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…
Games… 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…
City-builder/Simulation Game… 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,…
Game Design… 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…
Fluff… 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…
Account Security… 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…
Game Design… 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…
Community… 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…
Games… 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…
Games 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…
Guild Wars 2 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
City-builder/Simulation Game… 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…
Blogging Months… 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,…
Guild Wars 2… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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,…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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… 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,…
Guild Wars 2… Screenshot Saturday: Being a rebel 1 Aug 2020 Yes, well... In her defence, she came from the other side!
Guild Wars 2 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
City-builder/Simulation Game… 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…
