Wizard101: Briskbreeze Tower and the Gauntlet of Woe

Ever wondered what kind of tricks KingsIsle has in store for those brave enough to step into their new instance? Yeah, me too. The quest that starts in Olde Town leads eventually to a new tower in Colossus Boulevard — Briskbreeze Tower. Now THAT doesn’t sound too bad, right? And it isn’t. The first three … Read more

Wizard101: Mounts, Elixirs, Seamstresses and Henchmen

The upcoming Wizard101 mega-patch is up on the test server today, and we were there to look over the new changes. We’d known about the new mounts that were on their way, but that’s not all KingsIsle had up their billowing sleeves. First up: mounts. You’ll see brooms, tigers, horses and dragons flying around. You … Read more

Wizard 101: My greatest failure

It’s the Ides of Octember in Wizard City, Spooky Bob is on the prowl, and a mysterious dark tower has appeared where the previous dark tower was, before it fell through Wizard City’s basement to Nightside. It was all harmless fun last year… until I found out the Pumpkin Head would (rarely) drop the mechanical … Read more

EVE Online: PvP ops fallout

Last night, a “rogue group” of us OtakuDyne types headed to lowsec for some ratting fun, and ended up going to nullsec to rat, and taking on some players we found. We killed our fellow ratters, and then their friends killed us. Was that all there was to it? Nope, we’d kinda opened a playroom … Read more