Box Art Review!

Sigil’s fan service model for their new MMO got me wondering… aside from clearly targeting their game at teenage males, how well does using sexy cover art actually sell the game? EverQuest’s “bondage” cover for their Ruins of Kunark expansion was unsurprisingly also painted by the late Keith Parkinson. Firiona would get bustier and bustier … Read more

Fanguard in San Diego

Sigil Games is holding another Fanguard here in San Diego. I’ve been interested in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes for awhile, but my time was filled with other games. Now, temporarily not playing EQ, and with the WoW bug waning, I have time. So, I signed up, and if I remember, I’ll sneak the company digital … Read more

A Seer, a Sage and a Champion walk into a bar…

Someone posted a long description of a guild he was starting, that separated the classes into three categories, Seers, Sages and Champions. Then he followed it up with a next post which said, simply, “A Seer, a Sage, and a Champion walk into a bar….” Dunno. Sounded like a challenge to me! So I wrote … Read more

Firefox saves the day

The Warehouse manager tried to print out a tracking sheet, but IE bluescreened on him. I’d seen this on another computer… It worked fine in IE on my computer, and in Firefox, which got me thinking… I installed Firefox on his computer, and it worked fine. Now, I don’t know why IE crashes, and Firefox … Read more

Skinning my Blog

I finally got sick of the default skin for this blog, and after having skinned the Prophetic Fate version successfully, decided to go for a new look here. I had this vision of an illuminated (like monks used to do) title against parchment. So step one was: make a nice parchment texture. So what is … Read more