Blogging Months… Screenshot Saturday: WoW Classic Launch 31 Aug 2019 Home again. This time for real. The image below was taken five minutes after WoW Classic launched. This was on the second German PvE server, Razorfen. We have since switched…
Blogging Months… Screenshot Saturday: 7 years of GW2 24 Aug 201925 Aug 2019 The first characters that were created during the headstart are celebrating their 7th birthday. Now my warrior is proudly wearing armor that's worth more than 700 gold only because of…
Blogging Months… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Why I stopped liking Guild Wars 2 24 Aug 2019 What to do when you're actually just waiting for your nostalgia trip to start in World of Warcraft Classic? I thought I'd like to advance my guardian further into Mirkwood.…
Blogging Months… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (August 2019): Who wants my money? 23 Aug 2019 Two Point Hospital announced their next DLC, Close Encounters, a couple of days ago. It'll release on August 29 and is currently on sale both at Steam and at Fanatical…
Blogging Months… First Impression Review: Equilinox 22 Aug 2019 This is probably not a "first impression" piece, since I've been playing Equilinox for 30+ hours by now. But I still think it deserves more attention than just a few…
Blogging Months… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (August 2019): Blaugust participants 18 Aug 201918 Aug 2019 Do you know when we had our last Bookahneer's Geekwatch? In June 2018. And before that, in September 2016! I tend to forget it exists... Less than two weeks of…
Blogging Months… Screenshot Saturday: Tropico 6 – again 17 Aug 2019 For some reason, the way I've played in Tropico 4 and 5 leads to bankruptcy and my Tropicans not voting for me anymore. In other words: Game over. I gave…
Blogging Months… Screenshot Saturday: Thunder Bluff 10 Aug 2019 Home again. Well, almost. This is only the stress test, but they kept the servers open for the weekend, so I'm taking advantage of it by trying all the classes…
Fluff… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Mounts in MMOs 7 Aug 2019 This post isn't about whether MMOs should have mounts or not. I love them and even Guild Wars 2 found a way to implement them in a meaningful way. However,…
Blogging Months… Screenshot Saturday: Mad Tower Tycoon 3 Aug 20194 Aug 2019 I had some trouble deciding which screenshot to show here today. I'd repeat myself showing more of Equilinox. Especially as I am preparing a little "first impressions" piece for the…
Characters/Classes… Screenshot Saturday: Levelling gear 20 Jul 2019 Is it just me or does the gear you get while levelling through any expansion of WoW generally look ridiculous? I remember back in classic WoW that I liked the…
Lord of the Rings Online… Screenshot Saturday: And Lotro… again 13 Jul 2019 It took me a long lone time, but my guardian finally reached level 60. To be honest, I was certain I'd lost interest in Lotro again. But I did log…
First Impression Review… First Impressions: ISLANDERS 7 Jul 2019 Excuse the caps, but that is how they spell the game's title: ISLANDERS. In case you've read my post about the summer sales and which games interest me: ISLANDERS (okay,…
Guild Wars 2… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Vertical maps 7 Jul 2019 For a while, I'd been very excitedly levelling my guardian in LotRO and was really happy when she'd gotten to level 50. But then, a few levels into Mines of…
Screenshot Saturday… Screenshot Saturday: Back to WoW 6 Jul 2019 Even in the current version of World of Warcraft, I feel nostalgic. I do have a Pandaren sitting at level 110 - I don't even remember playing her much as…
Games… Screenshot Saturday: One less in my pile of shame 22 Jun 2019 I don't even want to count how many unplayed games I have in my game libraries. Of course, there are a lot that I technically didn't even buy, because they…
Games… Screenshot Saturday: Unheard 15 Jun 2019 Unheard is a detective game that works with audio files only. That is, you have a map and can see where each "dot" (until you've tagged them with a name…
Characters/Classes… Warlock then and now 10 Jun 201910 Jun 2019 As I mentioned before, I decided to give the "old-school" World of Warcraft a try on a private server. Directly after playing a warlock over there, I went back to…
Games… Screenshot Saturday: Equilinox 8 Jun 2019 The past few days I've spent quite a bit of my gaming time playing Equilinox. It is a little indie game that simulates an ecosystem. You can put plants, trees,…
Elder Scrolls Online… Screenshot Saturday: Dragons 1 Jun 2019 Last weekend we went to Berlin to meet up with two Guild Wars 2 guild mates (from Greece and Poland, respectively). So, we had a very little international guild meeting!…
Paeroka's Ponderings… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Back to the roots…? 23 May 2019 I guess every MMO enthusiast has heard about WoW Classic by now. At the end of August, servers will open. A few months of playing the "good old World of…
Screenshot Saturday… Screenshot Saturday: A long loooong time ago 18 May 2019 This is a screenshot from 2006 showing my main character at the time, my undead warlock. Since it shows her with an uninteresting background, I strongly assume I took this…
Game Design… Screenshot Saturday: Spot the World Boss 11 May 2019 ArenaNet currently has a World Boss Event running where you get an extra chest for each world boss. I decided to jump into the game and kill a few world…
Elder Scrolls Online… Screenshot Saturday: Home in ESO 4 May 2019 I spent my morning trying to decide which small little house (Staple House) to buy in Elder Scrolls Online. The decision was between Twin Arches in Bangkorai and Autumn's-Gate in…
Games… Screenshot Saturday: Not a gaming-laptop 27 Apr 2019 It was Easter last weekend. Since we moved across the country, events like this mean travelling back to spend the holidays with my family. This also means not having my…
Rift… Screenshot Saturday: Returning to Rift? 13 Apr 2019 As gamigo announced the closure of Rift Prime, they also announced that we'd get a free level 65 booster. Us EU players aren't getting our Prime characters which, to be…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Screenshot Saturday: Dinosaurs! 6 Apr 2019 I am still playing Tropico 6 while trying to figure out which class to play in Grim Dawn, but my Parkasaurus game had an update yesterday and I had to…
City-builder/Simulation Game… First impressions: Tropico 6 31 Mar 2019 El presidente is back! Or La Presidenta, in my case! I know I complained about Tropico 5 and called it a waste of my money. I later did play through…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Screenshot Saturday: Tropico 6 release 30 Mar 2019 Tropico 6 finally released yesterday after the developers had postponed the initial launch (it was planned for January, I think). So far, I am greatly enjoying my time in the…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Screenshot Saturday: Busy building 23 Mar 2019 I've recently been in the mood to play relaxing games where I can pause as often as I like. Most of all, Cities: Skylines. The major problem was that I…
