Blessing of Kings

The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory , 1996 I've been contempl...

FFXIV introduced a new system to try and promote good behavior in groups. It is a new currency called Player Commendations. At the end of th...

The Ghostcrawler Legacy, Part I The Ghostcrawler Legacy, Part II Continuing on, here are more system changes that occurred during Ghostcr...

In Part I , we looked at Ghostcrawler's interaction with the community. In this section we will look at Ghostcrawler's influence on ...

Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has announced that he is leaving Blizzard for a new opportunity. Ghostcrawler has been with Blizzard fo...

Yesterday, Syl tweeted about a video demonstrating some of Wildstar's combat mechanics: #WildStar Raiding Rampage - https://t.co/JJ3F...

I finally got my legendary cloak, [Jina-Kang, Kindness of Chi-Ji] . I really liked the last quest, where Wrathion and Lorewalker Cho told th...

I like Regency novels, so I was intrigued when I saw the Kickstarter for Ever, Jane . This is the first Kickstarter that I have contributed ...

Scene: A meeting between Rob Pardo, Chris Metzen, Dave Kosak, and an unnamed junior developer who happened to be walking down the corridor o...

Corrupter Zero is the fourth boss in Dread Fortress, the first of the new Oricon raids in The Old Republic. On Hard Mode, it's a bit of ...

The big news in leveling is that WoD will give every account one free level 90 (I gather you can boost any one character to 90), allowing th...

As Mists of Pandaria progressed, and the Alliance complaints about "Horde favoritism" got louder, I bet there were some Blizzard d...

As predicted , flexible raiding kills normal raiding and takes its stuff. In WoD, there will be four raiding modes, each on separate loot ...

Blizzcon has come and gone. Lots of information about the next expansion, Warlords of Draenor, was released. Let's take a look at some o...

The major rumor running around pre-Blizzcon is that the next WoW expansion will be titled "Warlords of Draenor". The rumor is that...

Star Wars is going to be reclaiming numerous character names on Nov 1. Essentially names of character who are under level 30, have not logge...

I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn for the last two months or so. I finally finished the main campaign and got a maxim...

One of the major problems with LFR is the lack of tanks. Queue times for non-tanks can be very long. Losing a tank can cause your group to w...

The Old Republic unveiled its latest expansion: Galactic Starfighter . I'm looking forward to this. I absolutely loved X-Wing and TIE Fi...

Milady at Hypercritism has an interesting post on The Politics of Tanking and Healing . Milady notes that women are more likely to be healer...