Category: Gaming
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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,…
