Shock and Paw

Guess who just got his Beta invite? Sweet. Now I just have to wait for the download to finish….

It’s happened.  Despite a significant and rather tawdry affair with my paladin I am once again (happily) enjoying my hunter. Maybe it was the stress of being a healer in heroic 5-mans – or the utter lack of a clue that so many I healed seemed to have. Either way, I found myself shooting things [...]

Jaina has a bad day. The cover for the latest WOW book (by Christie Golden) has hit the web.

** Beta invites continue to trickle out – it’s pretty hit and miss as to who is getting them. In the Official Forums and on WoWInsider, a number of long time players and annual pass early adopters are claiming that they have not yet received their beta invite. Maybe tomorrow!   Blizzard announced today that [...]

So big news out on the Internetwebs is that Mists of Pandaria will bring with it a SIEGE ON ORGRIMMAR. Well hot damn. The prime guru of story and franchise development for Blizzard (Lord Captain Chris Metzen) spun a tail about how a lot of the next expansion’s storyline is going to be the escalating [...]

Lord of the Rings Online players are currently enjoying Turbine’s latest update to the popular MMO. Known as “Update 6 – The Great River” extends the Epic Storyline of the Fellowship and sets players up for their eventual movement into Rohan (the next major expansion for the game.) Update 6 brings with it a great [...]

I don’t know if I want to beat on this drum very much. Everyone else is right now and they’re doing a fine job of exploring the why and what for of Blizzard’s latest move. To those three or four people on the Internet that don’t know – Blizzard has just updated their Scroll of Resurrection program [...]

I’ve been following the upcoming MMO “Wildstar Online” a fairly closely since it was announced back in 2011. One of the more interesting bits uncovered about the game thus far is how the narrative design team (the guys that write the quests and keep the story going) are determined to keep quest text down to [...]

There’s a certain kind of explorer in World of Warcraft that loves finding hard to find or nearly impossible to get to places on the map. Back in the UR days of vanilla, hacking your way through terrain not meant for travel was a fun past time that brought with it few rewards other than [...]

Make that “Audacity”. Players have long grumbled about Lord of the Rings Online’s take on PvP, called Player vs. Monster Player or (PvMP). Issues of balance, progression, and fun are as common in LoTRO as they are in any other major MMO. But LoTRO designers have come up with something that they believe will be [...]