Blogging Months… IntPiPoMo 2019 3 Nov 20193 Nov 2019 I realized it's November and once again, I won't have the time to commit to NaNoWriMo. I'd really hoped I could do so this year, but illnesses came in between…
Action RPG… Five games for a year 2 Nov 20192 Nov 2019 Naithin shared this writing prompt on the Blaugust Discord channel recently which, I admit, I only saw because I read Rakuno's answer. It's a fun one to think about, so…
Games… Gaming nostalgia: What about Guild Wars? 31 Oct 2019 I think it was Rift with their Prime server that started the nostalgia trip into the beginnings of several MMOs. Rift Prime launched in March 2018 and community-wise it was…
Board Game… Being excited about SPIEL Essen 24 Oct 2019 When writing this blog post, I tried to remember the correct term for "Gesellschaftsspiel" in English, but as Wikipedia tells me, there apparently is no equivalent other than "board game"…
Blood Legion Homelands… Fresh air in Guild Wars 2 20 Oct 2019 While I'm spending most of my time playing WoW Classic at the moment, I did not miss that Guild Wars 2 got a content update for the living story recently.…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Screenshot Saturday: Aven Colony 19 Oct 2019 Aven Colony has been on my wishlist for a very long time already. Whenever it was on sale, I would take a look and then decide that I didn't need…
Game Developers… What is ManaWorks going to be, I wonder… 4 Oct 2019 I woke up this morning to find the message from Mike O'Brien (soon-to-be former president of ArenaNet) saying farewell to ArenaNet and the Guild Wars (2) community. He did state…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Screenshot Saturday: Pizza Connection 3 28 Sep 201928 Sep 2019 A couple of weeks ago, we got all three Pizza Connection games in the GoG version from a PC magazine subscription. Since it's DRM-free, bookahnerk and I didn't even have…
Expansion… Lotro’s next expansion: Minas Morgul 26 Sep 201927 Sep 2019 We already knew (or could take a well-educated guess) that the next expansion would include the Stout-Axe dwarves which allow you to check "female" or "male" essentially giving us female…
Characters/Classes… Female Dwarf in Lotro 22 Sep 201924 Sep 2019 So, with the recent announcement of female dwarves being an option in Lotro with the addition of the Stout-Axe dwarves, I've been curious how they will implement it. To be…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Screenshot Saturday: Abandoned… 21 Sep 201921 Sep 2019 The Parkasaurus developers have added the first three missions to the game to test and play through. I did not like the first one too much. It is well done,…
World of Warcraft Still WoWing 14 Sep 2019 I have settled on a main in WoW with my warlock, but the hunter, priest and shaman are closely following. Since I want to play priest as a disc healer,…
Community… Real Neat Blogger Awards – from Indiecator 8 Sep 2019 I was tagged and asked to answer a few questions from Indiecator this time. Which one of your posts was the most fun to write? Why? Definitely the underwear fashion…
Characters/Classes… Paeroka’s Next Top Warlock 8 Sep 20198 Sep 2019 I know I previously claimed that my undead warlock in retail World of Warcraft never reached max level before Burning Crusade came out. But that's not true. She was actually…
Games Games I’ve been playing – August 2019 2 Sep 2019 I would like to keep this blog a little more active than it's been in the past months - with the exception of Blaugust, obviously. So while I still have…
Blogging Months… Last day of Blaugust 2019 31 Aug 2019 The number in my archive for August shows "32" (33 once I hit "publish" for this post). I didn't publish a blog post every day, but I had days with…
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… Guild Wars 2 Announcement 30 Aug 201930 Aug 2019 Here I am, disappointed with the recent development of Guild Wars 2. It's not a bad game, just not a good game for me anymore. But I am still watching…
Blogging Months… My least favourite classes to play 29 Aug 2019 Rakuno recently wrote about his least favourite class - or a class he refuses to play - and since I've now been pondering and wondering which class to play in…
Blogging Months… Excitedly waiting for an MMO launch 26 Aug 2019 Yesterday, Bookahnerk and I realized that we're as excited about the launch of WoW Classic as we haven't been in ages. I always loved this pre-launch excitement. Not when WoW…
Blogging Months… Mad Tower Tycoon and Project Highrise – What’s the difference? 25 Aug 2019 I bought Project Highrise back in 2016 and have played it for 54 hours. This number seems oddly low as I thought I'd sunk in much more time than that.…
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… Real Neat Blog Award questions from Rakuno 21 Aug 2019 There's the Real Neat Blog Award going around at the moment and I've been tagged by Rakuno - a couple of days ago, actually. So, here are my answers to…
Blogging Months… WoW: Ding 120 19 Aug 2019 My warlock finally hit level 120. In a previous post I accidentally claimed that she'd never hit level 60 back in vanilla which isn't true. She was my first level…
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… Cooking experiments: Noodles 16 Aug 2019 For years, bookahnerk's family went to this little Italian shop where the owners had a special recipe for pesto. They always bought their pesto there and sometimes even sent some…
