DCUO: What a long, strange trip it’s been.

The earliest picture I have of DC Universe Online is from 2008. It’s of my son standing at the DCUO booth at a (then) Sony Online Entertainment Fan Faire. I was mostly excited about the upcoming Free Realms at the time. Twelve years later, Free Realms is gone, and DCUO remains. Since then, I’d joined … Read more

Lemons Looks at Love

A guest article by Lemons 🙂 A moderately multiplayer FPS by a single man? What an amazing feat, and when promised some of the best things, such as human-like AI and an almost dream-like virtual world … one can get very excited over a game and follow it for a year or two. The visuals … Read more

CoX: Madame Scurry, Ms. Narusegawa, and the Amoy Tiger — Villains and Heroes

I thought I’d say hello to my City of Heroes/Villains characters again. Now that I am not paying for a second Station Pass subscription, I can check back in on my older games, like City of Heroes and World of Warcraft. I never had played City of Villains, actually, and I’d entirely forgotten how to … Read more

Running Dungeons

Since not playing since the Dungeon Runners beta, I figured it was time to give it another shot. It gives me that WoW experience — cartoon characters with huge weapons and armor, humor, ability to solo, fast levels and quick upgrades and the occasional group — far cheaper. Free’s cheap, right? Though I went ahead … Read more

The Deep Ones

And yet I saw them in a limitless stream – flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating – urging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. And some of them had tall tiaras of that nameless whitish-gold metal … and some were strangely robed … and one, who led the way, was … Read more