Wizard101: The Death of Estrakir

Even though you no longer have to do the Celestia pre-quest in order to eventually head to that undersea expansion when it arrives later this year, why wouldn’t you want to, right? The pre-quest has you fighting bosses in Krokotopia, Mooshu and Dragonspyre in order to assemble a Rosetta stone that will allow the deciphering … Read more

STO: How to Choose Your Dabo Girl

Season 2.0 is out on Star Trek Online’s test server, Tribble, now, and they’ve just stuffed the game with new goodness. Five new levels, which bring you from Rear Admiral, LOWER HALF to Rear Admiral, UPPER HALF. As @Longasc noted, get them together, you end up with one WHOLE Admiral, or maybe a FRONT Admiral. … Read more

Peter Gunn recap: “The Blind Pianist”

I never saw this show on television. But I heard about it. All over — because of its theme. The first time I remember hearing the theme was when I saw “The Blues Brothers” movie for the first time. Duhduh duhduh duhduh DUHduh duhduh duhduh duhduhDUHduh — then the piano comes in, and then the … Read more

Does WoW set impossibly high standards?

It wasn’t the “Warhammer 40K MMO needs just one million of WoW’s players” line from Danny Bilson’s ebulliently gleeful speech about the game THQ plans to publish that caught my eye. Every game that comes out admits they’d be happy to get just ten or twenty percent of World of Warcraft’s player base. And if … Read more