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 [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mistakes were made and the gaming press took advantage! Friends and Colleagues, I want to clarify my words, taken out of context, during a recent interview. However,… fb.me/1242HJyVM— Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) March 21, 2013 Lord British points to his Facebook page, which in turn points to a PDF document, where he back peddles about what [...]

It was Saturday night and for the first time since early January the whole group was home, awake, online, and ready to play. Really. Somehow we have managed to not all connect for almost three months. That has lead to some alternate diversions.  Cars.  Tanks.  Forgotten Realms. But with all of us back online together, [...]

Blizzard sent me a note at some point early last week inviting me to come back to World of Warcraft for seven days, free of charge.  As is my wont, I set WoW to patch, just in case I decided to take them up on this offer.  After all, what else is my computer going [...]

The fact that they are going to make a World of Warcraft version of Trivial Pursuit pulls me in several directions. The first is, how mainstream is WoW now? Ages ago I did a post about signs that would indicate that it was becoming so… and some have come to pass.  There was a WoW [...]

I wrote some about my return to the comforts of Azeroth last week, but I still had a couple more days in which to play.  So I spent a bit of time wrapping up the zone now known as Northern Stranglethorn Vale. I finished up all the quests from the rebel camp and the Nesignwary [...]

World of Tanks has been around for a while at this point. It was a little over three years ago when we started hearing about the game.  We are a couple months past the two year marker since we were trying out in open beta.  And we are about three weeks shy of the two [...]

Video game years are kind of like dog years, and that makes the game EverQuest, which turned 14 this month, positively ancient. -David Brancaccio, host of Marketplace The NPR show Marketplace had a spot this morning where they spoke to Dave Georgeson of SOE about EverQuest turning 14 years old. The interview will annoy some, [...]

…and remains one of the top 10 highest Metacritic-rated MMOs. Mark Jacobs, in reference to Warhammer Online I could list any number of reasons why I did not buy the latest SimCity.  I could go on about EA itself, or the Origin store, or the price, or always online issues, or the estimated lifetime of [...]

Games should never die. If you continue to develop the game and feed your fans what they want, you should be able to keep those alive. It’s only when something really drastic happens that’s business related… City of Heroes shouldn’t have died dammit! That was a great game. *applause* MMOs are designed to last forever. [...]

Two weeks in a row in Telara! However, this week around we again fell short of a full group.  This is becoming the most common story for our group in 2013.  But four of us were on and logged in.  Our group was: Jollyreaper level 51 mage Zahihawass level 51 cleric Hillmar level 51 cleric Gizalia level [...]

While the auction houses reduced the fraud and effectively killed grey-market transactions between players and item- and gold-farming companies that hurt the online Diablo II community, Blizzard did not expect players to use them on the scale that they started to as soon as the game launched. Almost every player uses one or the other, [...]

Lord British carries on, but his Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter project is coming to its close.  There are just nine days left to go at this point.  He is past his goal and sitting around the $1.2 million mark. I have said in previous posts that this Kickstarter project is more of a marketing [...]

There was a time last year when merely watching the Jabber announcement feed would end up giving me a quick fight a couple times a week.  I took note at the end of February 2012 that there was always a party. Hostiles would show up and camp the undock in VFK-IV, the de facto Goonswarm [...]

The Site WordPress.com decided to give us some color in their “visits by country map.” Actually, we had color, but the choices were limited.  Basically, it was red-orange, orange, or beige. The map has changed a bit and we have a bit broader spectrum of colors. But Greenland is still appears larger than South America [...]

April Fools at Blizzard this year is either less ambitious or more subtle than before. Or I am missing something. On the World of Warcraft site, there is the return of Crabby, who was part of the 2011 April Fools. He has some new and amusing dialog and I guess is part of the tradition [...]

My time with World of Tanks can be divided into two eras. There was beta, launch, and immediately after, during which I played a lot but then tapered off, with my last surge coming when I bought the Type 59.  And then there is Patch 8.0 and beyond.  Patch 8.0 was the great physics update [...]

Mark Jacobs and his team were wise enough to pass on an April 1st start date for his Camelot Unchained Kickstarter. (Though I think the whole thing started before the timer on the Camelot Unchained home page finished counting down.  Probably a good idea to make sure it was going strong before sending people over.) [...]