I recently saw a musical analogy for my board game Britannia that made me think about a related analogy to explain opposed games versus puzzles, and further, RPGs. Let’s have a go. A “Competitive Jazz Quartet” On Boardgamegeek.com Nicholas Bamber said: “In most Euro-games each player gets a keyboard and […]
Continue Reading
The news that Activision Blizzard King has been sold to Microsoft for nearly $70 billion dollars is still reverberating through the community. Blizzard’s Mike Ybarra has released a statement about the deal and what it means for the company going forward. As the remaining lead at Blizzard, Ybarra calls the […]
Continue Reading
The latest update to World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Classic brings back The Black Temple. Take on Illidan Stormrage himself if you’re at level 70 + and you want the classic challenge when it unlocks. The update also adds the Battle for Mount Hyjal to take on the demon Archimonde, […]
Continue Reading
The latest Blade & Soul update introduces the third Soul Fighter specialization: Way of the Divine Hand. The new update also prepares for the sixth anniversary celebration with a new event beginning tomorrow, January 19th, a new mythical dungeon called Substratum, a new battle pass, the new Soul Boost event, […]
Continue Reading
It’s an eventful week for RuneScape, with Het’s Oasis Restoration ending, the rewards soon to be ready to collect and Jagex releasing a bunch of quality of life updates. The change that has been coming to RuneScape with Het’s Oasis is now complete, turning it into an area of learning. […]
Continue Reading
For those that may not be aware, Mortal Online 2 is set to launch on January 25th, 2022. With mere days until the game goes live, Star Vault is gearing up for their last week of testing, which begins on January 18th, where a full wipe of the servers will […]
Continue Reading
Mike Myler is a freelancing RPG goblin (or goblin that freelances for RPGs?), the editor for the excellent EN5ider Patreon, and the Project Manager for Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition. You can also find his marks in the N.O.W. book for the What’s Old Is New RPG and on www.mikemyler.com […]
Continue Reading
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Jan 16, 2022): 5-Letter Nicknames Q: What three common five-letter nicknames have the same last four letters and alphabetically consecutive initial letters? Or to put it another way, think of three common five-letter nicknames that have alphabetically consecutive initial letters and the same last four letters. Which […]
Continue Reading
Back in October of 2021, Valve announced that it would ban games that have NFT’s and Cryptocurrencies from their Steam platform. Shortly after the announcement, a number of games were pulled from the store, that had previously been listed or sold on Steam, citing “At the request of the publisher, […]
Continue Reading
Profane, the indie MMORPG in development by studio Insane, has released a new roadmap detailing work to be done in 2022 on the sandbox MMORPG. The roadmap shows quite a bit of work on the horizon, however the team is using progress bars on the map to show, well, their […]
Continue Reading
