Video Games

Second Dinner is a company started back in 2018 by various ex-Hearthstone alums including Ben Brode, who left Blizzard to found the company and previously was essentially the public face as well as Game Director of the popular Warcraft themed computer card game.

There are a lot of really engaging and fun puzzlers, ranging from quirky indie hits to lavish fusions of genres and styles, available within the puzzle game subgenre, and coming up from May 19 to May 23, we'll all have a chance to check out Steam's best offerings with the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase.

To this day, when I hear the original theme that plays behind the World of Warcraft login screen -- you know the one -- I am immediately drawn back to December of 2004, when I would log on to my Human Warrior Marketh (later deleted and rerolled as my Human Warrior Scythos because I didn't like the name Marketh anymore) and run around the Wetlands trying to get to the boat to Kalimdor.

I have pretty weird tastes in video games, I suspect.

Lord of the Rings Online may have launched in 2007, but it's still going strong.

As discussion topics go, a question as broad as Why do you play video games feels like it has an almost unlimited array of answers — but I think there's value in an open ended question.

I'm really not a fan of April Fool's Day, or frankly pranks of any sort -- all too often it's at someone's expense, or to make people feel gullible, or sometimes to actually hurt someone.

For a lot of people, the announcement of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake was their dream -- the old classic getting a graphical update and a story that feels fresh but still contains all the elements they expected from their childhood crush all grown up and dressed sharp.

A game's launch -- the period of time in which it first becomes available for widespread play -- is one of the most important for that game's overall reputation, and many factors can impact whether or not that crucial event goes smoothly.

Honestly, one of the reasons I'm still playing Diablo 3 all these years later (it came out in 2012) is because it still has this perfect gameplay loop that sparks a mellow, relaxed feeling for me.