» Rimworld: A deluded rich man’s dream
07/09/25 13:00 (2 hours ago) from Bio Break
It’s time for another Rimworld run, in honor of the upcoming Odyssey expansion drop on July 11th! I’m pretty dang excited for...

» EVE Online Enters the Era of the Global PLEX Market
07/08/25 16:15 (23 hours ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Having spent the last five years trying to fix the player economy they broke, one might think that CCP deciding to have a go at PLEX now ...

» Get To The Back Of The Line, You Two!
07/08/25 13:53 (1 day ago) from Inventory Full
This seems to be buying season. Or acquiring season, at least. Since I last posted about adding seven more games to my collection, just a...

» Cowabunga, it's spicing time!
07/08/25 11:41 (1 day ago) from The Friendly Necromancer
It's been a few weeks, and I've been playing a lot (for me at least) of Dune Awakening. The dynamic duo of TreeTrunks McSkinny and Skip L...

» MMO Tropes: Alts
07/07/25 19:37 (1 day ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), alts (short for alternate characters), are new characters created by a player in addition t...

» The Mordor Project Arrives… In Mordor… Which Was the Plan All Along!
07/07/25 15:15 (2 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Today it has been four months since I set my mind to getting to Mordor.  My actual arrival date was June 25th.  The new 64-bit servers an...

» Games For A Wet Weekend
07/07/25 13:20 (2 days ago) from Inventory Full
I did a lot more gaming than usual this weekend. For one thing, I wasn't working and for another the sun wasn't out.  It was raining...

» LOTRO: Midsummer days, hot nights
07/07/25 13:00 (2 days ago) from Bio Break
Once the “new and improved” Midsummer Festival arrived in LOTRO, I knew I had to shove everything to the side to tackle this ...

» HeroQuest First Light: Second Adventure
07/07/25 12:00 (2 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
The one where an elf dies and a wizard retires and we meet someone surprising. Related posts: HeroQuest: First Light: First Adventure Her...

» Heads of State and The Accountant 2
07/07/25 01:56 (2 days ago) from JVT Workshop

» Politicians
07/06/25 21:36 (2 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
I still maintain a legacy presence on Twitter/X and I follow my local MP (member of Parliament) Louie French. It’s not something I especi...

» TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Twenty-Six and Counter Picks
07/06/25 15:15 (3 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
We are now halfway through the year… and not much happened this week.  But that was expected. Last week we left off with the scoreb...

» Self-Reflection Sunday – Getting Back In The Saddle
07/06/25 13:00 (3 days ago) from Nerd Girl Thoughts
It’s been awhile – almost a year since my last Self-Reflection Sunday, and nearly that long as well since I’ve been pos...

» Thoughts on Holidays
07/05/25 19:09 (3 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Mrs P and I travelled to Croatia on Friday 13th June for our summer holiday. We spent one week in Makarska, which is located on the Dalma...

» Why Does EverQuest Have to be The Way It Is?
07/05/25 15:15 (4 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Last week I wrote a bit about The Heroes Journey EQemu server, why they are in trouble, and why I think their loss in court is inevitable...

» Buy One, Get Six Free
07/05/25 09:10 (4 days ago) from Inventory Full
So, finally, as if anyone cared, here are the five games I claimed from Amazon Prime gaming in June. Or was it July? And why are there si...

» GPT: The Initial Test Case – Ideas for Forward Progress
07/05/25 08:02 (4 days ago) from Why I Game
So how did I begin the first test of getting ChatGPT’s help with completing an old “story” written way back in 2013 as ...

» Playing Against Bots in Warzone
07/04/25 18:52 (4 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Warzone added a  new “casual mode” to its Battle Royale at the start of Season 4. This reduced the number of real players in-game and sub...

» Trending Now...
07/04/25 17:56 (4 days ago) from Inventory Full
For various unexpected reasons, I had to spend much of yesterday driving Mrs Bhagpuss around the Cotswolds (Not exactly a hardship on a b...

» Remember these Words
07/04/25 14:15 (5 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Here on 249th birthday of the nation, recall the preamble to our declaration of independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, th...

» Palia: Not every librarian is a secret smokeshow
07/04/25 13:00 (5 days ago) from Bio Break
If Palia truly excels in one area, it’s infusing its limited cast of NPCs with a whole lot of personality and story. Everyone I tal...

» Darkness Falls (2003)
07/03/25 20:27 (5 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
During 1836, in the town of Darkness Falls, Maine, an elderly widow Matilda Dixon is adored by the town’s children as she gives them a go...

» Mordor After the Fall… is Still Just Mordor I Guess
07/03/25 15:15 (6 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Mordor, eh?  Cool.  So what do you guys do for fun around here? -Me, just before finding out and logging off I don’t know what I ex...

» Why I Write – Soft Launch of Tavernpunk Tales of Ares
07/03/25 14:41 (6 days ago) from Why I Game
This is a special announcement that for the next couple of days (or weeks or months), this blog space will be co-opted to bring you a spe...

» Heralding The Heralds
07/03/25 09:44 (6 days ago) from Inventory Full
Jenn Chan , Darkpaw 's " Head of Studio " dropped another Producer's Letter for EverQuest II yesterday. I imagine she posted one for the ...

» The Recluse Report - June 2025 Part 2
07/02/25 22:05 (6 days ago) from Endgame Viable
The Serious Stuff Not to sound overly dramatic, but my body has been trying to kill me, and only recently revealed its intentions. I offi...

» The Humanoid (1979)
07/02/25 18:47 (6 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
The Humanoid is one of many international Star Wars knock-offs that flooded cinemas in the late seventies and early eighties. Like so man...

» The Mists of Pandaria Classic Pre-Patch is Live
07/02/25 15:15 (7 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
The long wait for the end of Cataclysm has arrived and the march to Mists of Pandaria Classic has begun as Blizzard delivered the pre-pat...

» Finding Solutions to Questions I Never Asked
07/02/25 13:42 (7 days ago) from Scopique
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when I have a 3D printer, everything needs to be printed.

» World of Warcraft: Stuck in the crosshairs of indecision
07/02/25 13:00 (7 days ago) from Bio Break
Bemoaning a lack of time to play enough of a game that one would want or to accomplish all desired activities doesn’t make for inte...

» Thinking And Drinking
07/02/25 12:50 (7 days ago) from Inventory Full
Sometimes I wonder if I even like MMOs any more. MMORPGs. Whatever. Certainly, the " MM " part no longer has any real relevance for me. I...

» Malifaux: Boilermaker takes the stage
07/02/25 12:00 (7 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
Not all of the Foundry crew are from Canada, but some are. The Foundry folks mix metal and magic into living constructs that stalk around...

» A Man For All Seasons (1966)
07/01/25 22:43 (7 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Contemporary viewer’s may be perplexed by a film such as A Man For All Seasons. Why make a two our motion picture about a Tudor lawyer, s...

» Shut up and take my money…what do you mean, “No”?
07/01/25 16:53 (7 days ago) from Mailvaltar
For quite some time now there’s something going on in the gaming industry that I just can’t wrap my head around. On the one h...

» Palworld Does What Nintendon’t. Again.
07/01/25 12:00 (8 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
Palworld's new update does more than let your Pals become their true selves. There's also fishing. And, almost forgot, a portal to the wo...

» Conquest Events That Are Good for Small Guilds
06/30/25 19:59 (8 days ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog

» It's All just A Game To You, Isn't It?
06/30/25 13:28 (9 days ago) from Inventory Full
Not that I want to act as unpaid hype man for Neverness To Everness but damn! Have you seen the latest trailer?  No?  Well, her...

» Syp’s gaming goals for July 2025
06/30/25 13:00 (9 days ago) from Bio Break
June 2025 in review This was a nice, quiet, stable, and engaging month of gaming for me — which is, frankly, ideal. While there was...

» Grab Bag for Week Ending June 28, 2025
06/30/25 12:47 (9 days ago) from Scopique
More on the new printer, a trip to Cape Cod, Dune: Awakening update, and rants about Star Citizen for this installment of the Grab Bag.

» Just Because It's Costing You Nothing Doesn't mean You Can't Complain
06/27/25 13:28 (12 days ago) from Inventory Full
I may not be playing many games at the moment but that's not going to stop me collecting more.  Ooh! Sidebar! Is that a legitimate w...

» Palia: Inventory squishing
06/27/25 13:00 (12 days ago) from Bio Break
It still feels like there are a thousand objectives going on at once in Palia and that I’m making no great progress in any of them,...

» Guest Board Game Ranking
06/27/25 05:16 (12 days ago) from JVT Workshop

» Last First Impressions Of Crystal Of Atlan
06/26/25 16:52 (12 days ago) from Inventory Full
When I posted my first impressions of Crystal of Atlan back at the end of May, I certainly didn't think I'd still be posting about it a m...

» Let's Play Grab Bag Catch-Up
06/25/25 13:57 (14 days ago) from Inventory Full
I know it's Wednesday but here's a grab-bag anyway. Why should Fridays have all the fun? All these have been around before but there may ...

» World of Warcraft: Keeping up with the MechaJoneses
06/25/25 13:00 (14 days ago) from Bio Break
What’s a little technolock to do when deep underground? Make friends with ancient robots, of course! Wouldn’t that be amazing...

» Dune Awakening: Walking Without Rhythm
06/25/25 12:30 (14 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
Also: walking without WATER. Also: Why isn't there a "walk without rhythm" button? Also: What if I just have, like, natural rhythm? What ...

» To Tame a Land
06/24/25 23:11 (14 days ago) from Scopique
I went on safari to get some new materials, and all the while expressed my respectful hatred for Hagga Rift and Jabal Eifit Al-janub.

» Conquest of Pa...rison Planet
06/24/25 21:29 (14 days ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog

» Frosthaven #7: The Edge of the World
06/24/25 12:22 (15 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
Taking a break from the Algox situation to have a seafood snack. Related posts: Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion: Finished. Game Night: Frosth...

» Phones and Battery Bulge
06/24/25 12:08 (15 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Three months ago, I wrote a blog post regarding how I wasn’t going to replace my phone because I was pretty much done with the endless tr...

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