Recently, my gaming desktop of 10 years ground to a screeching halt and died pathetically while my hopes, dreams, and Steam library evaporated. While I search for a good deal on a new one, I’ve had to make do with laptops that only have space for one or two titles. While we get spoiled for […]

I am not a huge fan of fishing, but somehow in World of Warcraft, it became a thing I did kind of a lot back when I still played. And I love the idea that a really solid implementation of a game mechanic can turn a hater into a fan. For example: I don’t enjoy […]

In the long long ago, rollback in MMOs were pretty common. Because of Ultima Online’s infrastructure, we saw rollbacks that first year of play weekly – more if you count the daily server reboot that always lost a few minutes (and became a free-for-all once players figured it out. But over time, rollbacks became so […]

While MOP’s Chris has long since taken over the column, I used to write the Choose My Adventure series because I honestly liked having a regular reason to try something new. No, really; it’s very easy for me to coast along playing the same couple of games forever, and there’s a whole world of other […]

A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. “I’m sick of the survival crafting ‘Cube’ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,” author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a […]

The war between MMO players who want to be on the bleeding edge of the most difficult content and will never let you forget about it ever and the MMO players who just want to chill out will never be resolved, for better or worse (worse, definitely worse). But it’s interesting to note that not […]