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…
Characters/Classes… 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…
Community… [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…
Action RPG… Vacation Gaming Goals 18 Jul 202018 Jul 2020 Plans were made, then Corona happened. Instead of getting to visit my Greek friends, we're staying home. I already had some vacation days while bookahnerk worked. These were basically to…
Blogging Months… Playing a random game: Democracy 3 12 Jul 202012 Jul 2020 Thanks to the various integrations available, GoG Galaxy shows me all the games I own on GoG, Battle.net, Origin, Steam, Twitch, Epic and Uplay as well as Guild Wars 2.…
Elder Scrolls Online… My MMOs in July 2020 8 Jul 2020 I am still pondering whether to continue with WoW Classic or not. The lack of Burning Crusade is just too severe for me and I really want my Draenei mage!…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Send help! – Games I’ve been playing in June 3 Jul 2020 I bought both Project Hospital and Old World a couple of weeks ago. One evening, I couldn't decide if I wanted to play Project Hospital or continue playing Old World.…
Action RPG… Steam Summer Sale 2020 30 Jun 2020 The Steam Summer Sale has started - in case there's any gamer left that hasn't noticed! I wanted to take advantage of the additional 5 € off when you buy…
Games… Steam Game Festival: Demo marathon Part 2 28 Jun 202029 Jun 2020 This is part 2 about the demos from the Steam Game Festival. I already wrote about the ones that didn't make it onto my wishlist, so let's switch to the…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Screenshot Saturday: You can save after… 27 Jun 2020 I treated myself to another city-building game, The Universim. There isn't much to say about the game yet as I only started playing. But it was late and I wanted…