Urge to Game Rising
I said when I kicked off this semi-hiatus that I hadn’t lost my interest in the pastime of gaming. While generally true, it certainly hasn’t been in evidence for a while. On the Mum...
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Difficulty with the Difficulty Debate
Tackling certain topics, in all but the safest of contexts at best leads you down a highway to nothing. Topics where there is so much toxicity on both sides of the argument that having...
A Shift in the Balance
No more strange blogging-related dreams to report, but in my last post, I noted an accidental balance had been struck. An unspoken accord reached between my time spent in Lost Ark and my time...
*Dream Title Goes Here*
I’ve fallen into something of a comfortable pattern in balancing out my time expenditure for Lost Ark and Elden Ring. However, it has not left me a lot of time for writing posts. This...
The Trouble with Time
There isn’t enough of it. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. More specifically, the issue this time is the fact that the time between Lost Ark and Elden Ring’s release dates is...
Will I Ever Return to WoW?
With Kotick at the reigns, this had a very simple answer. No. Kotick, the man who threatened to have his former assistant killed. The man who when faced with allegations of sexual assault of...
Monster Hunter Rise has Certainly Become an ‘All-The-Time’ Game
I’m not even sure I want to do the math on the hours played vs. the days it has been out. So I won’t. But suffice to say, I’ve not been playing anything else...
Microsoft to Acquire Activision-Blizzard for $68.7b
I’m not usually one to cover industry news. That by far is more Wilhelm’s thing. In fact, sure enough, he already has a post up covering this, written and published while I was still...
The Challenge of Picking a Main
I’ve spent large swathes of time the last couple of days alternating between researching Lost Ark and Monster Hunter Rise class/weapon options. Monster Hunter Rise is certainly the more pressing of the two to...
Looking Ahead to 2022
So far, I’ve taken a look back at 2021’s reading and gaming. Looking back is all good and well but what about the future? Although I do realise now as I write this that...
Looking Back on Gaming – 2021 Edition
It’s time! Time to highlight just how patchy my gaming is when it comes to sticking with individual titles. Despite a preference to otherwise gloss over that fact I very much love having my...
Personal Game of the Year – 2021
I’m not a big one for award shows. My interest largely lies with the new releases that get teased alongside and I didn’t even cover that this year. Er, or last year either. Last...
