Blessing of Kings

This post contains significant spoilers for the Sith Warrior storyline in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I finished the Sith Warrior storyli...

Spinks has a interesting post up about learning content in MMOs : I feel increasingly that random group content in MMOs is an anti-learnin...

The latest entry in The Longest Journey saga, Dreamfall: Chapters, was released yesterday. I have mixed feelings about this. I absolutely ...

This NPR story, When Women Stopped Coding , has been making the rounds in tech circles.  Its main thrust can be summed up with the following...

This post contains entirely predictable spoilers for the Sith Warrior and Sith Inquisitor stories in The Old Republic. In both the Sith In...

It's almost time for a new expansion in The Old Republic, so I've finally finished the Makeb story line on a Republic character. I c...

FFXIV announced it's new expansion, Heavensward, today. I really like how FFXIV embraces its killer mechanic, class changing on the...

The discussion in the previous post brought to mind how FFXIV handles abilities and GCDs, which is slightly different from the norm. GCD...

At the New York Cantina Event, Bioware announced that the romance arcs in the upcoming Shadows of Revan expansion will be "player-sexu...

How often should a player be hitting a button? Should the player be pressing a button every global cooldown (GCD), or is it better that some...

I bit the bullet and resubscribed to WoW. Here are my impressions of the new patch. Character Models The new character models look prett...

WoW's 6.0 patch comes out tonight with the new character models, stat squish, and class changes. There's also the pre-expansion cont...

More and more MMOs are attempting to incorporate open-world content into their games. However, participating in open-world content often con...

Coincidentally, both the Drumuru fight in WoW (Throne of Thunder raid) and Dread Master Brontes in SWTOR (Dread Fortress operation) share a ...

Here's another thought I had while reading about the various issues Wildstar has at endgame. What if Wildstar had not launched with ra...

Another experiment I would like to see is a game with perma-death but without PvP. A purely PvE game. I think perma-death would have inte...

I'm blanking on what to write about today, so here's an overview of what I'm currently playing: Star Wars: The Old Republic ...

Talking about story quests and the pre-order perk for TOR reminded me about a thought that's been bouncing around my head in the last li...

Bioware unveiled the latest (real) expansion for The Old Republic today: Shadow of Revan . Contents SoR is a normal expansion, with a 5 ...

I was musing yesterday about sentries and people guarding elements in PvP. In a movie, a PvE scenario or a stealth game, the rogue would sne...