Archive

February 2018

• Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – The Latecomer Review

January 2018

• The MMO Subscription Cull: 2018 Edition
• FFXIV: Making Good on a Promise
• The Great PC Rebuild

December 2017

• My MMO Picks for 2018
• The Next Diablo: a Hybrid and Mobile MMO?

November 2017

• Blizzard Engineering: The Nuggets from Blizzcon
• WoW Communities: Create Your Own Realm?
• Battle for Azeroth - First Thoughts
• WoW Classic - How It Might Work

October 2017

• That Destiny 2 PC Banwave

August 2017

• Destiny 2: PC Beta First Impressions
• Destiny 2: Cautious Optimism
• Broadband Blunders & Mac Machinations
• Dauntless Founders Alpha Preview
• Path of Fire - a Delicious Demo Experience
• Path of Fire - the Hopeful Skeptic

December 2016

• Developer Interaction By Design

September 2016

• Warcraft: Legion - Endgame Perfected?
• The Legion Dungeon Love-Affair

March 2016

• Crowdsourcing MMO Design
• Why VR Matters to Me
• The Changing Face of MMOs
• The Stardew Valley Fallacy

January 2016

• WildStar: Seeking an Artist

October 2015

• WildStar Free-to-Play Competition - The Winners!

September 2015

• WildStar Competition: Prepare for Free-to-Play!

March 2015

• Mission to Foostival

October 2014

• Guild Wars 2 Competition: The Winners!

September 2014

• Death of a Super-Genre
• Competition: Win Guild Wars 2 Swag!
• The Value of Opinion
• The High Price of Founding
• WildStar Swag Competition - The Winners!

August 2014

• Competition: Win WildStar Swag!

June 2014

• Warcraft: Skip to Next Track

February 2014

• In Memory: Judy Freeman

November 2013

• Luxuria Superbia: A Fontaine Fondle
• Mister Sparkles Mini: The Winners (Part 2)

October 2013

• Design a Golem, Win Mister Sparkles!
• Mister Sparkles Mini: The Winners (Part 1)
• Free to Play: Myth or Miracle?
• Pew Pew Pew! Weeeeeeeee-oooow!
• Upgrade Season
• WildStar: Rocket-Propelled Narrative
• Pin Your Hopes On It
• A Peek Inside The Room Two
• PlayStation 4: A Console for MMO Gamers?
• Competition: Win a Mini Mister Sparkles!

September 2013

• WildStar: The Combat Special Sauce
• WildStar: Ship Shape with Shiphands
• A Ticket to Los Santos
• Crafting and CREDD
• Powering a Million Idiot March
• Fork in the Road
• Marking Cards: A First Look at Hearthstone

August 2013

• WildStar: Down to Business
• Celebrating the Wrinkles

May 2013

• WildStar: The Flying Mount Frenzy

November 2012

• On the Shores of Lag

August 2012

• The Launch Day Blues

July 2012

• Ouya: Yes or No?

June 2012

• Building a Character: Bay Stuggs
• Extended Hiatus

May 2012

• Gaming: The Journey to Service Saturation
• "I'll Wait Till It's Free"
• Just Listen You Idiots!
• The Trans-Temporal MMO Sausage
• You Can Write Too!

April 2012

• Annual Pass: A Post Mortem
• Pre-Purchase for Beta

March 2012

• Guild Wars 2, Keybindings & Razer Naga
• Likes, Dislikes and Opinions
• Guild Wars 2: Spellcasters Quick Guide
• Ending The Saga: Mass Effect 3's Mistake
• Is this GAME Over?
• Sub-Humans and the Shallow End of Gaming
• My Annual Pass Regret
• And Now We Are Two

February 2012

• The Movement-Based MMO of the Future
• MMOs: The Changing Social Context
• Becoming The Nomad
• SWTOR Endgame: Fixed!

January 2012

• Replacing the Superficial Intelligence
• Getting Started with MMO Blogging
• My Struggle with Sandboxes
• LFD: No Simple Answers
• How SWTOR Will Make A Profit
• Utterly Gobsmacked
• SWTOR: The Retention Rate Question
• Access Denied?
• SWTOR: So Now What?
• The Best Raids: Past, Present Or Future?
• Pure DPS: The One True Class
• xBox: Security Is A Lie
• That 6AM Moment

December 2011

• To The Future!
• Questions To You: On Criticism
• SWTOR: The Broken Mess of Crew Skills
• Five Things To Do Before SWTOR Launch
• SWTOR Razer Naga Setup Guide
• My MMO Manifesto
• SWTOR Space Combat: Missed Opportunity
• Firelands Raid: In Review

November 2011

• How Beer Prevents the Zombie Apocalypse
• The Gaming Couple & Star Wars
• A Limit on Subscription MMOs?
• SWTOR: Graphics, Galleries and Gifts
• Star Wars: The Old Republic - First Impressions
• The Supermassive Beta
• The Unknown Warcraft Subscriber
• The Gates of Compelling Rewards
• The Necessity of End Game
• Mobile MMO Missteps

October 2011

• Looking Through The Mists
• The Declining MMO Market
• Hobbyists, Indies and the Doom Moment
• How Warcraft Will Never End
• The Kitten Standard Economy?
• No Competitions For You!
• Time to Change Quest Mechanics
• Personal Identity and WoW
• Review: Razer Naga Molten

September 2011

• Reminiscing Isn't What It Used To Be
• The Brutal End of MMOs
• MMOs: Heading in Three Directions
• Claiming Sanctuary From Griefers
• What Is Skill?
• Smile Week: Gold-Plated Memories
• Smile Week: Supermassive Systems
• Smile Week: Atmospherics & Acoustics
• Smile Week: Dialogue Options
• Smile Week: Incredible Ubiquity
• Engineer Gazimoff’s Smile Week
• In Defence of the Trifecta
• Free to Play: MMO Retirement?
• The MMO Blueprint

August 2011

• Google Cannot Make Good MMOs
• The Flaming Kitty Copter
• Fear of the Fansites
• The Lure of the Franchise
• Is It Fun?
• Style Is Everything?
• Getting the Most out of Game Time
• A Thoroughly European Convention
• Storybricks: Questions & Answers
• Storybricks: A First Look
• Playing DPS: From Good to Great
• Trading in Titan
• If Not You, Who Else?
• Rebuilding My Blogroll
• Review: PingCraft LagKiller (Part 1)

July 2011

• A House of Cards
• Tired of MMOs?
• Managing Guild Change
• The Infinite Trial

June 2011

• Firelands Legendary Staff: Get Ready!
• Karma As A Mechanic

May 2011

• PC Gaming Is Dead
• The Best Warcraft Smartphone
• What Is Hardcore?
• The Merits of Old Content
• Mages and Patch 4.2
• Warcraft, Rift and Fun
• Sony MMOs: An Uncertain Future

April 2011

• Designing My Own MMO
• Playing Cards at the Carnival
• Mages & PvP - Fun, Lethal, or Both?
• Cheering the Armchair Designer
• Bribes, Karma and Recommendations
• The Finished Next-Gen MMO Machine

March 2011

• An Appreciation of Developers
• Burnout By The Numbers
• Blueprint for a Next-Gen MMO Machine
• Building the Next-Gen MMO Machine
• My Folly Against The Entitlesloth
• Caster Legendary Staff: The Lowdown
• What Cataclysm Means to World PVP
• One Year Old!

February 2011

• Looking For Dramatic Change
• The Last MMO on the Street
• Comparing Mages: Warcraft Vs. Rift
• Managing Limited Game Time
• The Incredible Shrinking Raidgroup

January 2011

• Magic Mondays
• Encounters That Rock!
• Reader Q: From Arcane to Fire
• 5 Ways to Help The Warcraft Community
• Mages and Patch 4.0.6
• Warcraft Versus the Traditional MMO
• A Fashionable MMO?
• Justice Points Are Useless
• A Plethora of Podcasts
• Mage Stat Priority in 4.0
• Casual Is Not A Dirty Word
• An Obscure 2010

December 2010

• The Future of MMO Control
• Blog Azeroth Secret Santa
• My 3 Warcraft Christmas Wishes
• Coping with Cataclysm Heroics
• The Veteran Mage Toolbox
• Mage Resources Need You!
• Choose Your Mage: Alliance

November 2010

• Taking Better Screenshots
• Last Chance To See
• The Machine Behind The Curtain
• Mage Tier 11 Preview
• The Lament of Lost Adventures
• The Optional Extras

October 2010

• The Back Seat Guild Leader
• Ratings and Mage 4.0
• Where Did The Obscurecast Go?
• The Mage 4.0 Compendium
• A Socially Aware Warcraft?
• Authenticators: Busting the Myths

September 2010

• Becoming a Better Barker
• The Meta-Cataclysm
• The Impending Release
• Inspiration for A World
• Mementos and Keepsakes
• Getting the Guild Appeal
• Cataclysm UI: Mage Auras

August 2010

• Mages Making Money
• Of Polygons and Principles
• Entering The Youtubes
• Will My Computer Run Cataclysm?
• Beta Patch - The Pyromaniac's Impact
• The Quest Converyer Belt
• Under The Sea
• Entering Beta: The 80 Fire Mage
• New Mage Experience: Pt 1

July 2010

• The Beta Mage
• A Good Beta Tester?
• Mage Community Forums Now Live
• Calling All Mages!
• Games Within Games Within Games
• Early Look: Mage Talent Revamp
• The Growing Yet Shrinking World
• Website Wizardry... Ish
• Clearing My Head
• Casting Your Net Wide
• RealID - What The Forums?
• Polymorph or Polydeath?
• My You're a Tall One
• Cataclysm: New Mage Experience
• Cataclysm Gallery Time

June 2010

• The Pre-Raid Credit Check
• Review - Warcraft: MAGE
• Scorched Fingers
• The Flaming Boomerang
• Half-Baked
• Under the Hood
• Coming Back To Haunt Me
• A Matter Of Time
• Choose Your Weapons
• Gazimoff the Librarian
• My Diamond Shoes are Too Tight

May 2010

• The Jigsaw Man
• Getting Ready for Cataclysm
• Getting The Most from Refer-A-Friend
• Mixing Mage Mechanics
• The Spark of Excitement
• Blizzcon? I'm Virtually There
• The Composer and the Engineer
• Getting Real About Idents
• The Fresh 80 Mage: An Arcane Raiding Guide
• Cataclysm: My Rules of Engagement
• The Business with Bank Alts

April 2010

• An Interlude, with Music and Ice-Cream
• Getting Time To React
• The Dying High Street Retailer
• The Final Night Raiders Club
• A Snipe at the Socials
• The Colour of Money
• Mage Playstyles in Cataclysm
• Injecting Chaos
• Where Videogames Go To Die
• Mage Cataclysm Preview
• UI Quest: Cast Bars and Cool Downs
• Starting the Engine
• The Flow of Gold
• The Impossible Saronite
• A Moment to Review
• The Campaign for Cheese Sculpting

March 2010

• Finding Our Place
• Hitting the Reset Button
• Angry Mage is Angry
• UI Quest: Staying on Target
• Amusing the Muse
• Battling the Burnout
• Patch 3.3.3: Twisted Firestarter?
• The Crutches, They Do Nothing!
• Standing in Awe
• UI Quest: Mashing the Buttons
• The Annoyance of Addons
• So You're a Roleplayer?
• Care For Some Cheese With Your Whine?
• Escaping the Vortex of Suck
• Nostalgia Is A Double Edged Sword
• Charting the Curve of Awesome
• It's The People That Make It
• Evolution or Revolution?
• The Melee Misfit
• More on Mastery
• It's Only Taken Four Years
• An Architect of Archetypes
• Hit It Like You Mean It
• Being Late to the Party
• What the stat?
• Hello and Welcome!