City-builder/Simulation Game… Games I’ve been playing in March ’21 4 Apr 2021 I know of several other bloggers who write about the games they've been playing - most recently I read Rakuno's post. Since I haven't spent that much time in any…
Games… GoG “Soon to Bloom” and Coffee Noir 28 Mar 202128 Mar 2021 Steam's Game Festival with game demos seems to be a successful concept, seeing how GoG has started their own one now, the "Soon to Bloom" Spring Sale (going until April…
Fun!… 10 years of Nerdy Bookahs! 13 Mar 202113 Mar 2021 It's hard to believe that this blog has been active for 10 years now. Before that, I blogged a bit on Livejournal and that was only about World of Warcraft…
Crystal Ball… Happy 10th birthday, Rift…? 11 Mar 2021 Rift launched on March 1, 2011 which means that it's currently "celebrating" its 10th anniversary! Or it should be, given it's such a nice round number! Trion Worlds was acquired…
Action RPG BlizzConline: Diablo II Resurrected – Gimme! 20 Feb 2021 My story with Diablo II is pretty short: I got the game as a present from bookahnerk after I'd said that I am interested in "roleplaying games" on the PC,…
Guild Wars 2 Things I’ve never done in Guild Wars 2 14 Feb 2021 I admit that I never liked playing norn. I do like them in general and I like their culture, but they are just so... huge and slow with their running…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Steam Game Festival (February ’21) – Part 2 8 Feb 2021 The second part has a few more visual novels/point and click games than the first one. But there are other genres as well! As is usual for me, these are…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Steam Game Festival (February ’21) – Part 1 6 Feb 20216 Feb 2021 I have been able to play through six of the 17 game demos that I've chosen and decided to share my thoughts about them with you. I will try to…
Games… Steam Game Festival: Feb 3 to Feb 9 4 Feb 2021 It is time for yet another Steam Game Festival - running from February 3 (so yes, it is already live!) to February 9. Participating (indie) developers are letting you play…
Game Design… A look at Project Gorgon (Jan 2021) 31 Jan 202131 Jan 2021 The comment by bhagpuss in my recent post about railroading in MMOs made me want to play a sandbox MMO again: "I do find it ironic that Classic WoW is…
Paeroka's Ponderings… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Railroading in MMOs 24 Jan 2021 It took me a long time until I could finally step into the Shadowlands expansion in World of Warcraft. And I am immediately longing for WoW Classic again (well, the…
Lord of the Rings Online… Warhammer Online in 2021 3 Jan 2021 After actually first forgetting to add Return of Reckoning (the private server that still lets us play Warhammer Online today) to the list of MMOs I've been playing in 2020…
City-builder/Simulation Game… My favourite games in 2020 30 Dec 2020 When I started thinking about this list earlier this year, I was certain that Old World would be at the top. With the amount of time I had spent playing…
Elder Scrolls Online… My MMOs in 2020 25 Dec 202025 Dec 2020 No new MMO has made it on my list this year. I did give New World a try, but ultimately ended up not liking it. It's okay and I am…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Involuntary gaming break 13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 I've been feeling rather unwell lately and it comes with me being unable to play games most of the time. So much fun! Thankfully, it's the holiday season and I…
Atlas Rogues… The first days with Atlas Rogues 21 Nov 2020 Atlas Rogues came into Early Access on November 18. Since then, I have played several matches with the four starting freelancers and my current conclusion is that I would not…
Games First glimpse on Atlas Rogues’ gameplay 14 Nov 2020 On Friday, Gamigo had their first livestream showing the new Atlas Rogues game. If you remember the Trion Friday livestreams, then this is exactly what it was like! They also…
Games… Favourite game intros 12 Nov 2020 A German streamer has a little series where he watches game intros with the viewers and they rate them together. While watching, I was wondering which game intros I personally…
Characters/Classes… Necromancer or Revenant for rediscovering Guild Wars 2… 8 Nov 20208 Nov 2020 After writing here that I want to replay through the old zones of Guild Wars 2 with my new necromancer, I decided to take a look at the revenant. A…
Lord of the Rings Online… Screenshot Saturday: Haunted Burrow 7 Nov 2020 I finally found the time to take a stroll through the Haunted Burrow in LotRO. I forgot that there are a few - harmless - jump scares. And the cobwebbed…
Guild Wars 2 Replaying vanilla Guild Wars 2 4 Nov 2020 I previously tried to get into the necromancer, the thief and the ranger again. For some reason, when I don't play a class for some time, I forget about the…
Community… [Civ VI] Long Live the Queen! – Turns (341-350) 3 Nov 2020 It's been quite some time since I last played our succession game - and Rakuno handed the reign over to me quite some time ago as well. I really don't…
Crystal Ball… Guild Wars 2: Roadmap for the next 7 months 1 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 I was so happy to see ArenaNet post a roadmap for the game. Even though I fully expect the possibility of delays (as it says: "subject to change"), it is…
Atlas Rogues… Atlas Rogue: Early Access on November 18 29 Oct 2020 Early Access for Atlas Rogue will start on November 18. After looking at all my previous screenshots I realized that I did actually play a lot of PvP... during the…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Early Access games I’m invested in (October 2020) 25 Oct 2020 I feel it's time to take a look at my early access games again. I tend to not play them too much and wait for the release because I don't…
Turn-Based Games Atlas Reactor Revival… of sorts? 18 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 I just saw the news on Massively and squealed when I read the article: "The so-called Alliance project uses the same gameplay of Atlas Reactor but in a narrative-focused four-player…
World of Warcraft WoW Classic or Retail? 15 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 It is a bit ironic that I returned to WoW because of its classic version, but I am staying in WoW now because of the retail version. If we had…
Elder Scrolls Online… Which MMO does Halloween best? 13 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 I really like the autumn and halloween events in MMOs! When I saw ArenaNet announce the date for their Halloween event (it starts today, by the way) for Guild Wars…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Steam Game Festival: Simulation Games 12 Oct 2020 As I mentioned in my previous post, some of the demos I tried there were already simulation games, but they were also listed as strategy games. There is sometimes a…
Games… Steam Game Festival: Strategy Games 11 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 As I said, I went and looked at the strategy and simulation demos of Steam's Game Festival. This post now is about the strategy games I found interesting at first…
