first impressions
Global Chat: How do you play older MMOs?
It's always a challenge -- sometimes an insurmountable one -- when you jump into older MMORPGs after being conditioned by modern experiences. To help...
First Impressions: Ethyrial Echoes of Yore needs a lot more polish to be worth a sub
I'll be very upfront: I did not have a whole lot of time to play Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore even though I was granted...
Four Winds: The Artist has become my favorite support class in Lost Ark
Here's a thought experiment: How would have Anakin Skywalker turned out if he had grown up on planet covered in paint rather than coarse,...
BitCraft dates its next pre-alpha for March 31, promising to add ‘several thousand’ new testers
The pre-alpha testing progress of BitCraft is pushing forward, with the developers noting in last month's address that "several thousand" players would be considered...
First impressions of Diablo IV: Resurrecting Diablo II once again
If franchise media has taught us anything, it's that sequels which take risks and aren't universally beloved cause the parent company to panic and...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s What Lies Beneath, the next End of Dragons story, has launched
Happy anniversary to Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons expansion! Can you believe it has been a whole year? In some ways I feel...
Albion Online’s Beyond the Veil Patch 4 is live with ZH/IN language support and combat balancing
Yesterday saw a major planned outage for Albion Online as studio Sandbox Interactive pulled the servers offline for patch 4 and preparations for the...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s latest earnings report was mixed news for World of Warcraft
On one level, the most interesting thing that came out of the most recent earnings call for Activision-Blizzard was how much stuff the company...
Global Chat: Is Dragonflight living up to expectations?
While first impressions are all well and good, the mark of a solid MMO release is whether or not it can sustain interest and...
WoW Factor: The curious treatment of alts in World of Warcraft Dragonflight
So now that first impressions are out of the way and I can focus on other things like making sure that my alts get...
Five things that excite me playing World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
For most of 2022, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was so far down my list of "most anticipated releases" as to be falling off the...
First impressions of World of Warcraft Dragonflight, part three: Combat, content, concerns
Eventually, you are going to have to fight something in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. Of course, by "eventually" I actually mean "more or less...
First impressions of World of Warcraft Dragonflight, part two: Dragonriding and dragging crafting
As is always the case with these World of Warcraft impressions, there was no way to stop with just part one. There's other stuff...
First impressions of World of Warcraft Dragonflight, part one: Direction and narrative
While it's not really what will serve as a foundational component of my evaluation of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight as a whole, I think...
The Daily Grind: Are you flighting dragons in the World of Warcraft?
Maybe the real boat to the Dragon Isles was the friends we made along the way? Wait, no, it was a boat. A highly...
Global Chat: Do SWTOR’s companions carry the player?
Due to issues of pride and fear of snarky comments, most of us might not admit to ever being carried through MMO content. But...
WoW Factor: First impressions of the Dracthyr Evoker
With the second part of the Dragonflight pre-patch live, I have now been granted an ability I did not particularly want in World of...
Palia runs a short weekend ‘player lab’ with a fresh batch of testers
It's been a fairly quiet year for the in-development Palia, as the cozy life sim MMO wrapped up two rounds of alpha testing but...
The Stream Team: Peering in on the PC version of Summoners War Chronicles
The old axiom goes that you can't knock it until you try it, and this Sure, Why Not Sunday sees MOP's Chris trying the...
First impressions of Marvel Snap, an addictive mobile card game by Hearthstone’s former director
Feeling the effects of the "superhero movie fatigue syndrome" that's going around these days, I wasn't overly eager to check out Marvel Snap when...
