Wizard101: Is that a crafting station or an ATM?

I pretty much gave up on crafting when I received the first Dragonspyre crafting quest and realized how many hours of gathering I would have to do. More than I wanted, and if Malistaire had once needed some special high-level crafted item to fall in defeat, his re-nerfing meant he needed that no longer, so … Read more

Twitter under siege

Twitter is suffering from a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack from one or more major botnets (networks of compromised computers – maybe yours!). Welcome to the future, where battles occur that would have been impossible to even understand when I was a kid.

Daily Blogroll 8/4 — Lifetime edition

Well, would YOU bet $200 on a game that nobody but press is allowed to talk about, a month before it’s released? When Lord of the Rings Online offered the same deal — A Benjamin and his identical twin for a lifetime subscription — you had a month to think it over. Not so with … Read more

Daily Blogroll 7/31 — For Shannon

Sorry for the entire and almost complete lack of posts this week… family stuff. Guess I should have called it the “WEEKLY Blogroll”…. What makes an MMORPG an RPG? Nowadays, EVERYTHING seems to be called an RPG. First person shooters like Call of Duty 4 are suddenly RPGs because they include levels (and, arguably, classes … Read more