What Makes a Game Sticky?
Bhagpuss recently tackled this question, and it made me pause to consider what the answer might be for me. My initial thoughts all quickly discounted, thrown by the wayside, one by one. At least...
Category: Gaming
Steam’s Built-in ‘Make You Feel Old’ Generator
I still have a number of nits to pick with the refreshed Steam Library tools. The big one, or so I thought, was in relation to the filters being ‘AND’ with no option at...
By Now, You Probably Need a Break
A break from all the space-game (and X4 in particular) talk that is. Perhaps from other things in your life too, but I’m afraid I can only offer you the first. Although I should...
Finding Space to Call Home
Something I’ve noted before is happening again. Right now! My gaming interests are taking on something of a theme. Generally, this comes as a result of playing one thing which reminds me of other...
Coming Games of Interest — Blaugust 2022 Edition
This is something of a series, albeit a fairly irregular one. The last one of these I did was August last year, and as is often the way with these posts… The accuracy of...
Living in an MMO
Paeroka pondered the question of, “If you could — or had to — live in an MMO world for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?” Rakuno came up with an...
Eclectic Taste: Activate!
I’ve put Outriders to rest for the time being. And since then, I’d been sort of flitting game to game to find something to stick. Welp… Found some things! The resulting list of things...
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...
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...
