Pillars of Eternally writing Sheet Music

I’m really enjoying Pillars of Eternity so far. The storyline appears very interesting, pretty Planescape-ish in tone, and the classes seem good and varied. As per the video, the class I chose for my first game was a female Moon…

The First 30 Minutes: Pillars of Eternity Retail

#pillarsofeternity Making good on my old promise to start bringing you more than just WoW, I bring you the first 30 minutes’ gameplay of Obsidian’s new magnum opus, the superb Pillars of Eternity! A love letter to the Infinity Engine…

Warlords: Where did it all go wrong?

It all looked so good, so full of promise, wonder and nostalgia. However, Warlords has sadly proven the old Heraclitus quote that you can “never step into the same river twice“. The Big Whimper of a L-L-L-L-Launch The expansion started off…

Drama-llama-ding-dong

So the past 3 weeks has been pretty bloody stressful, with guild drama upon guild drama meaning I quit Thunder. The 2 weekends before last (one of which was even after I’d quit) were very difficult, and saw us bleed members for…

6.1: Nearly 2 years with 1 content patch?

So 6.1 launches today if you’re in the US and tomorrow in the EU, and it’s bringing a few changes worthy of note. Glyphs First up, one of our previous mainstay glyphs, Glyph of the Alabaster Shield, which had been…

Yes I did, and I’m not proud…

Yes. Yes I did. And I feel dirty. I’m not proud. I couldn’t help myself, but it’s just too good.   I went back to WordPress  b2Evo was fine, and was working OK, but the one thing I really value…

“Get Better Items”: Arguing for the return of reforging

[blizzardquote author=”Bashiok” source=”http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/16285109103?page=8#151″] Itemization and Stats Their original reason for removing Reforging was the fact that everyone was using it solely to maintain Hit and Expertise cap. with those two stats gone, I legitimately see no reason why Reforging cannot…

Mythic: Was it worth it?

Before I get talking about Mythic, I want to talk about our own progression in BRF. With Thunder doing our normal business of starting off nice and slow, and building up to a finish, we’ve begun in Blackrock Foundry in…

@Blizzardwatch – The New WoW Insider

A few weeks or so back, AOL made the decision to shutter Joystiq, which was a large website that had several popular websites under its umbrella, such as Massively the general MMO news website, and of course WoW Insider. WI…

CMS Musings and Future Website & Content Direction

You may well by now have noticed that I’m no longer using WordPress as my site software. This is in the main due to the amount of hassle and grief I had with the previous installations of WP covering both…