Other Games

I don’t know _anyone_ who, upon first meeting the child emperor in Diablo 3 Act II, didn’t think they’d be battling him at the end of the chapter. We left off last week with Stingite, Spode and me (witch doctor, barbarian and monk) at level 23 and Calrain as a level 10 barbarian, still recovering … Read more

Is Microsoft Flight even a game? It’s barely even a flight simulator. Whatever it is, it’s dead now. Released to lackluster reception last spring as a free download with day 1 DLC, it was officially killed a couple days ago. I downloaded it when it went F2P. You don’t get much for nothing; a light … Read more

The ironic part was when I was saying something stupid about avoiding dying, and Calrain said, “Like I just did?” And I looked and yup, he was dead. The game removed his character from the party and deleted her, and the forces of Hell grew slightly weaker for a moment. Calrain made a new character, … Read more

Am I the only one still writing about Diablo 3? Most (all?) of the people in my circles appear to have moved on. I admit to thinking of the game as a fairly wide miss before I went to hardcore. I just am not all that wild about games in which you grind and farm. … Read more

Team Spode continued through Act II in Diablo III last night, edging our way closer to the chapter’s fight against Belial. So far, though, the boss fights haven’t been that much of a problem, as we’re excessively paranoid about _those_. The _problem_ is just the good, old-fashioned mobs. Mobs here in the literal sense, as … Read more