Games… Favourite game intros 12 Nov 2020 A German streamer has a little series where he watches game intros with the viewers and they rate them together. While watching, I was wondering which game intros I personally…
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…
Blogging Months… What’s the point in housing? 25 Apr 2020 In a post musing about the problems with housing in MMOs, Roger from Contains Moderate Peril said that you can ask 100 players and will get 100 answers as to…
Blogging Months… MMOs that came and left since WoW launched 22 Nov 201922 Nov 2019 PC Gamer wrote about 25 MMOs that "lived and died" since the launch of WoW (originally published in May, advertised again recently). I assumed I'd see several in there that…
Fun!… MMOs are weird virtual worlds… – Where’s the toilet? 29 Jul 2019 With the exception of very few MMOs, there are simply no toilets or just in general bathrooms in MMOs. Apparently, there is no need for hygiene? From the top of…
Blogging Months… Now for real: Goodbye, Wildstar 27 Nov 20182 Dec 2018 I just logged into Wildstar - for the last time, I guess, as the game is shutting down tomorrow. I wanted to take a few last screenshots of the characters…
Screenshots… Goodbye, Wildstar 8 Sep 20188 Sep 2018 It did not come as a surprise when I saw that Wildstar is shutting down - and the developer studio, Carbine, as well. Even though at the beginning of the…
Fun!… Personal Top 9 of 2016 12 Jan 201729 Jun 2020 I have seen several people and gaming sites make their "top x games of 2016" and when wondering which games I would put on my list, I thought: "Oh well,…
Blogging Months… Quality of Life changes in Wildstar (Blaugust Post 11) 13 Aug 2016 Carbine made a list of the top 10 Quality of Life changes that they will take a look at. I can see two that stand out for me already: Account-wide…
Wildstar Wildstar E3 Pack: Gnix pet and Hoverboard 13 Jun 201613 Jun 2016 No, one can never have enough hoverboards. At least not in Wildstar. :p Humble Bundle is selling the "E3 2016 Digital Ticket" with lots of goodies and a couple of…
Guild Wars 2… Help! I like too many MMOs… 24 Apr 201624 Apr 2016 In the past few weeks, I thought I had finally fallen out of love with Rift. It was to a point where I did not even log in anymore to…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (April 2016) 17 Apr 201617 Apr 2016 Fragmented, the "little brother" of The Repopulation will officially arrive in Steam Early Access soon, on April 26. If you already own The Repopulation, you will get Fragmented for free…
Fluff… Wildstar’s Jumpstart Pack – Is it worth the price? 19 Mar 20161 May 2016 I only just wrote about Wildstar's housing and wondered whether you could get the housing teleporter and now they added it to their store for the cost of 720 NCoins.…
Game Design… Housing in MMOs: Wildstar 13 Mar 2016 The first parts of this series were posted a long time ago, but I recently stumbled over one of them again and figured I should add Wildstar to this list.…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (February 2016) 16 Feb 201616 Feb 2016 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…