Category Archives: videogames

Gunter glieben glauchen globen

Steam Sales are fantastic things.  I mean, sure, they’ve left me with a virtual backlog that beggars belief, and they’ve made me give companies money for some truly questionable bits of software, but they’ve also made me take a chance … Continue reading

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What if?

I think that “what if?” is one of the most fundamental human questions, like “who am I?” or “what is my purpose in life?” There are a ton of What Ifs in life, like “what would happen if Superman fought … Continue reading

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Eff-Three-Arr

Last June, a friend of mine who happens to work for Warner Brothers in Canada sent me a big care package full of their latest games & movies. It was a pretty classy care package and I didn’t do it … Continue reading

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Once more into the F2P world.

A few months back, I tried my hand at a free-to-play MMO, Dungeons and Dragons Online. By level 3, I’d been in some dungeons, and I’d seen a dragon, so really it lived up to the name.  I am given … Continue reading

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Keeping a gameworld alive

I’ve been back playing EQ2 a bit recently. I put it aside a few months ago, after getting a character to level 90 and feeling a bit like the game had turned into an endless treadmill with no real opportunity … Continue reading

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To Heart 2: A Minor Snag

I’m so very proud of myself; I’ve actually made it through the PROLOGUE in ToHeart2.  That’s, oh, maybe a hundredth of the way thorough the game and it’s taken me 3 hours or so of fervent dictionary use. Playing a … Continue reading

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Living In Just One Mind

This is probably going to break me. But first, some backstory. I went through a period of a few years where I kind of fell away from being an anime fan, for various reasons.  Lack of money, lack of time, … Continue reading

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Wii PoP and Rain in MMOs

I put The Forgotten Sands aside for a couple of days while I was trying out D&D Online, but I’ve gotten back to it.  The more I get in to it, the more I’m glad to have picked it up … Continue reading

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In which I try an F2P MMORPG

I don’t think it’s any shocker to anyone that my formative years revolved, in great part, around a bag full of polyhedral dice and a handful of friends with whom to roll them. Dungeons and Dragons is something that I … Continue reading

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Wait, I have a reason to turn on the Wii?

I have to confess that I ran into a bad case of writer’s block about a month ago. See, after finishing Defense Grid, I decided to play through Brutal Legend, and when I was done with it I simply couldn’t … Continue reading

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