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One Shots: Bongo Gully 3
People, I am going to go stark broke this year. It's really not a good year for an RPG gamer on a budget, what...
One Shots: Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got
At the end of a busy and exhausting day of clobbering kobolds and cleaning up after dragons, the need to crash at a comfy...
One Shots: Yet not as messy as my teen son’s room
Some weeks we begin our One Shots tour with breathtaking vistas that leave you an emotional wreck as you silently cry at your computer...
One Shots: Dance like no one’s watching
Let's kick off this week with period-appropriate disco music, fancy threads, and the coolest Orc you peons ever saw. Minimalistway is tearing up the...
One Shots: Every character in Diablo IV looks really, really grumpy
If there's any consistent theme in Diablo IV aside from a blatant attempt to make Lilith this year's Halloween cosplay template, it's that every...
One Shots: Rotisserie Rogue
For our headlining picture this week, we spy Hirku Two creeping around the Cogs in Dungeons and Dragons Online. While I applaud the use...
One Shots: The hero of your story
No matter how legendarily humble you are, it's hard to escape games trying to make you the central hero. When a cutscene literally shines...
One Shots: Time for a well-deserved bio break
One can only imagine how it would be if our MMORPG characters were like the Sims with bladder meters. We'd have to pause raids...
One Shots: Dragons don’t like to be in the dark
Just because dragons are big and scaly and can nuke cities from orbit doesn't mean that they lack insecurities. In fact, it's a little-known...
One Shots: Saturday night at the Sith disco
While Star Wars: The Old Republic's Sith aren't usually known for carefree and festive folks, that is a myth. Every Saturday night, they like...
One Shots: Lost in a quest-free painting
So you're stuck in a painting. Don't panic, for starters. Sure, you're compressed to a 2-D existence, but it isn't all bad. The scenery...
One Shots: When the GPS does you dirty
It started like any normal Sunday afternoon. A trip in the car down to the 7-11 for a Slushee and then a relaxing drive...
One Shots: Welcome to the spider level!
Welcome, welcome, come on in, make sure that nobody's left behind. Do we have the full tour group? Good. Ladies and gents, welcome to...
One Shots: Day one of the conquest
There's nothing like that heady feel of stepping out into the game world for the first time, taking in the sights of the newbie...
One Shots: Who left the gas stove on?
So. This is awkward. I know everyone has an excuse why you were definitely not messing around with the giant's gas stove in Blade...
One Shots: Judge Dreadfully Polite
Sure, any time that I wear a helmet that masks my eyes and makes me look like an oppressive trooper, I stop getting invited...
One Shots: Gesundheit!
I can't imagine what it would be like to witness a T. Rex sneezing, but I can imagine that it wouldn't be a quiet,...
One Shots: The spice must flow
Feeling antsy because Funcom's Dune Awakening isn't here yet? Utakata has a decent substitute for you in Tower of Fantasy, apparently. Nothing like a...
One Shots: Martial yoga
It's not a very well-known fact that the most successful armies in fantasy worlds are the ones that take the time to limber up...
One Shots: Seeking the secret
Hey, when's the last time we kicked off a One Shots column with a Dungeons and Dragons Online vista? It should happen more often,...
