Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Non-MMO games.
Hey, if your teenage is a Minecraft addict, we have something in common. I thought, for awhile, that I was free of Minecraft. I’d gotten bored with digging holes in the ground. Exploration was fun, but there wasn’t anything to FIND — the world would go on forever in every direction, and all the same. … Read more
I’m more interested these days in the single player RPG version of 38 Studios’ “Kingdoms of Amalur” than I am in its future MMO incarnation. My recent several play-throughs of Bioware’s excellent “Dragon Age” RPG have firmly confirmed me as an RPG nut. When companies make their IPs into MMOs, they have to have some … Read more
I’ve been wanting to write more blog posts, but every time I sit down to write about Minecraft, I end up playing Minecraft, and then it’s suddenly midnight. If you’ve managed to avoid all the Minecraft hype over the past few weeks, I hope it’s warm and cozy under your rock. The basic premise is, … Read more
Carpe Fulgur had the bad judgement to release Recettear: An item Shop’s Tale while I was traveling. But that’s okay. Recette and her mob-connected business fairy, Tear, would wait. Painting the shelves. That chocolate bar melting in the window was this guy’s inheritance from his grandmother. “Sell it,” she told him, “if you ever need … Read more
There’s this thing I will always remember about Dragon Age: Awakening. Without explicitly putting the pieces together, there were plenty of hints that the new classes in Dragon Age: Origins’ expansion could connect with the old classes in exciting ways. Turning on the mage ability that drains mana from the corpses of the dead, plus … Read more