My Top Games of the Decade

31 Dec 2019

Writing about my Top Games of 2019 was a bit too short-sighted, apparently. I have seen others talk about their games of the decade - most recently Rakuno's post. And…

Games I want to play again this year

4 Jan 201911 Jan 2019

I know that if there is one thing I don't have, it's time. Free time, that is, that I can devote to things like gaming. On the other hand, when…

Announcing: Trove & Defiance 2050 Giveaways

8 Jul 20188 Jul 2018

We just started a giveaway for Trove and Defiance 2050! The actual giveaway can be found on our usual giveaway page. So go over there in order to enter the…

Log in to your Trion games to save your names!

13 Jan 20183 Aug 2019

First things first: Trion is not deleting any characters or their progress! They are, however, deleting names of inactive characters. This means that if you have not logged in with…

Big Trion Giveaway – Win items for Trove, Rift and ArcheAge

23 Jul 201731 Jul 2017

The giveaway is closed. Please give us some time to check and double-check all entries, roll for the winners and send out the keys to said winners! Having had issues…

Win one of 10 Streamer Dream Boxes for Trove!

18 Mar 201727 Mar 2017

This giveaway is closed! Congratulations to the winners: Draven Lewis, Warnity, Bill, John Kes, Tahiruua, Chamzeh and Darryl Le Blanc! Trove recently launched its console versions (XBox One and Playstation 4) and in order to celebrate the…

Primalist and cross-promotions

8 Oct 20163 Aug 2019

All of Trion's own games (Defiance, Rift and Trove) are receiving some cross-promotion rewards when you log into their newest game, Atlas Reactor, this weekend (to be more precise, between…

Win 1 of 11 codes for Trove: Dino Tamers!

31 Aug 20163 Sep 2016

Update 2: Here are the winners. The Prehistoric Pack goes to Boazi. The early access codes for the Dino Tamers will be sent to CommanderCupsize, Irubor, Tortorion, ImaSnaaaaake, Louie, Mateus…

The Big “Trion Worlds Games” Giveaway

30 Jul 20166 Aug 2016

Update (August 6): The comments section is closed. We will draw the winners in a bit and will update you in this blog. As a welcome to the Content Creator…

Ask Nerdy Bookahs: March 2016

20 Mar 2016

It's time for another "Ask Nerdy Bookahs". We have looked through the search terms that led people to our blog for which we know we do not have fitting answers…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (28. February 2016)

28 Feb 2016

Fragmented, the game that the developers of "The Repopulation" are working on as a basis for the engine-switch of Repopulation, is entering closed testing soon. You can sign up and…

This weekend’s surprising highlight

14 Feb 2016

When I was thinking about what to do with this weekend (related to gaming, of course, not to other mostly RL stuff), I had a lot of games in my…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Spending money in Trion’s games

29 Jan 2016

A side note first: I am very late with continuing the "Blogging 101" challenges, as I did not have any good ideas for some of the last tasks. Blogging 101…

2015 in screenshots

19 Jan 2016

As I previously said, Haffle's "Screenshots Of The Year 2015" post inspired me to do something like this myself. Instead of going by game, I will try to go through…

My personal top 5 of 2015

21 Dec 201521 Dec 2015

I like lists and it just seemed appropriate to put a "top 5" list here for the games that caught my attention the most in 2015. As I said in…

Rift and Trove are giving me… SAB?

15 Dec 2015

Us poor Guild Wars 2 players have been yearning to set foot into SAB (Super Adventure Box) again for months now and it doesn't look as if we'd get it…

Ask Nerdy Bookahs: Guild Wars 2 Edition (September 2015)

13 Sep 2015

It's time for another "Ask Nerdy Bookahs". We have looked through the search terms that led people to our blog for which we know we do not have fitting answers…

Backing games – Blaugust Day 27

25 Aug 201523 Aug 2015

In general, I am quite cautious when it comes to backing games before they are released. Or so I thought. When preparing to write this post, I collected the games…

Mastery Rank 100!

23 Aug 2015

I've been working towards this goal ever since Trion introduced chaos coins! A chaos coin can be used to increase your account's "chaos factor" by 1. For every chaos factor,…

Ask Nerdy Bookahs: Trove Edition – Blaugust Day 26

23 Aug 2015

It's time for another "Ask Nerdy Bookahs". We have looked through the search terms that led people to our blog for which we know we do not have fitting answers…

Let me show you all my mini-mes – Blaugust Day 20

17 Aug 201516 Aug 2015

Apparently, it has been almost two years since I have last shown you all my virtual "mini-me"s. I figured that Blaugust is the perfect month to give you an updated…

Trove News (August 1, 2015) – Blaugust Day 1

1 Aug 20154 Aug 2015

(Update August 4, 2015: The patch with the inventory expansion will go live today. You can find the patch notes in the official forum. Most important piece of information: When…

Trove: Trading Post Exploits and contacting support

26 Jul 2015

Just a short post, because I think it is important. There is an exploit that is apparently used by some players (hopefully soon to be ex-players) in Trove. I do…

Summary of the Trove AMA with Avarem

17 Jul 2015

First of all, for those who aren't interested in Trove: Please excuse the "imbalance" here in this blog recently. But I'm sure that every gamer understands the excitement when a…

Post-launch Impressions: Is Trove a good game?

12 Jul 201523 Aug 2019

Trove launched last Thursday and a lot of people are curious whether this game is any good. I will try to give you an impression of the game, but will…

Trove: Pre-launch patch

7 Jul 201528 Feb 2016

In a few hours, the pre-launch patch will be deployed. You can find the full patch notes in the official forum. I am not going to rehash every little note…

Trove Carpet Mount Giveaway

3 Jul 20159 Jul 2015

The giveaway is now closed and random.org decided that the first comment is the winner. Congratulations to kiMah. I will send you the code in a few minutes. :D A…

Getting started in Trove: A few helpful tips

29 Jun 201516 Jul 2015

With the game's officially launching this July 9, I thought it could be helpful to provide a few tips to get you started! Especially since you can already create an…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (June 2015)

24 Jun 2015

Welcome to Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! This is the place where we take a look at all those little pieces of gaming news that have attracted our interest and talk about what's…

Trove will launch on July 9

4 Jun 20154 Jun 2015

Every player probably knows at least one of those games who seemingly stay in open beta for an eternity. Some wondered whether Trove will be one of those games. However,…