Gaming

Goodbye, Armistice Zones

Scopique September 18, 2020

In Star Citizen, CIG has instituted “armistice zones” around important places where players spawn or otherwise visit for mission, trading, or mining purposes. These places include Port Olisar (the original spawn point for the game), stations in various orbits, several outposts on…

Well, I’m Done!

Scopique September 2, 2020

You are looking at the new High King of Ireland! Granddad would be so proud! But let’s back up a bit. Being a pre-teen ruler isn’t easy since everyone sees you as a pushover. Remember that childhood bully, Cobflaith? She was still…

Control

Scopique September 1, 2020

I’ve been harassing people on Twitter about Control, but since I have now completed the base game (main story mission), I have to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence with a final blog post. Although it’s a shooter, the setting is more akin to…

I am So Confused Right Now – New World

Scopique August 26, 2020

Amazon’s New World is a game that’s already seen some pretty significant ups and downs. Originally many people thought it was an oPvP game. Then it was considered a kind of 50/50 PvE/PvP split. Now it seems that it’s more 75/25 in…

MMOs

Scopique August 19, 2020

The massive multiplayer online roleplaying game genre — MMORPG to us old guard, or MMOs to the slightly less old guard, or World of Warcraft to the kids — is alive and well. It’s also dormant. It’s also dead. Like almost anything,…