've seen a lot of discussion lately about making content more exclusive, especially in light of Raid Finder and Flexible Raids. It occu...

I'm really glad I got in that post on Variable Group Size instead of sitting on it for a while like I normally do. So Blizzard is int...