Bloganuary 2023: What do you want to achieve this year?

3 Jan 2023

Wordpress is hosting another Bloganuary. A lot of their prompts don't fit the focus of this blog, but sometimes it works. The first prompt they sent was: "What do you…

Wrapping up Blaugust 2022

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

I had never intended to write as many blog posts as I did this month! Originally, I had just hoped to write more than I have in the past few…

Quick Impressions: Hamster Playground

31 Aug 2022

I don't remember when and how I stumbled over this game's trailer, but it was so cute, it certainly stuck to my mind! And I also had to show it…

Guild Wars 2: I finally got myself a dog

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

After sleeping a night on it, it was obvious that I just had to get the Desert Shiba mount skin. I actually love the Springer mount as it is, but…

Guild Wars 2: Free mount skin for (some) players

30 Aug 2022

As part of the game's 10th anniversary, ArenaNet is giving a "Black Lion Special Mount Selection Licence" to players which lets you choose one mount skin from a whole range…

Re-experiencing Guild Wars 2 on Steam

29 Aug 202229 Aug 2022

Guild Wars 2 has officially and quite successfully launched on Steam. It's currently got a "Very Positive" rating on there with its base game being free to play. Some restrictions…

Screenshot Saturday: Restarting Guild Wars 2

27 Aug 2022

I decided to take a look at Guild Wars 2 from a beginner's point of view. That is, with a fresh clean Steam account that doesn't own anything! It took…

Gamescom 2022: More game demos Part 2

26 Aug 2022

As I said in my previous game demo post, I had more on my list. So here are three more games that I gave a try. Garden Simulator If you…

Gamescom 2022: More game demos

25 Aug 2022

Ah yes, Gamescom 2022 is here and with that, we're getting game demos again! I've set my eyes on trying out more than just these three demos. But since I've…

LotRO: Disappointing Housing

22 Aug 2022

I know I am ranting about the same topic over and over again: The player housing feature in Lord of the Rings Online is just disappointing. They have been improving…

Which MMO mount do you like using the most?

21 Aug 202221 Aug 2022

Justin from MassivelyOP asked this question in their column "The Daily Grind" and rather than leaving a comment there, I prefer answering this question here. I do go with mounts…

Screenshot Saturday: Back to Wow… again… again… again

20 Aug 2022

After being away for a year, I decided to return to WoW Classic. My initial goal had been to level my mage and get her through Burning Crusade. But that…

Guild Wars 2 is coming to Steam!

16 Aug 2022

Just in time for the game's 10th anniversary (most certainly not a coincidence), Guild Wars 2 will launch on Steam - on August 23, to be precise. If you haven't…

New adventures in LotRO?

16 Aug 2022

Since the legendary server Anor is going to close in a few months, we can move the characters off the server for free. So that's what friends and I did…

Screenshot Saturday: Time well spent

13 Aug 2022

Parkasaurus officially released their first DLC "Sea Monsters". I got to test it (us testers got to keep the DLC afterwards, so yay! But they did not ask me to…

Blogging and me

12 Aug 2022

I got inspired to write about my blogging history after reading Naithin's post about his. This blog right here, Nerdy Bookahs, turned 11 years old in March. But it wasn't…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bloganuary: What do you like most about your writing?

8 Jan 20228 Jan 2022

I first misunderstood this prompt because I didn't see the "your" at first. I wound have said that other then the interaction with other gamers, I like practicing my English…

Bloganuary: Who inspires you and why?

6 Jan 2022

Another bloganuary prompt that fits to my blog. Most of the time, I get my inspiration from the games I'm playing, obviously, or from what developers and publishers are saying…

Quick Impressions: Jurassic World Evolution 2

30 Nov 202130 Nov 2021

I actually find it difficult to even write any quick first impressions, because I don't know if the disappointment will stay or not. But it certainly is tied to the…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: When is a game too cheap?

29 Nov 2021

Quite obviously, developers need to make a living, so they do need to earn enough to pay for rent, food, health insurance and all that other nonsense that people like…