It’s been quiet around here, and I only have World of Warcraft to blame. I still bathe on a regular basis and haven’t given up my day job (yet), but I forget to eat and am incredibly moody when the server is having problems (more often than not on Khaz’goroth).

Well, technically I’ve been legal for about a decade now, give or take, depending on what country you live in. But more importantly, as of Friday afternoon, I am playing World of Warcraft legally.
Whether poorly-hosted illegal servers are part of Blizzard’s overall marketing scheme or just a by-product of primordial internet chaos (you know, [...]

Having found a fourth for our Vampire rendevous, we gathered on Wednesday night for a little beer drinking and character creation. Which is to say, the dorks have risen and are playing Vampire: The Requiem. What the hell is that, you ask? According to the site:
“It is a Modern Gothic Storytelling game, [...]

If you haven’t already played Ico, an oldie but goodie for the PS2, I highly recommend you go out (and by go out I mean browse on over to amazon.com) this minute and pick up a copy. The total play time is rather short by some standards, about 10 hours or so, [...]

There is a thread that has been running on the women-dev mailing list (igda’s list for women in game development) addressing feelings of guilt related to killing in video games; it’s been somewhat nebulous in that the degree of guilt felt varies depending on the creature, the situation, and the video game being played. [...]

Greetings from Port Llast (and the surrounding areas)! So much has been going on since my last update. For one thing, I’m now an 11th level druid which means summoning dire tigers (dire wolf -> dire spider -> dire bear -> dire tiger). How cool is that? Desther and Fentick are [...]

I finally made it out of Neverwinter, but not how I would have liked. Here is how things went down: I found all the creatures for Aribeth so that a cure could be made for the Wailing Death (boo-hoo-hoo – if you ask me, those people should rot), having already run errands for half [...]

Hi!
My name is Dalmona Uer, a half-elf from the city of Neverwinter. I do a lot of traveling, and pnts thought maybe I should keep logs of my travels on this site. So here I am, coming to you with my first installment of Dalmona’s Travels. Let’s see… a little more [...]

Animal Crossing and I are officially over. This game underlines why, once again, reality based games don’t work (The Sims being an exception to the rule). I hated There because I could only buy Nike clothing. Let me rephrase, women’s Nike clothing. Animal Crossing works within a framework that is too [...]

This is and article that I wrote last year for a now defunct gaming magazine addressing violence and video games. It needed a home, so here it is.
Shut Up and Play
The increasing popularity of video games bestows upon them the burden of being a scapegoat for all the Dumb Things that people do. Historically books, [...]