Video Games

While waiting for the End of Dragons expansion for Guild Wars 2 -- as well as Shadowlands patch 9.2 -- I've started leveling new WoW toons to unlock the Allied Races Heritage Armor.

I'm personally the kind of player who finds a game he likes and plays it into the ground, logging in repeatedly to play multiple characters.

It has been a really terrifying, hellish month and it's only the third day of it as I write this, and so, as a coping mechanism I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4.  Yes, that's right, I deal with stress by playing a game where humanity blew up the world.

On Friday, the oft-delayed Dying Light 2 will be released, starting off a month of big releases that frankly boggles the mind -- even with the Saints Row reboot being delayed until August.

Last week, in a way, was about flying mounts in World of Warcraft -- the latest 6-month subscription/Lunar New Year mount is a flying tiger named Wen Lo, and we learned that we'll be flying a lot sooner in Zereth Mortis in patch 9.2.

Horizon Zero Dawn is full of villainous characters.

After Blizzard announced its new untitled survival game in a new universe, we've seen some confusion circulating about what a survival game is, exactly.

So we finally know what Craig Amai has been working on.

Thanks to a very thoughtful Christmas gift, I have been obsessively replaying the original Mass Effect trilogy and ruminating on what it's like to play all three games.

I've been mulling this one over ever since the president of Square Enix, Yosuke Matsuda, penned this missive on the subject, and I'm no closer to a real understanding of how it is a good idea to move away from the model of people playing games because they are an enjoyable pastime and towards a model that says you should be playing games to get a tangible reward.