» Mongil: Star Dive and Girl's Front Line 2: Exilium
05/22/26 01:37 (4 hours ago) from JVT Workshop
» Myopia
05/22/26 01:07 (5 hours ago) from Scopique
I think Star Citizen is too focused on combat in a game universe that's large enough to demand a much wider range of mission content than...
» EVE Online Fanfest 2026 and the Cradle of War Expansion as Seen from Under a Palm Tree
05/21/26 15:15 (15 hours ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
EVE Fanfest was held this past weekend on a chilly and wet volcanic island in the middle of the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, I was on a tr...
» Getting Into Character In Neverness To Everness
05/21/26 15:07 (15 hours ago) from Inventory Full
Just as an FYI, before we get to the post proper, I wanted to say I'm aware that some blogs aren't updating in the Blog Roll at the momen...
» The Dantooine Crash Site Five Months Later
05/21/26 10:05 (20 hours ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog
» Neverness To Everness – or as I call it, The City
05/20/26 15:57 (1 day ago) from Mailvaltar
I guess it’s a good sign when I don’t find the time to post about a new game I’m playing because I’d rather like ...
» The Next EverQuest II Time Locked Expansion Server, Wuoshi, is Coming June 9th
05/20/26 15:15 (1 day ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
I predicted back in January that EverQuest II would give the whole special server thing a miss this year, in part because there just isn&...
» It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - Life In Hethereau
05/20/26 14:52 (1 day ago) from Inventory Full
It's been three weeks, give or take, since Neverness To Everness went live and I believe I've played every day. If I was playing the game...
» Confessions of a Superbacker: 2026 edition
05/20/26 14:00 (1 day ago) from Chasing Dings!
I was writing about this really, really cruddy KS project on the other blog and realized it's been awhile since I talked about my unhealt...
» Refueling With the MISC Starlite
05/20/26 12:31 (1 day ago) from Scopique
Swimming against the fetid tide that is Star Citizen's 4.8 patch, I find quiet solace in NPC refueling missions in Pyro of all places.
» Mayor of Kingstown and The Madison
05/20/26 02:57 (2 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Valheim – Facing Yagluth then Pondering the Mistlands
05/19/26 15:15 (2 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
As has become the pattern of this series of Valheim posts, we’re going straight to a boss fight. I had setup for the fight in the ...
» Kill Lupercal and Space King
05/19/26 02:37 (3 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Staring At The Sun
05/18/26 19:45 (3 days ago) from Inventory Full
Absolutely no time to write a post today or tomorrow but I don't want to go four days in a row with nothing so let's all enjoy enj...
» We’ll Make It Work
05/18/26 17:15 (3 days ago) from Scopique
Despite insurance bricking, we borrowed a Polaris for a rescue mission with great success.
» Three Hundred Million Skill Points
05/18/26 15:15 (3 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Time flies when you’re having fun… or when CCP keeps stuffing you full of skill points. Omegas get 15K from the New Eden Sto...
» Tron: Ares and Wake up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
05/18/26 01:37 (4 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Windrose: A Fine Collection of Ne’er-do-Wells
05/17/26 19:28 (4 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
With the death of the boss of the Cursed Swamp, Team Spode has finished Windrose's current content. How did it stack up against Valheim i...
» Star Trek Online: Reputation System
05/17/26 18:23 (4 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Star Trek Online has many in-game systems that are common to the MMORPG genre. The reputation system is one such example. In STO there ar...
» TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Twenty, Outbound and Down
05/17/26 15:15 (4 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
This will be an abbreviated weekly update as we’re away for the weekend, so I will have to cut things off early, before the bids ar...
» NetHack Turns 5.0
05/16/26 15:15 (5 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
NetHack, which will hit the 40 year mark next year if you adhere strictly to its origin, or past 40 years if you mark from the start Hack...
» The Recluse Report - May 2026 Part 1
05/16/26 10:39 (5 days ago) from Endgame Viable
A quick half-month has already passed, and I haven’t written very much. It’s been a pretty low energy month for me so far. Ga...
» Making Level 75 in Pokemon Go and Onward to Level 76
05/15/26 15:15 (6 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
The climb to level 80 continues for us in Pokemon Go. My wife and I made it to level 75 back in mid-March and, two months later, we find...
» Star Citizen 4.8 – Because They Had To
05/15/26 14:17 (6 days ago) from Scopique
Update 4.8 is a world of hurt right now, and could have benefitted from more time in the oven. But even CIG, who claims that they are not...
» Tell Me About Your Childhood - Backstory In NTE
05/15/26 13:18 (6 days ago) from Inventory Full
Hotta produces a lot of videos for Neverness To Everness . There are one hundred and forty listed the official YouTube account. They come...
» Changing Internet Service Provider
05/15/26 12:12 (6 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Yesterday we changed internet service providers. We moved from EE (formerly BT) to Plusnet. The transition went surprisingly well, mainly...
» More than Nothing: The Axolotl
05/15/26 00:58 (7 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» What Are The Odds? Rolling The Dice In Neverness To Everness
05/14/26 12:14 (7 days ago) from Inventory Full
In the comments to Monday's post , Mailvaltar mentioned that, since I'd just said she was my favorite character in the game s...
» More than Nothing: The Great Mine
05/14/26 00:30 (8 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» MMORPGs Based on Existing Intellectual Properties
05/13/26 12:39 (8 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
I was recently perusing my archive of old blog posts, when it struck me how much I’ve written about the MMORPG genre over the years. Natu...
» More than Nothing: Rou the Beheader
05/12/26 23:17 (9 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Rogue Solitaire: a TRUE Roguelike Card Game
05/12/26 16:00 (9 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
I have written a 100% authentic Rogue experience in a standard deck of cards. Complete rules inside! Related posts: Micro Hero: Hercules ...
» Head In A Hole
05/12/26 15:27 (9 days ago) from Inventory Full
There's a new movie out just now called The Sheep Detectives . In it, a bunch of sheep - alright, a flock of sheep then, if you want to b...
» Drake Ironclad – Too Much Ship For Me
05/12/26 13:46 (9 days ago) from Scopique
I had a whole lot of plans for owning the Ironclad, but after taking a tour of the ship, I decided it's way to large and way to chaotic f...
» Audio Rodeo – A Mostly Non-Technical Talk about IEMs
05/11/26 14:58 (10 days ago) from Scopique
I now have three sets of IEMs, so I wanted to examine my perspective on why.
» Career Opportunities - Work-Life Balance In Neverness To Everness
05/11/26 13:25 (10 days ago) from Inventory Full
As Tyler Edwards pointed out in the comments to yesterday's post, there are certain constraints involved in designing a game to be releas...
» Learning via AI
05/11/26 09:24 (10 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
In 1990 I was working at the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions). I had just taken the role of Computer Support Officer where I admini...
» We Don't Need To Talk About Lacrimosa (But We're Going To Anyway)
05/10/26 19:59 (11 days ago) from Inventory Full
Yesterday's post was supposed to be about something entirely different but it got away from me in the first paragraph and I never even tr...
» Legacy Level 50 on All Servers
05/09/26 23:48 (12 days ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog
» Tactical Voting
05/09/26 13:31 (12 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Under the First Past the Post electoral system, the candidate(s) receiving the highest number of votes in each constituency are elected. ...
» A Few Improvements Necessary - Things I'd Like To See In NTE
05/09/26 09:43 (12 days ago) from Inventory Full
Something the developers - or maybe it's the publishers - of most of the open world gacha games I've played like to do is poll the player...
» Preparing for DCC — Dungeon Crawl Classics
05/08/26 14:00 (13 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
In two weeks, most of the villagers of Farlenkeep will be dead... unless they can find their courage and band together to take on an anci...
» We Play All The Hits
05/08/26 13:16 (13 days ago) from Inventory Full
There was always going to be a music post today. It's a Friday and Fridays or Saturdays are the best days for writing about music, not le...
» 4.8 Cometh – Interesting Changes in Star Citizen
05/08/26 00:51 (14 days ago) from Scopique
4.8 actually has some nifty improvements, even if the ship offerings are bit meh (to me at least).
» We Need To Talk About Taygedo
05/07/26 14:34 (14 days ago) from Inventory Full
Nimgimli and I have been having a conversation in the comment threads of our respective blogs about the merits or otherwise of a series o...
» UK Local Elections 2026
05/07/26 09:28 (14 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
There are local elections being held across the UK today. Voters in Scotland and Wales will elect representatives to their respective nat...
» More than Nothing: The First Village
05/07/26 03:35 (15 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» I Two-Chested My First New +15 Key, And Other Brief Stories As I Push Towards Keystone Myth
05/06/26 19:16 (15 days ago) from Kaylriene
Since my last update a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been grinding on towards my Keystone Myth achievement and slowly moving towards a ...
» Settling In or Just Another Day In Hethereau
05/06/26 14:43 (15 days ago) from Inventory Full
Here's a first-world blogging problem if there ever was one: new games give you far too much to blog about. Such a terrible situation to ...
» What The…? ArcBrush
05/06/26 13:47 (15 days ago) from Scopique
The Universe put this free app front of me, and sometimes things really do work out for the best.