Will the rise of User Generated Content be the real “WoW-killer”?

Maracas aren’t as good at warding off intergalactic invaders as I thought they would be. While out gathering the day’s meals, my duckling tribespeople were startled by a huge contraption which WALKED on white, clanking legs down from the sky and sucked up the food animals that were being kept in the pen behind the … Read more

W101: Krokosphinx and October 1 patch notes

After being a one-wizard elimination team on the Niriki royalty, it turned out it was all for nothing. Professor Winthrop told me with an astonished tone that the missing Order of the Fang was on an *entirely different island*. Not in the Pyramid of the Sun *at all*, it turns out. So, I had just … Read more

Straight Talk Warhammer: The Witch Hunter

Was your life as devastated as ours when one, two, and then three days went by without a Straight Talk Warhammer? Did you feel feverish, slipping in and out of consciousness, and have long and repetitive arguments with yourself about whether or not Sokka from The Last Airbender was inspired by Xander Harris from Buffy … Read more

Disease dreams

Whatever was sneaking up on me Friday turned into full-blown influenza Sunday morning. I’ve been spending my time alternately dreaming and hallucinating; I’m not sure which I’m typing this in. I want to sit up but can only do it in five minute stretches. Two dreams I remember, but… body wants me to lie back … Read more

EQ: The Lurkers of Lavaspinner’s Lair & more

Another Friday, another entirely new zone, and we still are ages from seeing more than a fraction of the game. Last week, we started doing the faction quests that open up the main mission arc of the Dragons of Norrath expansion. The first brought us to Stillmoon Temple, deep inside the Broodlands. Last night, though, … Read more