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, a roleplaying [...]

This is a drum game in the arcades here that is similar to Dance Dance Revolution except you are of course playing drums and not dancing. We tried to record a bit of the sounds on the italk but it froze up on us… we need to play around with the settings more and try [...]

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. For [...]

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 dead, I’m searching for [...]