Blessing of Kings

I've finished the nine chapters of Fallen Empires that were released. Shintar makes a good point , when she describes the experience as ...

Yesterday SWTOR launched early access for its latest expansion, Knights of the Fallen Empire. The launch was smooth, with no real server iss...

One overlooked aspect of the new SWTOR expansion is that SWTOR seems to be moving away from class-based armor entirely. This is unusual for ...

It's been a while since I've written anything about Crowfall. Artcraft looks to be steadily making progress. Unfortunately most of t...

Whether DPS meters are good or bad is a hotly debated topic. I saw an interesting Reddit post  by WitcherMog that approaches the question fr...

It feels like we're in a lull in the MMO sphere. There's stuff on the horizon, but nothing really interesting is happening right now...

Last week The Old Republic revealed some of the game mechanic changes coming in Fallen Empire. The most controversial is that all planets wi...

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...