Blessing of Kings

Atherne asks: I've been thinking about this and have decided to try Raiding. I'll need to gear up an appropriately leveled chara...

Transistor is the second game by Supergiant Games. Transistor is an isometric RPG-style game that's 4 to 6 hours long. Supergiant...

Several years ago, I proposed a DPS Cap mechanic , in order to reduce the amount of optimization in DPS gameplay. Surprisingly, Eve Online...

There is a minor debate in the FFXIV community as to the proper way to play healers in random groups. FFXIV healing is not super-spammy. If ...

Yesterday, I posted that I had decided to play WoW a bit more. By the end of the evening, though, I had cancelled my account. The reason: ...

I've been playing WoW a bit more lately. I decided that I'd like to at least get flying and the Legendary ring on my paladin. I...

FFXIV had it's second anniversary recently, and celebrated it with a pretty interesting in-game event. The first part of the event was...

I thought I'd make a quick post about what I'm doing in various games. The Old Republic I took a fourth character, my Trooper, t...

I came across a neat emergent phenomenon in SWTOR: player bankers. A non-subscriber in SWTOR has a credit cap of 350k credits. Once at the...

There are some very interesting changes coming for PvP in Legion: No PvP-specific gear - Heh, I actually talked about this last year , an...

External Drive Enclosure Thanks to the recommendations of gamingsf and Pallais in a previous post , I purchased an external hard drive enc...

It always amuses me to compare the WoW player culture with Blizzard's WoW dev culture. A lot of the time they're the same. But somet...

WoW's next expansion is Legion . I think it looks pretty interesting. A number of bloggers seem to think that it lacks a "game-chan...

In the end I went with an ASUS Windows laptop. I had hoped that getting a machine which was somewhat aimed at gaming would cut down on the b...

It looks like my computer has died on me. There was a pop, the machine shut down, and I could smell the acrid stink of burning electronics. ...

This post contains minor spoilers for the Heavensward storyline. I've finished the main story in Heavensward, and am in the gearing up...

SWTOR released a post today, detailing the plans for Operations and Flashpoints in Fallen Empire . I am really not sure what to think. For...

I like the basic design of garrison followers. I liked recruiting them, leveling them up, and improving their gear. However, as with everyth...

For the most part, the WoD professions design worked pretty well. Having a separate building for each profession, generating a limiting reag...

Garrisons are the signature mechanic of Warlords of Draenor. They are also a failure, and have hurt the game more than they have helped. H...