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Finding The Fun – My Surprising Engagement With Patch 8.3

In my recent month in review post, I indicated that I had actually spent a majority of my January 2020 gametime engaged with World of Warcraft and… Read more “Finding The Fun – My Surprising Engagement With Patch 8.3”

(Editor’s Note: This post is a Proustian diversion into huge longform posting. After an editing pass and little tightening up, it still sits at 9,329 words, including… Read more “Battle for Azeroth Review Part 2 – The Gameplay”

Horrific Visions are a gameplay mechanism that attempts to please a lot of masters. It has solo gameplay, small group gameplay, simple objectives that reward skill, more… Read more “Horrific Visions – A Model for Gameplay but Not For Rewards”

The process of designing my self-made game project is underway. Something I’ve read about a fair amount before, and have taken lessons on, is the creation of… Read more “My Attempt at Making A Game, Part 1 – The Design Document and Outlining the Goals”

Round 2 of my games of the decade series is going to visit a title I already wrote about before – Hotline Miami. It is too difficult… Read more “My Games of the Decade Part 2 – Hotline Miami Series”

To be honest, I’ve hit a seasonal writer’s block, at least partially because I’ve spent less time playing games (save for, oddly, Diablo III?) and more time… Read more “A Quick Look at Why I Like Modern MMO Gameplay”

Today, I’m back in the States, in Anaheim, Blizzcon wristband key on and ready! Yet, something strange and interesting – I still don’t fully know what Blizzard… Read more “It’s Blizzcon Eve and I Still Don’t Know What They’ll Announce – Why That Is Good (A Spoiler-Light Post)”

This week, I finally did the thing. I completed a Heroic Warfront! Oh, and we also did Ahead of the Curve for Azshara, then killed her again… Read more “Ahead of the Curve Azshara Complete!”

It was Monday here in the states when I started this post, and since my workplace has some system issues preventing real work from being done, now… Read more “Skills to Pay the Bills – How I’d Manage Skillpoints in Modern WoW”

My suspicions about Blizzard’s patching plan are starting to look truer. Yesterday, Wowhead dropped a bevy of new datamining from Battle for Azeroth patch 8.2.5. Despite having… Read more “New Patch 8.2.5 Datamining – Or, Is 8.3 Not Meant To Be?”