Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (November 25, 2014) 25 Nov 201418 Jan 2015 Welcome to today’s Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! The place about miscellaneous interesting gaming news. There was no new update today in Guild Wars 2, but as is custom on the non-update Tuesdays,…
Guides… Trove: Biomes and their map colours 21 Nov 201424 Sep 2016 Update September 2016: I included the latest biome, Jurassic Jungle. Update September 2015: I finally found the time to update all the pictures! There had apparently been enough complaints about…
Characters/Classes… Trove: Candy Barbarian revelead! 15 Nov 201415 Nov 2014 Trion Worlds made a news post revealing the candy barbarian yesterday. Or rather, revealing the skills that new class will have. We already know its name, after all. :) I'm…
Fun! Away to game… 13 Nov 2014 After some careful consideration - no, actually, it was an easy and fast decision. Something that's still been on my mind for the last two or three days, though. I…
Games GOG Fall Sale and guilty pleasure games 12 Nov 2014 I have just made some wintery cookies (with chocolate and hazelnuts) that taste a bit like (German) Lebkuchen. This hasn't been my intention, by the way. It does make me…
Trove Trove: Movember Madness Bundle 11 Nov 201411 Nov 2014 Trove received another patch today: Mustache and Mushroom Edition. You can find the patch notes on the official forum. First things first, they have added a limited time bundle. Get…
Guild Wars 2… Are you concerned about getting spoilers? 10 Nov 2014 Heads-Up: I'm trying to be as vague as possible when I touch the area of the story and will not talk about the actual content! When the latest piece of…
Housing… My personal oasis in Rift 9 Nov 20149 Jan 2015 With the new expansion, Rift added the "Minions" mini game. I won't go into how the "game" - let's rather call it "activity" - works. I will save that for…
Game Design… Diversity in regional design: Spring 8 Nov 20148 Nov 2014 I really love spring in "real life". When the sun starts to feel warm on your skin again. The snow is melting (if there had been some). The first birds…
Game Design… Class names and expectations 7 Nov 2014 I was just baking some bread while listening to a Trove stream (this one, to be precise) when the streamer was asked if Trove was going to add a healing…
Fluff… Trove Robo Raptor mount 6 Nov 20146 Nov 2014 Sometimes, I can't believe my luck. I had a look at the dev trackers I'm following earlier today (for Guild Wars 2, Trove and Rift) and saw this post where…
Guild Wars 2… My gaming update 6 Nov 2014 Day no. 6 and I already need to add a "filler post". I had planned to post about my dimension in Rift tonight, but due to a horrible back ache,…
Games in Development… Trove Open Beta has started! 5 Nov 20146 Nov 2014 I've been rather busy today with meetings, heated discussions - you know, the usual. So, I am not in the mood to do the blog post I had thought about…
Characters/Classes… Hello there, do I know you? 4 Nov 2014 Perfect timing from Blizzard... Just when I feared I would have nothing to write about on the 4th day of NaBloPoMo, they sent me an email reminder that the offer…
Guild Wars 2… I am the “eternal soldier” kind of Guild Wars 2 player 3 Nov 2014 ArenaNet currently offers Guild Wars 2 for 50 % off until November 9 - and to celebrate that (or in order to direct more people to that site, I guess),…