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Blogging Months…

Focusing on one game: Suzerain

9 Aug 20229 Aug 2022
I have always had a hard time focusing on one game at a time, with the exception of MMOs. Lately, this seems to have gotten worse. I started playing Megaquarium…
Blogging Months…

Gaming Goals for August/September 2022

8 Aug 20228 Aug 2022
It's rather difficult to set any goals at all when I have no idea how much time I am going to have to play a game in the evenings or…
Blogging Months…

Screenshot Saturday: New glasses

6 Aug 2022
Some time ago, I had bought more gems for myself. I had not wanted to spend them on anything immediately, but rather wanted to save them for when I see…
Blogging Months…

Quick Impressions: Emily is away <3

5 Aug 2022
After "Emily is away" and "Emily is away too", "Emily is away <3" is the third in this game series. I am not going to write about the first two…
Blogging Months…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Living in an MMO

4 Aug 20224 Aug 2022
Answering one of my own prompts here: If you could – or had to – live in an MMO world for the rest of your life, which one would you…
Blogging Months…

WoW Dragonflight Impressions of The Azure Span (Warning: Spoiler!)

2 Aug 20222 Aug 2022
I got an invite to the alpha of World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion and decided to take a look. I don't want to write much about it as my goal…
Blogging Months…

Blaugust 2022: Throw a prompt into the hat

1 Aug 202227 Jul 2022
I sometimes have an idea what I could rant about or so, but then forget about it again later. I thought that maybe we could help each other out during…
Blogging Months…

Steam Summer Sale 2022 Pickings

1 Aug 2022
This year's summer sale on Steam was not bad, actually. It just turned out that for me, there wasn't anything I wanted despite my long wishlist! But I have the…
Blogging Months…

Blaugust 2022: Here we go!

1 Aug 202227 Jul 2022
It is time for another Blaugust! If you're not familiar with it: Blaugust is a challenge and a community event (the link leads to our Discord channel). We're trying to…
Guild Wars 2

GW2: Changes to some World Bosses

20 Jul 2022
I was wondering how extensive the announced changes would be that ArenaNet patched in on Tuesday. Great Jungle Worm, Shadow Behemoth, Fire Elemental and Svanir Shaman Chief had their health…
Games…

My impressions from Steam Next Fest (June 2022)

22 Jun 202222 Jun 2022
Another Steam Next Fest featuring lots of game demos has come and gone. I tried to narrow down my selection this time, but ended up with too many games yet…
Community…

Krikket’s Variety Gamer Score

31 May 2022
Krikket over on Nerd Girl Thoughts wrote about a checklist of several gaming franchises to calculate your "variety gamer score", but she wasn't too happy with it as it was…
Characters/Classes…

How to return to LotRO?

20 May 202220 May 2022
I wanted to start this post by saying that I was surprised about the urge to return to Lord of the Rings Online, but honestly, I am not. This MMO…
Guild Wars 2

Short term goals in Guild Wars 2

10 May 2022
I am still loving the latest expansion for Guild Wars 2! It's just that with the small amount of gaming time that I have, I do not always decide to…
Guild Wars 2…

Which MMO has the most useless housing system?

10 Apr 2022
I saw this article on Massively Overpowered about useless housing systems in MMOs. Of course, this is a more or less subjective question, but that's why I liked reading about…
Cooking Recipes

Recipe: Baby Pancakes

1 Apr 2022
It's this time of the year again! The time where Nerdy Bookahs is a blog about cooking and baking for a full whole day. We tried our hands at making…
Guild Wars 2

GW2 End of Dragons: First Impressions

28 Mar 2022
First of all: There won't be story spoilers in the text. I hope the screenshots won't include story spoilers either. I tried to be careful with them! I currently have…
Charity

Ukraine Charity Game Bundles

24 Mar 202225 Mar 2022
Edit: The Fanatical Bundle is already sold out. Apparently, there was a limited amount of keys available only. I got the itch.io-charity bundle for Ukraine (this one is already over!)…
Fun!

11 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

12 Mar 2022
...and another year has passed. Nerdy Bookahs has been around for 11 years today and even though I stopped playing and writing about Guild Wars 2 in between, this game…
City-builder/Simulation Game…

Steam Next Fest (Feb 2022) – Part 2

7 Mar 2022
I wasn't sure I would find the time and enough demos to have a part 2, but here you go! I actually did manage to play through almost all demos…
City-builder/Simulation Game…

Steam Next Fest (Feb 2022)

25 Feb 202226 Feb 2022
It's time for another Steam Next Fest! This means that you can currently find a lot of demos for upcoming games on Steam. The event runs from February 21 to…
City-builder/Simulation Game…

Quick Impressions: Noble Fates

10 Feb 2022
Noble Fates is a colony building simulation game similar to RimWorld and Going Medieval, currently in Early Access on Steam. I recently bought it and despite liking "Lords and Villeins"…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (February 2022): Just One Percent

7 Feb 2022
The "Just One Percent" Project I love it when the blogosphere comes up with a gaming project like this! You can read about the origin of this idea in Krikket's…
City-builder/Simulation Game…

Colony building sims

31 Jan 20227 Feb 2022
Is it just me or are there more and more colony building simulation games* in development? Of course, I will be the last person to complain here because my first…
Games…

Feeling lost in Guild Wars 2

22 Jan 2022
I got to spend a bit of time in Guild Wars 2 again recently for the first time in months! But there is the feeling that I've been having almost…
Rift

Call to Action: Rift is getting updates again?

21 Jan 2022
I dared ask the question with the word "updates" - yes, plural! About a month ago, gamigo was teasing about Rift possibly getting something new. They said that in Q1…
Blogging Months…

Bloganuary: What is your favorite screenshot you’ve ever taken?

20 Jan 202220 Jan 2022
Finally another bloganuary prompt that fits to my blog! The original asks about a photo which doesn't quite fit. But screenshots are close enough, I guess. I don't really want…
Game Design…

Is there a game like Defiance?

13 Jan 2022
I stumbled upon a German article about which games died in 2021. One of them was Defiance / Defiance 2050. Now, I am not a fan of shooter games. The…
Games…

Most viewed blog posts in 2021

9 Jan 202210 Jan 2022
I think it's nice to take a look at the blog's stats once in a while, even if I don't care about hits much. As long as there are some…
City-builder/Simulation Game…

Games I’m looking forward to in 2022

9 Jan 202216 Jan 2022
My current list of games that I'm looking forward to this year has three games and one expansion... Not that many, although I am quite sure I will find a…

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    Housing in MMOs: Rift
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