Monthly Archives: September, 2011
“Violence is wrong,” say gamers, “unless it’s funny.”
As we’re probably all aware, video game culture — the games themselves, the players, and the media covering it — has a wee bit of an image problem. No matter how far we’ve progressed in becoming more mainstream, trumpeting video games as art forms to Roger Ebert, and helping to cure AIDS through gamer groupthink, …
September Survey Results
This monthly what-MMO-are-you-playing survey isn’t anything remotely scientific or probably fair, but I’m just curious what Bio Break readers are playing and wanted to get a finger on the current gamer pulse, so to speak. So without further ado, the top ten (which is actually more like top 15 with the ties): Lord of the …
The Curious Case of Final Fantasy XIV
We haven’t spoken of Final Fantasy XIV around these here parts since late last year, when I awarded it “Dud of the Year” with a slightly guilty feeling. Actually, I’m hard-pressed to think of any blogger who’s even mentioned playing it within the last eight months, apart from Massively’s Eliot. Eliot brought to my attention …
LOTRO: Running with the deer
After a lengthy ordeal involving me, the LOTRO patcher, and a police stand-off, I finally got Rise of Isengard loaded onto my computer and logged in to experience the wonder and majesty of… crap, did it just crash? It did, didn’t it. It wasn’t the smoothest launch day, to say the least. But when the …
Glory of glories, it’s expansion day!
As I write this, the heavens are pouring down rain and the lighting scheme in my office is something akin to “serial killer cavern.” It’s a dark and gloomy day, is what I’m trying to say. But oddly enough, it’s a good day, a GREAT day. Why? Because when I go home tonight, I have …
On the fifth day before Christmas, BioWare gave to me…
…a Wookiee in a pear tree! So on a Saturday, of all days, BioWare finally announced the two big details everyone was waiting to hear: When and How Much? The When is December 20th (or 22nd in EU), and the How Much is $15/month with discounts for multi-month orders. Obviously, big, big news, although it’s …
Quote of the Day
“If your a woman with a scar, or missing limb, you can kiss your romantic life good buy.” ~ Massively commenter The more I read this quote, the more I’m hypnotized by its layers.
Companions
If you were to ask me — and I’m not suggesting for a minute that you would do so, since you’re a busy man/woman/intergalactic parasite — what my most anticipated aspects of Star Wars: The Old Republic are, I’d most definitely put “companions” in the top five. Easily. I know some people are not on …
Waiting for launch? Give us something to do!
Yesterday I finished up the Guild Wars Factions campaign, marking the length of this journey so far around a year or so. It’s a nice feeling of accomplishment, coupled with the realization that I’m finally making real progress on my Hall of Monuments (and can, y’know, actually see said Hall pretty soon). I’m trying to …
