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My New Year’s resolution is to play more games, not play games more
For the past few years, I’ve bounced around only a handful of games. The main reason for that is World of Warcraft, and for good reason. Like most MMORPGs, it requires a dedicated time commitment over months and years. This past November, WoW celebrated its 18th anniversary, and I’ve played for 11 of those 18
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Maybe this will be the year I finally play PT
It’s only September and I’ve already started to think about the games I’ll play in October. I usually try play something scary during the month for Halloween. It started one year with Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which I still regard as the scariest game I’ve ever played. Last year I played The Evil Within, after
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Titanfall 2 is an amazing game and you should play it (again)
If you look back at 2016 when Titanfall 2 released, you’ll see it was amazingly praised and rightly so. But just a few months earlier, the Legion expansion for World of Warcraft released and I was deep in the rabbit hole of leveling classes, completing dungeons, and diving into raids. So it’s no wonder why
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Bug fixes shouldn’t be at the mercy of Live-Service
Usually when games are revealed as live-service, the reaction is generally looked down upon. Most people assume a live-service game means content will be held back, or cost extra, or in general just feel less like a complete package. Most of the time, those assumptions are misinformed or flat-out wrong. For those who jump in
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Now is the best time to play World of Warcraft (and prepare for Shadowlands)
Battle for Azeroth has run its course, and on October 13, the prepatch for Shadowlands will hit live retail servers. A prepatch is an update that comes before the actual expansion launch, typically 4-6 weeks, and includes all of the system-level changes coming with the expansion. This means retiring some of the previous expansion’s features,
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SWTOR 3.3.2 Patch notes
Star Wars: The Old Republic will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, September 22 from 5:00 am to 8:00 am Pacific time to deploy patch 3.3.2. During that time SWTOR, SWTOR.com, and the SWTOR game launcher will be unavailable. Game Update 3.3.2 will be implemented during this downtime. Patch notes are as follows: Highlights
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SWTOR 3.3 Patch notes: Grand Togruta Celebration
Star Wars: The Old Republic will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, July 22 from 8:00 pm to 8:00 am Pacific time to deploy patch 3.3. During that time SWTOR, SWTOR.com, and the SWTOR game launcher will be unavailable. Game Update 3.3 Grand Togruta Celebration will be implemented during this downtime. Patch notes are
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BioWare announces Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion for SWTOR
At EA’s E3 press conference, General Manager Jeff Hickman announced a new expansion coming in October for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Knights of the Fallen Empire is a full-on expansion, a departure from BioWare’s pattern of trading off small feature-focused expansions with large expansions that increase the level cap. With Knights of the Fallen
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SWTOR 3.2.1 Patch notes
Star Wars: The Old Republic will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, May 27 from 12:30 am to 8:30 am Pacific time to deploy patch 3.2.1. During that time SWTOR, SWTOR.com, and the SWTOR game launcher will be unavailable. Game Update 3.2.1 will be implemented during this downtime. Patch notes are as follows: Highlights
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This is this closest we’ll get to a Republic Commando postmortem
It’s rare when developers talk about the design and development of games they worked on more than 10 years ago. It’s even rarer when those developers give full detailed walkthroughs about the design and creation of those games. Brett Douville, currently an independent developer, was the lead programmer on Fallout 3 and Skyrim, but he
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