Earlier in the month I was moaning about the Storm Legion expansion for Rift. I had not been actively avoiding the game.  But whenever I was looking for a game to play, I would get to Rift, give a little dejected moan internally, and move on to something else. I just wasn’t that into it, [...]

Well, the party did not last too much longer. There was apparently some attempt at deception in declaring the Burn Jita event over before everybody went home in hopes of luring some more freighters back into the system.  But things now appear really over. Image source: the internet… I forget where exactly.  Sorry. The tally [...]

Apps for editing and modifying pictures seem to abound in Apple’s App Store.  You can spend a long time wandering through that section. But while I find many of these apps interesting, I don’t actually use my iPad to take pictures.  To start with, the iPad is kind of bulky.  And then there is the [...]

I did not spend too much time tanking this past weekend, and when I did, I was focused on the KV-4.  Thanks to it being a double crew experience weekend I managed to get all of the crew, save that one lagging loader, into their second skill/perk. On the advice of many, I went with [...]

Lord of the Rings Online is in the midst of its six year anniversary celebrations. Six years ago Vanguard was sputtering along, with Brad McQuaid speaking up about all the problems as I was speculating on how they might get out of their mess. (And two of those came to pass.)  I was past level [...]

Why stop the party when it is going so well? Sure, the invite said April 19-21, but everybody is still having fun, nobody has any place better to be, and the targets keep wandering into the system, oblivious to their fate.  So it looks like ganks will keep on well into the work week. All [...]

No new tanks this week.  I am still building up credits for the KV-4. I actually have more than enough credits right now to purchase the beast, but I also want some reserves for the usual equipment, like a large caliber gun rammer.  And that adds up fast.  So I continue with my credit accumulation [...]

I was just peeking in to see how the Camelot Unchained Kickstarted campaign was doing when the screen updated from $996K to one million dollars.  Mark Jacobs is no doubt a happy man at the moment. That puts the campaign at the half way point just eight days in, which was a bit faster than [...]

The Age of Empires II – HD Edition went live on Steam yesterday, and is a perfect example of what I meant when I wrote about games I would like to see revamped. It offers up what I would call “quality of life” improvements such as: Re-mastered for high resolution displays 1080p+. Enhanced visual engine [...]

CCP, as part of their 10 year anniversary celebrations, has a new site up about the EVE Timeline. The site details the background story… the lore, if you will… of the game, the histories of the major factions, and how it ties in with DUST 514.  The is also a dev blog post about the [...]

Four seems to be the magic number for our group, as we again could only assemble 80% of the group on a Saturday night.  It is like we’re adults with outside interests or something. Jollyreaper level 51 mage Zahihawass level 51 cleric Hillmar level 52 cleric Gizalia level 53 mage Anyway, a short group meant another practice [...]

World of Tanks is turning two years old, their launch date corresponding with Yuri’s Night back in 2011. The game has come a long way since its launch two years ago.  I always point at patch 8.0 and the physics update as being a major turning point for me, bringing me back to the game.  [...]

As I wrote about the Lord British “most game designers really just suck” interview, there seems to come a point in Kickstarter campaigns where pledges start to slow down, where all the likely suspects are on board, and now the whole things needs a spark to get more attention. One way to get attention is [...]

The Panzer I Ausf. C was introduced as part of the German light tank tree re-org, which also saw the Luchs pushed up a tier and given some new options. (That 3cm auto cannon is murder… but the nearly 20 second reload time is painful.) These little beasties seem to have become something of the [...]

I fade in and out of Need for Speed: World. In a way, that represents the upside of free to play. As it tends to go, I start playing, have a run at it, tire, and move on for a while.  I think I am at the end of the cycle again.  The current run [...]

The World of Tanks second anniversary event is now in the past.  And what an event it was. When Wargaming.net offers 5x experience for first victories, people come out of the woodwork.  I thought I saw them tweet at one point that they set the concurrency record for the North American server, going beyond 40K [...]

You know, we are burning Jita again in just a couple of days. And when I say “we,” I mean our coalition, the CFC.  The people in the north end of null sec space, which consists of Goonswarm and its friends and allies. Seriously.  It was announced a while ago.  I noted it down in [...]

Mark’s getting serious. The Camelot Unchained Kickstarter campaign is at the halfway point today, with 15 of 30 days having passed.  The campaign is sitting at the $1.2 million mark, which means that it has picked up an additional $200K since it hit the million dollar point a week ago.  At that rate of funding, [...]

I only just noticed tonight what the big sign on the building said on the Seaport map in World of Tanks.  I seem to be on the other side of the map most of the time. I actually backed up my Type 59 on the bridge in the middle of a battle to get a [...]

Our Wii was unboxed six years ago this week. It was at the height of the Wii’s popularity.  People were talking about it.  Wii remotes were breaking TV screens.  It was fair game for humor.  It spawned hilarious peripherals.  It was practically a meme on its own. The previous Christmas season you could not find [...]

Checking the Camelot Unchained Kickstarter tonight and the numbers were almost in sequence. Somewhere, some OCD person is going nuts. Update:  Somebody… or two somebodies… couldn’t take the pressure. Now, will this perfect number kill off all future pledges? Filed under: Camelot Unchained, entertainment Tagged: Kickstarter

Despite… or maybe because of… the seeming ennui around the return of the Burn Jita event this year… Burn Jita 2 or Burn Jita 2013 or whatever… kills are mounting in Jita, the economic hub of the game. That number corresponds with the increase in kills in the system over the last 24 hours, as [...]

Despite… or maybe because of… the seeming ennui around the return of the Burn Jita event this year, kills are mounting in Jita, the economic hub of the game. That number corresponds with the increase in kills in the system over the last 24 hours, as recorded at DOTLAN. That is enough to make Jita [...]

Checking the Camelot Unchained Kickstarter tonight and the numbers were almost in sequence. Somewhere, some OCD person is going nuts. Update:  Somebody… or two somebodies… couldn’t take the pressure. Now, will this perfect number kill off all future pledges? Filed under: Camelot Unchained, entertainment Tagged: Kickstarter

Our Wii was unboxed six years ago this week. It was at the height of the Wii’s popularity.  People were talking about it.  Wii remotes were breaking TV screens.  It was fair game for humor.  It spawned hilarious peripherals.  It was practically a meme on its own. The previous Christmas season you could not find [...]