Suffering from the same fate as Wilhelm, slogging through the French heavy line, I did manage to finally get to the mountain top of the 90mm gun.  Coupled with the increased view range that binoculars can provide and suddenly “L’Oeuf Domage” has become L’Oeuf Dommage” at last (apologies to Mme. Bosque, my long suffering high [...]

News comes of the passing of Sir Patrick Moore, the great British amateur astronomer and author at age 89.  The Independent article linked here and the wiki give a general overview of the remarkable man’s extraordinary accomplishments. As the article states, “Moore was perhaps the last in the great British tradition of significant contributions to [...]

With Fae Yule coming up soon in Rift, this weekend was time to start getting into the spirit.  With the addition of player dimensions (housing) this year, that means just like in RL, decorating for the season.  For this year’s Fae Yule celebration, Rift has a number of pre-celebration gifts available.  All the details here. [...]

No posts for months and then two in two days? I know… So, Rift’s first expansion, Storm Legion, launched this evening.  I managed to hop on after dinner and got patched in about an hour, more or less.  With the streaming patcher, the game was “playable” in probably 5-10 minutes, but with two accounts in [...]

Well, I managed to actually get a character to the level cap in Rift scarcely 24 hours before the Storm Legion expansion releases tomorrow. Like Wilhelm, I went with the full year subscription option which gave you the expansion “free” with some goodies like the “Landslide” mount. After the great pre-expansion patch soul reset, I [...]

It’s been quite sometime since I’ve spent any appreciable time in LotRO for any number of reasons.  I tend to keep it patched so I can hop in whenever the spirit moves me, but the last few times I’ve logged in I’ve sat paralyzed and logged out five minutes later.  Re-immersing oneself into a game [...]

So, I was sitting there Saturday morning catching up on game blogs and what not while patching Everquest which has now gone free to play.  Part of me felt excited as if it were the next highly anticipated new release and the snarky part of me thought “how exciting, a new ‘release’ of a thirteen [...]

Put all beverages down and move them away from your monitor. Enjoy (in its entirety, or most relevantly, from 6:20 onward for the setup, or jump to the money shot at 7:22).

This weekend is Star Trek Online’s Second Anniversary Event.  As part of the event, STO is giving away the new Odyssey class Starship for free. Having returned to STO since it went free to play, it was an opportunity not to pass up.  Although the Odyssey requires Vice Admiral (currently Level 50, the top rank), [...]

Tobold asks the question when will WoW go free to play and how that might be implemented. Blizzard has certainly learned the lesson all good gym owners know– the neglected subscription is the ticket to success. Who among us hasn’t joined a gym or health club with a monthly fee and ahem how shall we [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still enjoying Rift quite a bit with the instance group, but I still get that Space MMO itch that just doesn’t get scratched very well. Something about the long nights of winter (even here in Northern California) calls me back to space. Eve Offline Over the holidays, I resubbed my [...]

Ah, the spirit of the season called me back to the warm bosom of New Eden.  I thought I’d take my so called pvp alt in his wee Rifter out and go see what Wilhelm and Gaff were up to way out in the wilds of 0.0… New Eden delivers, even on Christmas. 2011.12.25 08:21:00 [...]

As fate would have it, Bioware picked me for the apparently more limited beta weekend this past weekend.  As it turned out, there was only something like 6-8 servers made available rather than 40-ish from the previous weekend. The previous weekend, I had rolled four different characters on two different servers.  As it turned out, [...]

Ok, after I queued up yesterday’s post about my generally ambivalent if downright negative impression of the early SWTOR experience, I decided to soldier on (literally) in the waning ours of the beta to push my Trooper on to Level 10 and get off that god forsaken rock that is Ord Mantell. I finished the [...]

Having signed up before 11/11/11, Bioware was kind enough to invite me into the closed beta weekend event this last weekend.  With the NDA lifted, details have begun to filter out and although highly anticipated, the news I’ve been getting from trusted sources has been a bit concerning.  So, I went into the event with [...]

With the NDA coming down on the hotly anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic, those of us who have been as yet snubbed by EA/Bioware and not allowed into the beta are starting to get a better view into the game. By all accounts that I’ve read so far, I think the expectation is evolution [...]

Enjoying myself exploring the Defiant side of Telara.  I only tried Guardian during beta and am liking what I see so far.

Not a review, not really even full impressions.  Just some thoughts after pokeing around a bit in the new browser-based MMO Glitch from Tiny Speck. The trailer is an amazing piece of work.  I’m a bit less enamored of the game.  Rather than recount the backstory of the game, which I think it truly innovative, [...]

At some point I guessed we lurched across the autumnal equinox so I guess its officially fall, not that you would know it from the weather of late.  While other parts of the country begin to feel that first nip in the air and leaves may be already starting to turn, Northern California often experiences [...]

Did a little customization of my otherwise slightly boring Mazda 3 rig in Need for Speed World.  Rally stripes ftw.

Following Wilhelm’s lead, I’ve been dabbling in Need for Speed World a bit.  Like moth to flame, I suspect all middle aged American men are drawn to relive their misspent suburban auto-youth.  Most times the world seems to have a decent population (and quite international by the chat).  It never takes too long to fill [...]