It’s hard for me to write about this without slipping into speechify mode; this is Attempt #3, so I’m going to try and keep it light and casual, while also hitting the high points I want to hit. This is, of course,…
I have just finished watching a video presentation at the JS Game Dev Summit, and it has left me 1/3 angry, 1/3 sad, and 1/3 plain old disappointed in the future of gaming. As you might assume from the title of this…
Sometimes I have a bunch of thoughts milling around the waiting room of my head, like an association word-cloud: totally unformed, semi-related, and of varying strengths. This is one of those times, having just watched the latest trailer for the Paramount+ Halo…
My father passed away in 2019, one day after his birthday at the age of 78. He had been a smoker for most of his life but had quit in the early 2000’s when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. It was…
I am one of those who will admit at the drop of a hat how much I dislike awards shows, but considering that The Game Awards is more like a parade of game announcements with a few awards thrown in just so…
This is kind of a “part two” to my previous post, “Wrong Eggs in Wrong Baskets” because that title implied multiples and I only talked about one game and one situation. I had intended to shoehorn the Saga of Crowfall into that…
I don’t really MMO any more. I used to with alarming frequency, and at one point had been able to call myself primarily an “MMO blogger”, but over time I’ve lost interest in the genre. I have a partial ear to the…
Friends, I am having trouble writing this post, which means if you see it, it’s probably a poorly written missive that only digs deep enough to allow me to call it “content”. Something that’s always on my mind is the value of…
Last night I was sitting around, looking through my Steam and Epic libraries for the 15th time in two days in the hope that something would catch my eye. I have not been gaming as of late; I have Star Citizen and…
I could sit here and recount my feelings on the rumor that Microsoft is thinking about acquiring a few million gamer accounts by purchasing Discord for a supposed $10 billion dollars, but I won’t do that since The Eloquent Belghast has written…