Blessing of Kings

Blizzard is starting to put out teasers for the D3 expansion. Here is the first teaser image: Reaper of Souls . This means it's time t...

Dacheng asks: Why are the orcs turning on Garrosh? Isn't he the best warchief they ever had? Oh, I understand why the other species in...

I'm drawing a blank on what to write about. We kind of seem to be in a waiting period in MMOs. There's some interesting stuff on the...

Everything seems to be moving along steadily. My guild in The Old Republic is trying to move into Nightmare Modes. We've killed Writhing...

Another major element EQ Next is promising is destructible terrain. I think it's going to be an interesting experiment. The immediate ...

Continuing the discussion on Trinity gameplay, I'd like to take a step back and survey the situation from a higher viewpoint. So far, ...

Once again everyone is hyped up for another game which promises to do away with the Trinity of tank-healer-dps. This time the game is EQ Nex...

I had an interesting experience in a Raid Finder group yesterday. We had killed the first boss and were clearing trash to the second boss....

Clockwork at Out of Beta has an interesting post on questioning whether timers should reset based on the individual player's cooldown, ...

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...