Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesCapped — Now What?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008As you can probably tell from some recent posts, I’m kind of maxed out in WoW right now. I currently have a level 70 Tauren Shaman with 375/375 Alchemy/Enchanting, my epic flying mount, and a mix of Tier 4 and 5 gear with a smattering of the Tier 6 equivalent badge loot. My only serious […]
Design Considerations for Gaming With a Disability
Monday, April 28th, 2008I wanted to take a moment and point out this latest Massively article I wrote, just in case you don’t watch that feed. I think it’s an important story for a number of reasons, and I think that it’s something to think about for both players and designers. It was a really eye-opening experience to […]
More News About Age of Conan
Friday, April 25th, 2008Keen is pretty upset about a lot of the Age of Conan features mentioned in the recent IGN preview for the game, to the point where he in Graev actually considered whether they wanted to be playing it at all. Given the marketing messages so far and the discussion we’ve had about the game over […]
This Raiding Thing is Serious Business
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Kendricke warned me that serious raiding on a casual basis is pretty much impossible, and it turned out that he was right. My tight-knit World of Warcraft guild recently merged with another tight-knit guild and made a new, combined leadership council to lead us into the 25-man realm of SSC, TK, and Hyjal (and eventually […]
38 Studios Is Starting to Look Pretty Interesting
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Schilling’s 38 Studios has had an impressive team from the get-go (going back to when they were GMG), but they’ve stayed mostly under my radar just because they have nothing concrete to say about their game yet. While I was busy not paying attention to them (beyond what Ryan posts on his blog), they’ve apparently […]
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Thursday, April 17th, 2008I was ridiculously psyched to see this post on WoW Insider today. Quote:
Bornakk confirmed in a thread yesterday that we really won’t be seeing quite as large a gear gap in the jump from Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King as we did in the past: No more doubling of stamina values this […]
Raiding, Writing, and Writhing
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008I’ve been pretty busy lately between the job-juggling, finishing school (that’s where the writhing comes in), and being part of a serious raiding guild for the first time in a long time. It’s fun, and my gear on my shaman (Lagrish) is rapidly approaching what could be described as “sick,” which is only a few […]
Secret Project — Revealed!
Monday, April 14th, 2008Today I wanted to unveil the big news that I was keeping under my hat for a while: Mr. Michael Zenke (whom you may know as a top 50 games journalist and rogue demon hunter) has persuaded me to come and write a daily MMOG column for Massively! I think the guys and gals at […]
A Little Fallout 3 Theory-Crafting
Thursday, April 10th, 2008I don’t have time for a full-length post today, but there was one thing I saw on Joystiq that I thought was interesting and worth mentioning. One of the games I’ve been eagerly anticipating is Fallout 3. I saw an article in which Pete Hines claimed that the total number of possible endings was over […]
WoW Has Peaked? Maybe… But It’s Blizz’s Fault
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008The big news today is Jack Sorenson (Head of Development at THQ) remarking that World of Warcraft has peaked, as far as he’s concerned:
Speaking to Eurogamer at the Gamer’s Day event in San Francisco last week, Sorenson said, “However long it takes World of Warcraft to go through its cycle there will always be people […]