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Passive Damage and Its Negative Gameplay Impact

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”

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”

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”

Since I’m on a roll with series posts this week (and I have a wrestling post coming later today to break that up!) I figured I’d start… Read more “Shadowlands Wishlist Part 1: The Story”

In the first two parts of this series, we talked about the ways in which I felt Battle for Azeroth fell flat – first from a story… Read more “Battle for Azeroth Review Part 3 – Historical Comparison and Context, Closing Remarks”

(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”

(There will be some spoilers in this post for the BfA story and all of the cinematics released, including the Ny’alotha raid-ender and the new Darkshore cutscene.… Read more “Battle for Azeroth In Review – Part 1: The Story”