March 2021 – Page 2

What If – Old Gear Bonus Systems Were In Play While Leveling In Old Content?

The other day, I read something that interested me at Wowhead. The gist is pretty easy to get to – a player got a Corrupted item in… Read more “What If – Old Gear Bonus Systems Were In Play While Leveling In Old Content?”

Yesterday, I saw something really quite fascinating. Anandtech, one of my formative technology review outlets, had secured Intel’s newest 8-core via an early retail sale and benchmarked… Read more “Sidenote: The Early Retail-Sample Review of the Intel Core i7-11700k and Interesting Low Results”

Nintendo has, since the Wii, been on a weird hardware refresh cycle out of sync with Sony and Microsoft, and for good reason. In 2005/2006, as the… Read more “Nintendo and the Shrinking Need to Chase Next-Generation Hardware – Analyzing the Switch Pro Rumors”

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands gets its first patch next week. Now, contrary to what you might expect if you haven’t been paying attention, this patch is targeted… Read more “Patch 9.0.5 Launches Next Week – Some Things To Look For”

When I got into PC gaming, there was something really great, almost magical about the hobby. Sure, the high-end was up with $1,000 CPUs from Intel, exponentially… Read more “Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap”

In part 1 of this series, we focused in on the expectations and speculation of what I predict we’ll see in 9.2 and 9.3. In part 2,… Read more “Rampant Speculation On The Future of Shadowlands Part 3 – The Remaining Lore After This”

Welcome back to the new, second of three parts in a series I’m writing this week about where Shadowlands goes from here. Some housekeeping first – part… Read more “Rampant Speculation On The Future of Shadowlands Part 2 – The Next Expansion”