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I want to believe in EQ Next 1 Aug 2013 | 10:43 am
In the jaded MMOsphere, dulled with years of falling subscriptions, shorter and shorter player lifespans (remember when we used to think calling a game a “three monther” was disparaging?) and a slow b...
Thoughts on the Steam Sale, also Dust 23 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
It’s like Valve read my mind (or blog). I hadn’t really planned to buy much in the Steam Sale but they kept putting up games on my list so what’s a girl to do? Current haul this time around includes: ...
In which we complain about solo quests in an MMO world 22 Jul 2013 | 11:02 am
I realised last week that the most frustrating moments for me in MMOs are not losing in PvP, nor being yelled at in a PUG, or having a wipe night in a raid, or being beaten to a mob (in old school gam...
Brief catchups, Steam Sale, and a RPG kickstarter not to miss 12 Jul 2013 | 10:39 am
There are two main reasons that I have been quiet on the blogging front lately. The first is that I’m feeling quite uninspired about MMOs at the moment – my main games are WoW (in which I’m still raid...
[Misc] EVE advertising, Flexi raids in WoW, E3 and the rush of FPS MMOs 12 Jun 2013 | 04:02 pm
Apologies for this being a bit of a mashup. I should probably post more often rather than waiting till I have a few items together. This banner was part of a banner ad for EVE Online on rpg.net. This ...
In space no one knows you’re a girl 6 Jun 2013 | 12:15 pm
Last post (for the moment) on women in gaming. I was interested but not surprised that CCP recently informed Destructoid that 96% of EVE players were male. I don’t think there is anything inherent in ...
EVE Offline 3 Jun 2013 | 02:58 pm
Last year we had a spate of MMO companies being hit by DDoS or other hacking attacks. This week has been the turn of CCP, the EVE servers were down for a few hours last week and for at least 12 hours ...
Addendum to Tropes vs Women: some games not mentioned 31 May 2013 | 09:20 pm
I note in passing that two series of games specifically were not mentioned in the Tropes vs Women video I discussed yesterday. - Call of Duty - FIFA (also Madden, et al) While she wasn’t aiming for an...
[WoW] The raiding dropoff in MoP 31 May 2013 | 09:09 pm
I think it’s approaching that time in the expansion where I get a bit burned out on raiding, notwithstanding having a great guild and raid team. I can tell this because I was getting quite frustrated ...
Feminism, tropes vs women, and what we learn from the trolls 30 May 2013 | 06:24 pm
"Women, listening to anti-suffrage speeches, for the first time knew what many men really thought of them." – Rebecca West Check out the second video in Anita Sarkeesian’s series on Tropes vs Women in...
