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’ve spent a few hours over the course of this past month with Where Winds Meet, and I still cannot tell you how I really feel about that time with the game all that much. Or at least not with any level of great confidence. That’s not to suggest I’m passing final judgment (this is […]

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 […]

One of the things that I observed ages ago about Final Fantasy XIV’s Dawntrail expansion was that our patches were each adding one big new thing aside from what’s expected. Sure, a given patch would have the new raid (alliance or normal) and new dungeon and so forth, but in addition you get one thing. […]

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 […]

So there was a fun meme that was going around about four years ago in which an image of Final Fantasy IV was posted as “what people think Final Fantasy looked like 20 years ago,” followed by a picture of Final Fantasy X as “what Final Fantasy actually looked like 20 years ago.” Of course, now it’s […]

Here’s the crazy thing: It’s October 2025, and it already feels as though World of Warcraft: The War Within is completely over at one year and one month after its launch in August 2024. Back when the Worldsoul Saga was first announced, Blizzard said that these expansions would come faster than normal — but I […]

I’ve been trying to maintain a cautious optimism for New World‘s upcoming Nighthaven season, but after more than a year of neglect and questionable decisions around New World, I admit my enthusiasm for the upcoming update was still pretty minimal. However, the recent developer update video impressed me in a number of ways, and I’m […]

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 […]

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I had a major problem during the unboxing of my Meta Ray-Ban Display review unit. To control the glasses' Display, you need to wear a separate neural band on your dominant wrist. That isn't a problem for most people, but I test wearables for a living. I'm always double-wristing smartwatches. That particular day, my dominant wrist was …

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