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February 2020 – Month In Review

Another month down, 10 left in 2020, and a lot of things still to come! February was a slower month on the site just due to the… Read more “February 2020 – Month In Review”

Most of us play games to interact with the mechanics of said game in a meaningful, substantial way. When a game removes layers of interaction, it can… Read more “Passive Damage and Its Negative Gameplay Impact”

2020 still feels very timewarpy, in that it feels like it was a long time since the last time I wrote one of these, but hey! It’s… Read more “Weekly Hype Train Week of 2/25/2020”

Something I keep coming back to as a theme in my head lately is gear and gear progression in MMOs. One of the key opportunities I find… Read more “Rewards and Progression – Looking at Content Models from Classic WoW to Modern Final Fantasy XIV”

Given that patch 8.3 for World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth has been out for over a month now, it seems like a good time to revisit… Read more “The Re-revisit Of Horrific Visions”

Another week, another trip on the hype train! N’Zoth The Corruptor – Again: So N’Zoth is definitely the hardest fight in Ny’alotha on Normal, and requires a… Read more “Weekly Hype Train – Week of 2/18/2020!”

Another week, and it is time once again for the Hype Train! Ape Out: This was a surprisingly fun little game. I saw a WoW designer (Hamlet… Read more “Weekly Hype Train! Week of 2/11/2020”

A lot of current debate in videogames can be summed up rather quickly in a single statement – the line between games as a business and games… Read more “Business Versus Art – The Conflict of Modern Gaming as Told Via World of Warcraft”

This month, I started a Shadowlands wishlist series by discussing high-level story wishes I have for WoW in 2020 and beyond, but this is the post I… Read more “Shadowlands Wish List Part 2: The Gameplay”

While I’m not a financial analyst, I do find the Activision-Blizzard earnings calls interesting. Today marks the Q4-2019 report, one year removed from the Q4-2018 report that… Read more “The Activision-Blizzard Q4-2019 Earnings Call and My Armchair Analysis”