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…

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…

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…

Steam Game Festival: Gladiator Guild Manager

10 Oct 202010 Oct 2020

I tried out one game on the first day of the current Steam Game Festival and then almost forgot about it again. Thankfully, Magi's post was a good reminder. And…

First Impressions Review: Not For Broadcast

4 Oct 20204 Oct 2020

Not For Broadcast is currently in Early Access. The first few episodes are available to play through already, but there is more to come. The developers offer a free prologue,…

Why I stopped loving Rift

3 Oct 20203 Oct 2020

Justin from Massively came up with a really good question about why Rift didn't do better. Quite obviously, I cannot answer this question in general or even for the majority…

Trove: Get the Marooned Hammerhead Ally

3 Oct 20203 Oct 2020

It's gamigo's 20th anniversary and at least for Trove, they've currently got a code that will get you a nice ally, the Marooned Hammerhead. The ally itself gives you 2…

Return to Guild Wars now!

1 Oct 2020

As Massively notes, Guild Wars (1) doesn't require a character name to log in anymore. Well, in my case, the recent change doesn't make a difference. I always kept screenshots…

Favourite Game Theme Songs

20 Sep 2020

I usually turn off the music in games nowadays, but there are a few where I need the music no matter what! And for other games, the main theme is…

A friendly competition

19 Sep 202019 Sep 2020

I found this post in my drafts. It was originally written back in 2014 and should have been the teaser post for a roleplaying event in our Guild Wars 2…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Gamescom 2020 – What’s the verdict? What did you discover?

12 Sep 2020

Altogether, I was very happy with the online version of gamescom. Having moved away, we aren't able to go to gamescom anymore and we probably wouldn't even go if we…

New games I’m playing this September

11 Sep 202012 Sep 2020

I kind of went a little overboard with new games, I guess. It must have been the post-gamescom-excitement! Or the fact that it was my birthday and felt like pampering…

GW2: Ascended Armor 2/3

9 Sep 20209 Sep 2020

How late exactly am I? I finally finished my second ascended armor set. That is, my mesmer got her cloth version... years ago, I guess. For a long time, I…

Promptapalooza No. 20: Tell us about some of your hobbies outside of the realm of your specific niche

29 Aug 2020

This is part of the Promptapalooza. Today's prompt comes from Ace Asunder: "Tell us about some of your hobbies outside of the realm of your specific niche." One of my…

Gamescom Indie Arena Booth – More demos

28 Aug 202028 Aug 2020

Gamescom started! And since we can't go there physically, gamescom is coming to us instead, virtually. I don't mind at all, though, since Cologne is too far away from us…

Promptapalooza No. 24: The origin of my online name

23 Aug 2020

This Promptapalooza prompt was shared by Magi from Indiecator: "How did you get the name that you regularly go by online, and what if anything does it mean?" Years ago,…

Screenshot Saturday: Fighting Drakkar

22 Aug 2020

I know, I am very late to this fight, but I have never actually done that one before. As always, I hated the amount of boom, bam and colours and…

First impressions of Parkasaurus 1.0

22 Aug 202024 Aug 2020

I didn't put it in the subject line, but this is a post for Promptapalooza: Write that one post you wanted to write so often, but always postponed. Finally do…

Promptapalooza No. 16: My earliest memory of Guild Wars

15 Aug 202016 Aug 2020

This Promptapalooza prompt was shared by Syp from Bio Break: "What is your earliest memory related to one of your core fandoms?" I decided to tell you about Guild Wars,…

Promptapalooza No. 11: Tell us about your physical creative space

15 Aug 2020

The 11th Promptapalooza prompt came from Krikket on Nerd Girl Thoughts. "Tell us about your physical creative space, and how it influences your content creation." Obviously, I did clean up…

Promptapalooza Prompt No. 10: What’s your process when creating a blog post?

9 Aug 2020

This year, we are not doing a traditional Blaugust trying to write 31 blog posts in a month. Instead, we're sharing blogging prompts, one each day. Yesterday's prompt came from…

Promptapalooza No. 8: Share characters that tell us something about you

8 Aug 202023 Aug 2020

This is a post belonging to the Promptapalooza. I'm using Tessa's prompt: "Share characters that tell us something about you." I've found this prompt rather difficult at first because I…

Promptapalooza No. 6: Tell us about your favourite quote

8 Aug 2020

I've been very busy with work, as I expected. So the blog had to suffer. But here's me trying one of the prompts of Promptapalooza. This one was posted by…

Games I’ve played in July

2 Aug 2020

Our vacation is over now and work will start again on Monday. The weather wasn't as bad as we had feared, but far from what I would call "summer". So,…

Screenshot Saturday: Being a rebel

1 Aug 2020

Yes, well... In her defence, she came from the other side!

Jumping into Path of Fire again

31 Jul 2020

For some weird reason, I suddenly felt the urge to play Guild Wars 2 again. Since I am now focusing on the warrior and had only played through the expansion…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (July 2020)

29 Jul 202029 Jul 2020

If you still play LotRO, then you probably haven't missed their recent server issues. We still don't really know what happened, but it went on for a long time. Now…

Early Access games I’m invested in (July 2020)

20 Jul 202028 Jul 2020

I am usually careful about which games I decide to support by buying into Early Access. And yet, over the years, there've been more and more added to my game…

I have finally chosen a main character for Guild Wars 2

20 Jul 202020 Jul 2020

Since before the game's launch (August 2012), I've been switching between the mesmer and the warrior as my main characters, not knowing which one to choose and focus on. I…

[Civ VI] Long Live the Queen! – Turns (261-270)

19 Jul 202019 Jul 2020

Naithin had the idea to start a Civ VI succession game and I jumped at the chance to participate! The rules, short and sweet (you can read all of them…