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Elder Scrolls Online: Digging Deeper
I’m continuing to (slowly) work my way through Elder Scrolls Online. I still mostly stand by my initial thoughts on it — it’s firmly in the “okay, not great” category — but it is at least continuing to...
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Get Swag with my Heroes of the Storm Referral Link
I am upset. From the very beginning, the one mount I have most wanted in Heroes of the Storm was a vulture hoverbike from StarCraft. Now it’s finally been released… as a reward for the newly launched...
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Heroes of the Storm: My Builds – Tassadar and Jaina
I meant to do some Heroes of the Storm guides when the game officially launched, but with all the chaos of apartment-hunting and moving, I didn’t get a chance. But now that life is more settled, and...
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TSW: Issue #13, Orochi Tower, and Challenges
I’ve been distracted with so many different games lately that The Secret World has fallen by the wayside a bit. But this has not been through any fault of the game itself, and with a slight reprieve in...
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SW:TOR: Third Time’s the Charm?
Regular readers will remember that I have tried Star Wars: The Old Republic twice before. The first time earned a hearty “meh,” though I was intrigued by what little I saw of the Imperial agent story....
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Heroes of the Storm: My Builds – Johanna and Sylvanas
I now continue my build guides for Heroes of the Storm. Today, I’ll be looking at my top-played warrior and specialist: Johanna and Sylvanas Windrunner. Coincidentally, Sylvanas is also one of the...
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SW:TOR: Altitis Update and the Power of RP + A New Writing Gig
You know, I was starting to feel like my alt addiction was finally coming under control. I haven’t started a new character in WoW in ages. I’ve only bothered to gear up my rogue in this expansion. In...
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Review: Grey Goo
It saddens me to no end that the RTS genre has fallen to the wayside as it has, so I try to snap up any decent-looking one I can find. Enter sci-fi RTS Grey Goo. I’ll say upfront that this review...
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TSW’s Dungeon Finder Is Transformative + Blade and Soul Thoughts
The Secret World has at last launched its long-awaited group finder tool, and I’m finding it a study in how small changes can make a huge difference in how fun a game is. Really all the group finder...
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My Dragon Age Dream Team
It’s certainly a strange relationship I have with the Dragon Age franchise. I’ve had plenty of harsh words for it over the years, especially where the first game is concerned. But Inquisition’s DLCs...
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Gaming Round-Up: Li-Ming Impressions, Grey Goo’s Shroud, TSW, D3, and a Moose
It’s that time again: I’ve got a bunch of gaming topics that I want to discuss, but which aren’t quite meaty enough to fill an entire post. Let us not waste time. She’s so good she astounds herself: At...
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WoW: On Change and Impermanence
World of Warcraft is famous, or perhaps infamous, for change, for constantly reinventing itself. Classes change, often radically, with each new expansion, and the game’s systems and content are in a...
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Regrets of an MMO Lone Wolf
By now I think it’s well-known that I’m one of those oddballs who plays MMOs, but prefers to do so in solitude. I play in PUG groups when the mood strikes me, and I will occasionally chat in public...
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Many Games, Handle Them
It is well-known that I enjoy playing multiple different games from day to day. I bore easily, and there’s just too many good games these days to limit yourself to one at a time. But over the last few...
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Cheating on WoW: The Division Beta
The Division hasn’t really been a game that’s been on my radar. Shooters have never been my favourite genre, and I just hadn’t heard anything about the game that made it sound particularly appealing to...
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Gaming: The Love/Hate Developers
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll note that there are some game developers towards which I have, shall we say, very intense feelings. You’ll often see me going on epic rants about their...
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SW:TOR: Agent Story Completion and the Switch to Preferred
Last night, I at last wrapped up the Imperial agent class story in Star Wars: The Old Republic. In the end, it did actually manage to live up to the hype that has surrounded it for so many years. It’s...
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Tyler Versus the MMO Trinity, Part One: The Groundwork
I think there’s a rule somewhere that if you blog about MMORPGs, at some point you need to do a rant about the “holy trinity” of group roles (tank, healer, DPS). For or against, it doesn’t matter. You...
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Tyler Versus the MMO Trinity, Part Two: Life Outside the Trinity
We come now to part two of my trinity trinity, a trio of posts on the tank, healer, DPS triad of MMORPG group rules and how I’d really like to see the genre break free of it. Catch up on part one if...
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TSW and Heroes: Adaptation
I’m not sure if it’s the result of boredom, burn out, or pure coincidence, but lately I’ve found myself exploring new builds and playstyles in both Heroes of the Storm and The Secret World. Jack and...
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