» WoW Housing Gets Some Pillars to Support It
02/12/25 16:15 (7 hours ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
It feels like there is nothing a game designer likes more than to pontificate about their design pillars… assuming they’re no...
» World of Warcraft: Ping-ponging between alts
02/12/25 14:00 (9 hours ago) from Bio Break
Running a set of weekly timewalking dungeons for that sweet 600+ gear is what’s keeping my toes in World of Warcraft retail right n...
» Neoclassical - Giving Blade&Soul Another Go
02/12/25 12:41 (10 hours ago) from Inventory Full
I don't, by and large, suffer from FOMO. I can let all kinds of things slide without worrying about it. I do, however, have somethi...
» Civilization VII Arrives!
02/11/25 16:15 (1 day ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
I mentioned the Advanced Access launch of Civilization VII at our team standup last week… we’re all nerds there, it seems lik...
» Erenshor: Oh, by the way, which one is Bink?
02/11/25 13:01 (1 day ago) from Chasing Dings!
Erenshor is the single player RPG you tell MMO stories about. Related posts: Ogre Battle, Blaugust, Steam Deck, V Rising, and Guild Wars ...
» Random Stuff for February 11, 2025
02/11/25 12:56 (1 day ago) from Scopique
3D modeling, development slump, reading time, and why aren't I gaming, dammit?!
» Stars Reach Kickstarter Delayed, Testing Updates, Raph’s AMA, and Other Items
02/10/25 16:15 (2 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
On Saturday there was a fireside chat led by Carneros before the day’s play test opened up, a change up of the usual order of thing...
» Fallout 76: The legendary sheepsquatch!
02/10/25 14:00 (2 days ago) from Bio Break
This week I ventured down into the area of Fallout 76 known as the Ash Heap. It’s a lot of stuff burning or previously burned, soot...
» More Writing About Writing
02/10/25 12:54 (2 days ago) from Inventory Full
This is one of those (Thankfully rare.) days when I want to post something but don't have anything to post about. Obviously, that's not l...
» Goodbye Microsoft Office
02/09/25 22:21 (3 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Humans are creatures of habit. Often we find it easier to stick with the status quo, rather than try something new or make a change. I ha...
» TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Five Sees a New Lead and a Cancelled Title
02/09/25 16:15 (3 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
We’re into week five… five of fifty two, so a long way to go still… and we have some more updates. We left off with the...
» Bio Break Mix Tape: Blake Babies, Stellar Blade, and more!
02/09/25 14:00 (3 days ago) from Bio Break
It’s the start of the week, so why not start it off right with some great tunes? Enjoy your latest Bio Break Mix Tape, a random collectio...
» Audible Catches Up With Me
02/08/25 18:15 (4 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
I have had an Audible.com account since May 14, 2000. That feels like a lifetime ago. My wife and I had been married less than a year a...
» The Invincible
02/08/25 16:07 (4 days ago) from Scopique
A short (6 hours) narrative experience on a far away planet from the 1960's.
» Star Citizen’s Apology Tour
02/08/25 12:34 (4 days ago) from Scopique
CIG commits to fewer features, more bug fixes in 2025. I'm tired, man, but I have to hold on to hope because what else can I do?
» Redacted Beholder
02/07/25 23:28 (5 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Playing the BG3 Friendly Necromancer Character?
02/07/25 22:16 (5 days ago) from The Friendly Necromancer
Ok, SORRY. I thought I was done with Baulder’s Gate 3. I really did, but then I remembered I also really would love to make a Friendly Ne...
» Pull Up The Covers
02/07/25 16:08 (5 days ago) from Inventory Full
This is a tough one. Do I buckle down and get on with the covers post I've been threatening for what feels like months and for which I ha...
» Finding the Blast Furnace in Enshrouded
02/07/25 15:15 (5 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Our goal for the week was to collect the unlock for the blast furnace, the crafting station required for the next round of gear upgrades....
» WoW Classic: The life of a laid-back farmer
02/07/25 14:00 (5 days ago) from Bio Break
If playing retail WoW is pretty much focused in the moment-to-moment now, Classic is a more splintered experience. Sure, there’s th...
» Watching Other People Play Video Games
02/06/25 19:44 (6 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
The notion of live streaming or recording video game playthroughs is now a clearly established part of popular culture. It is something y...
» Games, Music, TV, Books... It Must Be The Grab-Bag!
02/06/25 16:45 (6 days ago) from Inventory Full
Today, I believe we shall have a grab-bag of various odds and ends. Even though it is Thursday. Because tomorrow I believe we shall have ...
» The No Man’s Sky Worlds Part II Update Overwhelms Me
02/06/25 14:15 (6 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
While I have been diving into the updates that landed with Enshrouded last week, I have also spared a minute or two to look into what hap...
» Uno Stacko and Ra
02/06/25 07:43 (6 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Season Two of The War Within Is Changing Mythic Plus – And Maybe Hinting At More Changes To Come
02/05/25 19:00 (7 days ago) from Kaylriene
With the 11.1 PTR entering what is likely a near-final phase of testing on the Liberation of Undermine update for World of Warcraft’...
» Storytime Is Over
02/05/25 16:29 (7 days ago) from Inventory Full
This morning I finished the Signature Adventure Questline for EverQuest II' s twenty-first expansion, Scars of Destruction . For a given ...
» LOTRO: Camping in Middle-earth — at last!
02/05/25 14:00 (7 days ago) from Bio Break
This is really cool — at least for me. One of my constant most-requested features in MMOs is the simple ability to create a campsit...
» Phase Two – Aggregators of Social Media
02/05/25 13:40 (7 days ago) from Scopique
I've been trying a few social media aggregation apps, and they all fall short by offering a view-only window of our own accounts. Is this...
» Hell Let Loose and Dark and Darker
02/05/25 11:06 (7 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» 10 Types of Annoying PvP Match
02/04/25 21:26 (8 days ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog
» Rule Of Three - or - Measure Once, Cut Thrice
02/04/25 12:06 (8 days ago) from Inventory Full
The Stars Reach Kickstarter kicks off for real next week. I know this because I'm being deluged with emails from Playable Worlds a...
» d20 rules comparison 2.0
02/03/25 22:32 (9 days ago) from GamingSF
Back in 2019 I did a rules comparison post between Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, 5th edition and the Starfinder tabletop roleplayin...
» Follow The Money
02/03/25 18:33 (9 days ago) from Inventory Full
After I finished playing Wuthering Waves this afternoon I found myself thinking about a couple of things I remembered Naithin and ...
» Sniper Elite Resistance: 10 Tips
02/03/25 15:53 (9 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
I have played Sniper Elite for over a decade, through all its various iterations. Although the core game mechanics stay broadly the same,...
» Blender Render: The Filth
02/03/25 14:56 (9 days ago) from Scopique
As per usual, my own postmortem, this one for my first rendered scene.
» Syp’s gaming goals for February 2025
02/03/25 14:00 (9 days ago) from Bio Break
January 2025 in review Happy new year indeed! It was a nice if largely uneventful month of gaming. I didn’t deviate much from well-...
» Rolling Dice and Taking Names: My CaptainCon 2025 Experience
02/03/25 13:00 (9 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
We traveled through the Quiet Corner to the exotic Rhode Island to chew bubblegum and play board games. There was a lot more going on tha...
» LOTRO: Will Your Kinship Survive the Server Migration?
02/02/25 16:51 (10 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
I have many pleasant memories associated with playing the MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online during its first decade. A lot of them are ...
» February 2025 Zone of the Month -- Gumdrop Forest
02/02/25 03:45 (10 days ago) from The Friendly Necromancer
Keeping the tradition alive! Randomness has returned us once again to Karamelle. Truly the universe is telling me I need to move al...
» Lioness and Landman
02/02/25 02:49 (10 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Wrapping up January 2025
02/02/25 01:00 (10 days ago) from Many Welps
This Month: Top 5 Games of January 2025 Game Playtime Conan Chop Chop 13.5 hours Wytchwood 12 hours Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap 11.5 hours J...
» Credit Where Credit Might Be Due
02/01/25 20:06 (11 days ago) from Scopique
CIG's decision to cancel the upcoming free-fly event is wise. VERY wise. But why cancel this time, and what does it and other moves by th...
» Sunday Too Far Away
02/01/25 14:33 (11 days ago) from Inventory Full
Yesterday's post was music-related but it wasn't an actual music post as such. Or that's my story. I was always planning to do a music po...
» In Review – January 2025
02/01/25 14:00 (11 days ago) from Nerd Girl Thoughts
Basically not blogging for the entire month of January had me feeling like I fell way short this month. And as far blogging related goals...
» Dredge and LOTR: Return to Moria
02/01/25 03:34 (11 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Around the SWTOR-sphere: January 2025
01/31/25 23:42 (11 days ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog
» The Recluse Report - January 2024 Part 2
01/31/25 23:30 (12 days ago) from Endgame Viable
Anything happen since last time? Gaming It’s been persistently sub-freezing most of the last couple of weeks, which saps any energy...
» BG3 es fini and the Everquest Beastlord Build
01/31/25 15:37 (12 days ago) from The Friendly Necromancer
People of the Friendly Necromancer! In the past week I have wrapped up two (count 'em, TWO) play-throughs of Baulder's Gate 3. What...
» WoW Classic: The ballad of Gigafart
01/31/25 14:00 (12 days ago) from Bio Break
My eldest son is a dinosaur nut and watches the Jurassic Park/World movies frequently. Since I am not settled on a pet yet, I tamed a rap...
» Nerd Girl Goals – February 2025
01/31/25 14:00 (12 days ago) from Nerd Girl Thoughts
Right now, even thinking about blogging about entertainment media and crafty things feels a lot like the meme below. January was exceptio...