Game Mechanics

One of my favorite phrases is "ludonarrative dissonance" and I  often find myself musing on it.

One of the features in the World of Warcraft 10.2 patch is the Pathfinder achievement, which allows us to use old-world flying in the Dragon Isles, including the new Emerald Dream zone.

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of It Takes Two and it has made me reflect on the types of game mechanics that I really enjoy.

Rules are almost a necessity for games, but especially for role playing games, where you're essentially playing make believe but you want to avoid the I shot you!

It's here!

I have an interesting relationship with Multistrike.

I know a lot of players who argue that the story in MMOs like World of Warcraft is less important than the play experience.

Is Enhancement just not broken enough to be fixed? Does it need to be fixed? And what would a fix even look like?

Looking for Overwatch heroes like Tracer and Winston to join your Heroes of the Storm brawls? It might happen, but not yet.

It's like an ironclad rule of cinema that you should be afraid of the person bringing an anachronistic weapon to a fight.  Overwatch makes a point out of that with Hanzo, the master bowman, who is bringing a bow to a gunfight.  Your first instinct might be that Hanzo is going to be shot all of the times by enemies with high-powered rifles, but the law of drama states that instead Hanzo will be able to absolutely destroy his technologically superior foes with this admittedly very cool bow.